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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (586963)	9/22/2010 2:40:10 PM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576346

RACE-BAITING DEM CONGRESSWOMAN PITS LATINOS AGAINST ASIANS ON SPANISH-LANGUAGE TV Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez appeared on Spanish-Language Univision to tell Latino voters that their Congressional seat was being taken by the Vietnamese. Rep. Sanchez is in a hotly contested race for re-election against the very popular, Vietnamese-American Republican, Van Tran. breitbart.tv

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (586963)	9/22/2010 3:19:09 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576346

I'm criticizing the off the cuff statement he made about gravity creating the universe.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (586963)	9/23/2010 6:06:40 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576346

"You, you are criticizing Hawking's science credentials??" You have to realize that Brumar thinks that biologists are using the word 'species' wrong...

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (586963)	9/28/2010 6:38:42 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576346

Hawking Put in His Place Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 11:15 AM Stephen M. Barr Anyone interested in the latest pronouncements of Stephen Hawking on God should heed the observations of Martin Rees (now Lord Rees), one of the world’s leading astrophysicists, the Astronomer Royal, and the outgoing head of the Royal Society (one of the world’s oldest scientific societies). It includes this severe but accurate judgment: Stephen Hawking is a remarkable person whom I’ve know for 40 years and for that reason any oracular statement he makes gets exaggerated publicity. I know Stephen Hawking well enough to know that he has read very little philosophy and even less theology, so I don’t think we should attach any weight to his views on this topic. firstthings.com Sir Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS (born 23 June 1942 in York[1]) is an English cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004, and President of the Royal Society since 2005. ..... en.wikipedia.org ..... Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe (Hardcover) Interesting book on Cosmology. It describes the current situation well: the values of many of the basic physical constants in our Universe are critical to the existence of life and ourselves (the Anthropic Principle). Rees chooses six of these constants (he could have taken more) and explains in detail why they are critical. Five are interesting and up to date. The sixth (3 dimensions) is a little disappointing, and has been discussed in length, in the same context, for more than a century. The arguments given in the book could also be taken as clues for the existence of God, but the author prefers the hypothesis of infinite universes. It's interesting to see that Occam's razor, which was used once against God's existence, is now against the multiverse theory, which multiplies entities to infinity. Rees simply answers that Occam's razor may not be applicable at this level! In any case, God's existence and the multiverse hypothesis are both outside science, for they cannot be falsified. This means that the book, although purporting to be science, ends in a metaphysical conclusion. Good reading, anyway, though one may not agree with the conclusion. amazon.com