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An interesting article in the New York Times discusses an emerging trend in the criminal law in most of the American South: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/us/07shoot.html?hp&ex=1155009600&en=3466fb01a2227803&ei=5094&partner=homepage This is a pretty significant shift away from the...

The expanding universe concept is usually presented as the main evidence to support the validity of The Big Bang Theory. Or at least it gives great weight to the Theory. Personally, I don’t support in the Big Bang Theory regardless of whether or not the universe is expanding (but would be more...

I've been thinking about the big bang and I've come up with a hypothesis (or perhaps a I should call it a speculation) to tie together some anomalies and explain how it all works. I'll call it the Zero Point Conversion hypothesis. First, let's take a look at some generally accepted aspects of...

If I recall correctly, Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos" he suggests that space which is lacking in large concentrations of matter would expand at a greater rate than space which is "inhabited" by matter, possibly eventually with the rate of expansion reaching the speed of light. My...

Firstly I'd like to excuse myself by saying I'm as much a physicist as a chicken farmer is a dinosaur trainer. I do teach it at a secondary level, and think I have a good grasp...but anything too advanced becomes as faith based as religion for me. That said, I was pondering this the other day...

I was wondering how scientists know that the universe is expanding. I understand red-shifting, but doesn't it still take time for light to reach us? So in other words, if scientists are looking at starts right now - that are 15 billion light years away and they are red shifted - how do we...

I was cruising the gospel kingdom website ( I had googled refute atheism) They say this refutes it! Web page One small step for God, One Giant Leap for the Antitheist by Dr. John Polkinghorne In the early expansion of the universe there has to be a close balance between the expansive energy...