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Emerson vows to improve handling of sexual assault allegations after students file federal complaint
Emerson College on Wednesday vowed to improve its investigation of sexual assaults after a group of students filed a complaint with the federal government alleging the school downplayed and failed to fully investigate at least two recent incidents.
We can and we will do better, the colleges president M. Lee Pelton said in a campus-wide email Wednesday afternoon.
Pelton announced a number of steps, including the hiring of a sexual assault advocate who will support sexual assault victims and oversee the colleges sexual assault response and prevention programs. He will also hold a campus community meeting soon to discuss the issue and related concerns.
Students filed a federal complaint last week with the U.S. Department of Educations Office for Civil Rights, according to Emerson sophomore Sarah Tedesco, 19, and junior Jillian Doherty, two of the complainants who have spoken publicly.
Tedesco said hospital test results show she had been drugged one night last October while at an off-campus MIT fraternity party in Cambridge and then raped by an MIT student, whom she had never met before. She said she was also sexually assaulted by a fellow Emerson student, whom she knew well. Officials at MIT declined to comment Wednesday, citing federal privacy laws.
Tedesco said she told Cambridge police, who began to investigate. But she said their questioning became overwhelming, and she then sought help from school staff and administrators.
Tedesco said they encouraged her not to talk to police, and instead go through the schools judicial process.
But she said the school mishandled her case. After several months, the case was closed because, she said, administrators said it did not warrant a hearing that would more fully review the allegations.
Tedesco said that before the school completed its investigation into the first incidents, she was sexually assaulted again by the same Emerson student who allegedly assaulted her in October.
She said she reported the more recent case to campus administrators, who again allegedly downplayed her complaint.
Tedesco said both of her alleged assailants remain at their respective schools. Neither have faced punishment, she said.
In an interview, Tedesco praised Emersons encouragement of a culture of consent among students -- meaning that consent must be established by both individuals before engaging in any sexual activity. But, she said, they arent going anywhere near actually investigating cases.
The complainants allege that Emerson administrators violated their rights under Title IX and the Clery Act in handling investigations into their claims of sexual assault. Tedesco said a number of students in addition to her and Doherty filed the complaint, but she declined to specify how many or provide a copy of the complaint, citing the others requests for privacy.
This isnt about us. This is about future victims, Tedesco said in an interview Wednesday, before Peltons letter was circulated.
The reason for filing the complaint is very clearly and very passionately to make changes on campus and to raise awareness that this happens, she said. Tesesco has become an advocate and spoken publicly about her allegations over the last several months.
The Huffington Post first reported on the federal complaint Tuesday night. The Globe does not print the names of alleged sexual assault victims unless they wish to speak publicly.
In his letter, Pelton said he could not comment directly on many aspects of the complaint due to federal privacy laws. Instead, he discussed broader policy changes.
He picked two administrators to lead a review to submit a report by March that will include recommendations for how to improve sexual assault response and prevention at Emerson.
His letter also described a number of measures including new programs designed to create a culture of consent and to support rape survivors the school has already taken since last spring when outcry from students over reports of an off-campus student rape prompted administrators to vow to review school policies regarding sexual assault cases.
Sexual assault occurs too often on college campuses, and it is critically important that we redouble our efforts to combat incidents that harm our students and undermine what we stand for as a commonwealth of learning, Pelton wrote.
Incidents of sexual assault are often highly complex and difficult to resolve in college communities that do not benefit from the investigatory and adjudicative resources available in criminal legal proceedings, he added. Nevertheless, there are measures that we can take that will have the effect of strengthening support for our students, providing clearer paths of adjudication and resolution, while enhancing students sense of control and self-worth through a process that is too often fractured, confusing and emotionally challenging.
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P1) Some key bolts (6) with great gear opportunities in between lead to a 2-bolt anchor. P2) Starts with bolted face climbing followed by great climbing through a series of small roofs and ledges leading to another 2-bolt anchor and the money headwall pitch of the climb. P3) The crux pitch. The first bolt is right off the belay. Clip it, pull on a flake, and make a few moves to clip the next bolt. Balancy moves that force good posture take you through incredible face climbing to a thin crack, some more easy face climbing, and to a nice belay ledge. P4) Essentially a lower 5th class scramble to the top.
30 yards north of Bush Shark Spire proper. Look for a bolt 10 feet off the ground near a large boulder
Small to medium trad rack, several draws as there are a number of bolts supplementing p1-p3. Use caution if rappelling the route with a 60m rope, the rap down to the p1 belay station is definitely a rope stretcher. [ADMIN NOTE: I found that the following rack was sufficient for this climb: Camalots, single set: #00 to #1 C3, and 0.3 to #1; Nuts; 11 draws/slings.]
The Big T is a stunning route for the Sandias. Rock quality is great. I found the last pitch to be harder than 5.10C even though it was my partner who lead that pitch (perhaps 10.d is more accurate), but then again I may be getting old. From a historical note this route starts about 25 feet to the left of Threshhold (see old Hills sandia guide), which is again about 25 feet to the left of the bush shark spire start. The first pitch ends at a 2 bolt belay and is about 25 feet to the left of the second pitch of Threshold. Big T follows the bolt line on the face up until it joins a crack system. The 2nd pitch of Threshhold uses the beautful hand crack on the right to work through the face, and then at the pin in the roof moves left to join the main crack system. Big T joins the original Threshold route for the last 60 feet of pitch 2, ending in a 2 bolt belay. Threshold ends at the same spot, but was usually a marginal belay station with numerous small pieces - now you can use the big fat bolts for the belay! Big T goes straight up with hard face climbing following the line of bolts. Threshold moves directly left from the belay to joint the large left facing dihedral-gully all the way to the top. Note on these raps - the top bolts are very hard to locate. They are out on the point that has a tree, but are about 20 feet down the ledge, and are blocked from view above by a block... the gulley to the north can be done in about 15 mintues, bushy but is much faster than setting 2 raps.
This route made for a great morning in the Sandias. Most of the rock quality was great, and the third pitch was thought provoking with all the balancy movement required. Small gear is helpful on the third pitch. I am questioning if we may have been off route for the final fourth pitch because we did not see any bolted anchor and belayed from a tree at the summit. Climbing the third pitch, it appears that there is another bolted route just to the right of Big T that joins it at the third belay anchor. We initially thought it was the Threshold route but looking at Alam's note above, it likely was not. It sounds like the threshold route branches left after the second pitch, while this line of bolts was to the right. They use the same bolt hangers as Big T, so I am assuming that the same individuals bolted the route. Does anyone have any idea what this route is?
Anthony, The route to the right is Blood in the Water. Which is full bolted but you will need some finger sized cams to set the anchor for your belayer at the bottom of the pitch, in the notch btwn bush shark spire and the wall. The FA party for the Big T included, Lance Hadfield, Ian McMillan, Lee Brinckerhoff and I belive Marc Beverly drilled some of the bolts as well. The route was put up in August of 2005 over 3 days.
The first bolt of the second pitch does not tighten down (as of Spring 2008). I had a nut tool/wrench and it just spins in the hole. Also the second bolt of the crux pitch may be bad. I didn't try tightening it down, since it's cruxy there, but it was loose. Sure made the climbing seem harder, I thought it was .11-. The first time I climbed the route (Summer 2006), the bolts looked fine. I assume someone fell on the bolt on the crux pitch to loosen it.
Maybe someone tightened them back down?
Does anyone know when the bolt was added to the third pitch where you traverse out left? I climbed the Big T in May and thought that it seemed really hard since I used the one hand hold for a piece of gear. Man the climb is much easier now with that bolt. I kinda of enjoyed it without the bolt.
The bolt was not "ADDED", it was replaced after some unknown party decided to chop it. You can still see the broken off stud near-by. The original bolt was put in by the FA party for the reason you cite as well as the fact that the gear that goes in that litttle pod is not all that great. Lets hope this does not happen again, if someone doesn't like a bolt they could always skip it, really what is the point...are they trying to say that they are a bigger BAD A$$ than everyone else, routes are not allowed to be safe and convinient???
I guess I did not notice the chopped bolt the first time. I was so gripped from trying not to fall. That is too bad someone chopped that bolt.
good route! I thought p1 was the crux. p3 was technical, but I never felt pumped where I was horribly pumped on p1. I would give it a solid 10c. The movement was awesome. The bolting was not quite "sandia" style. Several bolts were less than a foot from decent gear, not great, but decent. Most of the bolts were absolutely essential and I was glad to clip them, but I can see why people are on the chopping path. The crux bolt was questionable but the next bolt is fairly easy to reach. The only bad part of the climb is the 4th pitch which is really just a stack of boulders...but alas its the sandias.
We rappelled in with 1 70 meter rope off of the bolts down below the tree, it worked great. I wonder what the bolted line is off to the left going up the steep face on pitch 2? Good route pitch 3 is very fun interesting face climbing and sustained. The recommended gear in the admin note was right on thanks.
Bob, Sorry, the sort of the routes was off, the line to the left of the second pitch is Curfew 5.12+. I've corrected the location of Curfew to reflect this.


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How can God exist beyond space and time?
I'm trying to make sense of this "existence" outside space and time. How can something , anything exist yet not exist in space-time? Something completely disconnected from length, width, height, or point in time....
Is this a "truth" that is beyond human comprehension? For maybe this may be one the "truths" that escapes the human intellect. However there are also non-sense statements that require filtering, I believe that existence beyond space and time is one statement that requires filtering.
Does God pops in and out of existence along with virtual particles? Or is God tightly curled up( about a Planck length?) in one or more dimensions of a Calabi-Yau manifold? Or is this existence as useful as the Cosmic Peanut Butter Theory?
Asking if it's possible means nothing, however. The question to ask is, what makes anyone say this? What is the evidence for such assertions? Show me how does anyone got to this statement.
Please as you deploy your arguments don't conflate suppositions with explanations, for these are not interchangeable. Just because it can be imagined, does not make it valid, or even explanatory.
And no scripture as proof.("Behold, heaven and the highest heavens cannot contain Thee... (1 Kings 8:27)) etc, Please and thank you.
Keep the mental contortions civil & courteous, even artful which is always cool. Let's learn from each other!
"You're everywhere and no where, baby
That's where you're at"
Hi Ho Silver Lining
Closing Statement from Carlos Marquez
The operational word in my question was "how" could god or anything exists beyond space and time?, And the core answer after the often heated exchanges is that some folks believe such a fantastic particular possible yet unable to render a demonstrable explanation -why?- because it is impossible.
The incredible thing is that folks believe dogmas as such without questioning. Is similar to lets say slavery or interracial marriage or the prohibition, many in power used (still do ) the Bible to back up such views and today-thanks in a big part by Secular Humanism- are not active policies in our country. Many a Christian believed that all above mentioned stances were correct just as god exist beyond space and time.
I think that as a whole mankind is evolving away from dogmas into new horizons, faith based or divinely revealed knowledge will take a backseat to reason based knowledge. And for that process there is a demonstrable "How".
Aug 5 2013: The subject of how can God exist outside of space and time has been discussed and the subject has evolved , that is normal simply because if one for example talks about the existence of say a carrot then the subject will evovle, overall we acquire a greater and wider understanding, time and space however have no material existence, time is but a man made sun calander time and space is the void with matter in it , space itself cannot be touched seen felt , its the very question einstein would fail to answer me if I asked him how he managed to fuse time and space to create spacetime by which his GR is based upon.
As for the existence of God and the creation of life to continue the subject below then the odds of a complex molecule as noted by the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle made a statement using Rubik's cube in order to illustrate the likely odds of acquiring a solitary biopolymer molecule. These biopolymers or to be exact biological polymers, which are large molecules, such as found in nucleic acids or found in proteins. Sir Fred then demonstrates by the illustration below as to the improbability of evolution and natural selection managing anything.
At all events, anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik cube will concede the near impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind person moving the cubic faces at random. Now imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling at just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only biopolymers but the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
If one delves deeply into scientific hypothesis one will realise that proof of anything within seems lacking other than they have the dogmatic presence of science dominating. -
Aug 5 2013: Not,
Or other avatars you've used-Friend- you need help. I don't mean it as an insult and forget the thread"winning or losing" here is not going to change anything.. nor you nor me, or anyone else, that does not really happen in TED forums, I gather that you must morphed into more avatars than Cesar B de Mill used extras in his movies,
Does this brings a feeling of euphoria for you? It's fascinating, it may be a new thread here in TED.
Take it with a grain of salt-get help- -
Aug 5 2013: Just to remind everyone, the question at hand is " how can God exist beyond space and time". It seems the discussion is spiralling out of control again(I.e. into an us vs. them, science vs. religion, science vs.creationist, etc, etc discussion, which is disappointing and obtuse). The number of comments does suggest a legimate interest by many in the subject matter.
A proper definition of terms is a good way to start. Followed by a mutually agreeable determination of plausibility, standards of proof, and then perhaps a discussion of "how God could exist beyond space and time."
To start, if you are going to force others to define God in strictly material terms, shouldnt you do the same for "time" and "space"? What is the physical/material content of "time" and "space"?
Classical physics typically posits that time and space have "dimension", and goes to great length to document and measure its relation to other things, but what is the physical/material content of "time" and "space"?
I'm still holding out hope.
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Aug 5 2013: Science -hardnose science is done the good ol'e fashion way , in the lab and the field, ID instead uses lame legislators , cable news, internet forums instead of doing well-science- I predict that it will flop flat on its face. I see it as a new generation in our universities are not blinded by such bronze age ideas and seek to know & explore with an uncluttered mind.
Anything else will be intellectual Laziness. -
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Aug 5 2013: Not,
The Cleveland Indians have nothing to do with it! Mankind studied nature & certainly used events as seen in nature but the applications that you speak off were produce by people l..I've never seen in any classic textbook of science such an assertion "...raw materials were place by a designer for man and all the relationships necessary for mankind to build science..."
Not, if you wish to believe that is indeed so, please be my guest, you are entitled to think as you may...
Aug 5 2013: an all powerful all knowing whatever can be used to explain everything and anything.
its basically saying magic.
not accepting or not having conplete scientific explanations for everything is not evidence of magic.
just because intuitively magic is a more comfortable gap filler or aligns with religious beliefs, its not a good reason to assert this position.
its an argument from ignorance to assert magic is the only explanation that makes sense to you.
relativity and quantum mechanics is counter intuitive.
the universe does not owe us an eady explanation.
besides saying a magical agency can fill any gaps doesnt expain anything, like how it happened.
there could be hidden agency everywhere, but ignorance, or comfort with agency, not being able to comprehend is not evidence. -
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Aug 5 2013: Not,
All science is falsifiable and subject to revision-claro es-
Dover Trial exposed ID as a push for religion-punto y coma-
The problem with religion is that none of the Thousands 37,000 god(s) & counting are subject to be falsifiable or to revision, why? because when you start doubting religions risk the peril of going down a slippery slope .
Religion and Science are not the same in their conclusion nor by methods, nor ID produces any beneficial by-products to mankind as science have
Danke! -
Aug 5 2013: what i find odd is creationist state the universe can not come from nothing. then contradict themselves and say a univerrse creator could make a universe from nothing.
so it is possible if you allow for magic.
if there was nothing then doesnt that include no creator beings.
if the universe needs a creator then why not the creator.
either the creator evolved or was created or always existed.
so if a creator evolved or always existed why not the preconditions for a universe naturally.
its a special pleading fallacy to say the preconditions for thevuniverse could not exist naturally outside time but a universe creator could.
nothing with a god is not really nothing.
so many logical fallacies in this position.-
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Aug 5 2013: how do you know the creator was no created by an even more powerful creator. o
you dont.
you dont know if there is acommittee of creators.
you dont kniw if they are magical unicorns in another dimension.
you dont knowvif our universe is the resukt of the digestive process of some other dimension being.
yiu dont knowvanything necause there is no evidence.
you just propse one god because you are predisposed to monotheism perhaps.
once you invoke magical agency anything is possible.
Aug 5 2013: Obey,
Indeed, another particular point that creationist use is that everything else other than creationism is mere speculation. Science is by "design" (pun intended?) falsifiable, but creationism is unquestionably infallible & true in all aspects according to our creationist friends.
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Aug 5 2013: Not,
The Cleveland Indians have nothing to do with it! Mankind studied nature & certainly used events as seen in nature but the applications that you speak off were produce by people l..I've never seen in any classic textbook of science such an assertion "...raw materials were place by a designer for man and all the relationships necessary for mankind to build science..."
Not, if you wish to believe that is indeed so, please be my guest, you are entitled to think as you may...
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Aug 5 2013: If we take into consideration that this big bang was created due to the density of gravity then it fails to explain how this gravity managed to create the universe we see today for the simple reason that this gravity had only one shot to do it with, what I mean by this is that if you had a gun and a tiger was coming to attack you and your gun only had one bullet then you only have one shot at the tiger, if you miss to the left you are dead, if you miss to the right again you are dead, hence I fail to grasp how the big bang could become accepted to explain the creation we have today and the precious delicate cycle of life." "In other words if you had too much gravity in the big bang then all matter would have been dispersed too far apart and there would not of been enough time for particles to fuse hence no atoms would exist to create the stars or the matter that even we are made of hence the result being no life, if we had little gravity then again the same problem arises, we would not exist because the gravity required was not enough to expand the universe or to later create particles for atoms to form."
"What we do have today however is that the big bang portrays a universe that was supposedly created by the density of gravity getting it right first time with one shot, I find this hard to believe and too much of a coincidence. Further to this one need only think that if this big bang was the beginning of time and space then obviously it seems we have a direct contradiction because the primeval atom can only had existed if it resided in a time prior to the big bang in order to have existed in the first place and we all know that that combined with the question as to what the universe is expanding into have been the biggest thorns in the scientific backsides. I rest my case as to how it would be possible for God to reside outside ttime and space let alone our current scientific understanding that the universe appeared from nothing, the answer is Apha and omega -
Aug 5 2013: Not coincidence,
A philosophical "nothing" does not exists, otherwise you are saying that the Universe is so complex that it had to be "designed" just because it can not be explained any other way, mankind can't just throw their hands up and say "well God(s) did it!-imagine if mankind gave up to find a cure for Polio,just because it was difficult!?
Your use of the word "coincidence" is not correct as it applies to Natural Selection , Google the Dover trial transcripts. What you write reminds me of the Discovery Institute, and do notice that none,none of those claims have made it to any textbooks in CALTECH,MIT, Princeton, Harvard,Yale,West Point etc. Don't take my word for it contact any of those Institutions Dept. Of Biology and ask away.
Thee is no designer just by stating it that it was so.
One thing that I agree -I'm also at awe at the universe-,
BTW which God(s) designed the universe-There is a pick of over 37,000 deities created by man throughout history, and once you pick one then you most likely have to pick a denomination-and of course who created the creator?-bad for occam's razor.
Don't take anything at face value go and find out for yourself to whether Creationism better explain the universe. Dare to start with a tabula rasa and see where evidence leads you. Then let the chips fall where they may.
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Aug 5 2013: Carlos Not Coincidence was clear , you only got to read his first line to see the impossible that scientists are trying to impose on us ? created from nothing ? how stupid is that ? if I stood infront of you and made a chocolate orange appear and told you I made it from nothing would you believe me ? The entire scientific understanding of the universe is based on what carlos ? gravity that also must of supposedly appeared from nothing ?
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Aug 5 2013: That was an awesome read , enjoyed your views , many do not realise that the majority of scientists working in the fields of cosmology are amazed at the grand design and have seccumbed to the conclusion that given the beauty of the universe that there has to be a grand designer. Most obviosly will refrain from speaking about it due to the system making them ostracized should they speak up, ie eric laithweight was an example.
Aug 4 2013: Ok carlos mate , here you are in this thought experiment ok , lets put you in the middle of the universe ok ! there you are floating with as many wishes as you like, first wish take away all the matter before you ok , second wish take away the void that you float in ? ok what is left ? NOTHING carlos ok nothing the void is nothing and only matter energy exists ok, how can you possibly use another wish ?
another one for you , you have won a one way ticket to the future or to the past which ever you choose ok so there you are in the space ship with two buttons past or future ok now press one ok which way do you go or which way do you point your ship ? its the void carl;os its all there is mate no other dimensions , time holds us here and time is light .SORRY LET ME FINISH , IF YOU TAKE AWAY LIGHT WHICH HAS A GENTLE PRESSURE UPON OUR UNIVERSE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN ?
Aug 4 2013: How can God exist beyond space and time? that was your initial question, it leads to many avenues, what makes you think God is beyond space and time ? what if God is what we observe ? if you are religious then one would accept that God is the light and the life ? how you interpret that will always be connected in anyway you observe or question our existence, God to me is light and is also the reason for our ability to sense time, light is time ? if light were faster the universe would be further apart and probably nothing would exist, if it were slower the same would apply all would be closer and nothihng would have evolved, but no light has a speed a constant speed for a reason, it travels to and from the borders of the past and present holding the universe in levitation, its the very reason why we can sense time passing us by, It is important to understand that the effects of time that we take for granted in our everyday lives actually cause a major headache for those delving into its yet unproven properties, its effects are however experienced by one and all which can perplex the most experienced space scientist daring to investigate the realms of its mind boggling time's arrow. We depend on light for everything ? why then would a force like gravity which has not been discovered yet and supposedly has an inverse square law have superiority over light which does exists and has a gentle pressure that in a weightless environment is a tremendous force to be reckoned with and has not only an inverse square law and can be sensed and felt and is required for all to exist be left out of the equation when the reality is that something has to be holding up the universe otherwise we would not exist, We fail to notice in our quest to search for life that we are the children of the life we observe and that the universe has many children, its impossible for anything to exist beyond the void as it is endless, there is no outside of space or time where God resides.
Aug 4 2013: The point being made here is related to a watchmaker a universe made by design, all within is related to life, most think that darwin and dawkins have the upper hand on the orign of life, thats the reason for posting my views , beside from darwins own account below.What we must not lose faith in is that Darwin's notion of natural selection fails to explain the origin of life whilst giving an explanation for the origin of the species which are two separate important facts that have to be interpreted correctly; one must then be made aware of the twisted interpretation and differentials made by those intent on expressing such with verbal shadows.
A Statement made as follows by Charles Darwin himself in his letter to Asa Gray, an American biologist which was written in 1861 and sent to him two years after the publication of The Origin of the Species.
"The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder."
Denton expresses his thoughts in writing concerning Darwin's troubled statement regarding the complexity of the eye:
"It is easy to sympathize with Darwin. Such feelings have probably occurred to most biologists at times, for to common sense it does indeed appear absurd to propose that chance could have thrown together devices of such complexity and ingenuity that they appear to represent the very epitome of perfection.... Aside from any quantitative considerations, it seems intuitively impossible that such self-evident brilliance in the execution of design could ever have occasionally hit on a relatively ingenious adaptive end, it seems inconceivable that it could have reached so many ends of such surpassing 'perfection.-
Aug 4 2013: John,
Darwin's Theory of evolution by Natural Selection does not explain the origin of life as you post" most think that darwin and dawkins have the upper hand on the orign of life, ".
Maybe this might help you: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01
Just stating that the universe was created is a vacuous statement.
Aug 4 2013: vacuous statements are made by theoretical scientists and absorbed by those who believe them, most of space related science is made up of nothing less otherwise the phenomena like black holes dark matter dark flow dark energy would not exist ? the list is endless , the universe has been portrayed and understood due to scientific misinformation and has been made too complex, why ? because its theory of gravity has lead them there ? I can explain the universe without gravity and that means everything, the origin of the galaxies the expansion of the universe, black holes you name it including how the sun shines and even the effects of gravity at the atomic level not forgetting the origin of life ? may TED will call me and then I will send them my book .
Ok Carlos its been great to read everyones views here but we do have alternatives and I do not want to blow my own trumpet here , it always leads to abuse hence why I wrote my book as an allternative , good luck in your understanding mate , you will know when you are sure of your opinions I guarrantee you.-
Aug 4 2013: John,
WOW! you state that:
" I can explain the universe without gravity and that means everything, the origin of the galaxies the expansion of the universe, black holes you name it including how the sun shines and even the effects of gravity at the atomic level not forgetting the origin of life ? may TED will call me and then I will send them my book ."
That's tall order! would you please share as to where we may read your white papers?
Aug 4 2013: Been here before carlos with those wanting to disprove my alternatives, had my arguements on forums which is why I wrote my book, and nope not putting a link here to it, search my name on amazon if you like , I dont impose or imply that I am correct, just have alternatives and feel that its a very complex issue to dislodge scientific beliefs.
Maybe Ted will call me is what I meant to state, and before you go any further I have gone as far as putting in for a complex call for proposal on the ERC website on the topic fusion , so mate yes am serious with my alternatives, check out the global research methods used for fusion , totally never going to work and definately not how our sun shines. Carlos I wish you well with your inquisitive mind , dont give up and hope what I have answered you which helps you ponder alternative avenues, we are here to put forth ideas not arguements of who is right or wrong. -
Aug 5 2013: How wrong you are carlos, you obviously do not like being cornered, that is not what sharing ideas is about, ideas are put here for others to take into consideration, nobody can change a self opinionated individual, science is based on such dogmatic principals, why have a physics degree when one disagrees ? hence one places ideas here for others to consider, thats the only way one can change scientific views, I stated a while ago that my opinions can at times come across as offensive to those who stand by their scientific beliefs, its obviously showing and I havent even started yet, but little light is left , passing my ideas and sit back is that not what this forum is about ? you stated fireworks I ? am still here answering you, have you not answered my above alternatives yet ? no you wont will you ? but you will remember these alternatives point made , cant change others opinions only offer alternatives ok.
Aug 5 2013: John,
Well established Scientific theories are not "changed" in TED forums, via legislation, Talk Radio or cable news.
Hard nose Science is done the old fashion way -in the Lab- .IMO is Intellectually laziness to do otherwise.
I don't seek to "convert" anyone-there's plenty folks already doing that- I ask questions-
Aug 5 2013: i agree there is no well established scientific explanation to get from chemistry to biology, to the self replicating molecules.
but we have all the building blocks naturally available.
and not knowing is not evidence of magical agency.
this assumption of magical agency to fill gaps is similar to assuming gods, spirits, demons resonsible for diease, earthquakes, the
Aug 4 2013: John,
Natural Selection has nothing to do with "the origin of life", You may mean abiogenesis...Is off subject, but ID is mostly a political tactic than raw science, argument from design has been cleared up already , once again & for reference read the Dover trial transcripts or go to DR K Miller (theist) website.
Thanks -
Aug 4 2013: The body is built of an awesome complexity of its internal workings such as hair skin eyes and the billions of differential human face features . Our DNA determines the arrangement of our body's structure for the 206 bones, 600 odd muscles and between 10,000 or 12,000 auditory fiber nerves. In addition we have on average 2 million optic fiber nerves with 350 billion plus feet of blood vessels and 80 billion plus nerve cells including the capillaries etc the list is endless in explaining the complexity of a human being. The sophistication of such a life form that to take into account the abundance of so many other life forms bewilders anyone or any great thinker.The solution and answer can surely only result in intelligent design at the heart of such wonderful creation the spark of life, if then God is the light and the life (and I make a point that I question him not) then I must surely be the only one here on earth at this moment understanding his mind. Molecules are found to be so small that a mere average 1/4 teaspoon of tap water contains on average 1024 molecules which vary from the very simple to the very complex. Any given simple molecule will consist of only a few mere bonded atoms, an example being as found in water itself being two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. A complex molecule of protein will on average contain 50,000 amino acids or chains of simplified molecules. The point being made here is that when one is intent on pushing natural selection and evolution as the origin of life then the verbal shadows being vomited to overcome the watchmaker seems to always smother the true impact of the complexity of life not just on the simplest molecule but dares to even attack the most complex molecule due to avoiding their true significance of their existence, the odds of a complex molecule arising from evolution or natural selection are never mentioned or questioned for the answers would surely bury the likes of Darwin or Dawkins.
Aug 4 2013: Its explained by evolution. You can disagree with science if you want, that still does not make design the default explanation just because the human mind and knowledge is limited and struggles to grasdp the complexities of lifevasnd the universe.
Just becasuse there is complexity that baffles our mammalian brain is not evidenced of design and agency.
It is apparently natural for humans to assume agency where there is no evidence, but we are like dogs barking at the wind, or humans assuming spirits or gods are behind disease and other things we did not under stand in the past.
The chance argument is bunk.
No time to respond further right now.-
Aug 5 2013: No but the case for a grand designer carries the default answer due to the level of complexiety required for life to form, The God of creation is also the light and the life of which you depend upon to breathe and eat and enjoy his creation. Proof can only reside in ones faith , thats all that matters to God,
Aug 4 2013: The vastness of the universe is awesome, our planet being a mere speck filled with an abundance of life of all varieties has to originate from a mechanism that not only will seem to result in being highly dubious and on universal scales but originating from a source that one would surely find themselves heading direct to the local nuthouse for the comprehension of such a thought backed by an accountable discovery would be extremely too much for the human mind to sustain and handle, it is then that mankind will realize the awesome variety of watches, it is then that mankind will observe the abundance of potential origins of life , it is then that mankind will know of his maker his creator his watchmaker the light and the life our one and only omnipotent God who would then deservingly have the right to revel in his glory.
If one considers the complexity of molecules and cells then the chances of two of these extremely very simple things evolving to a state whereby one would then have a feasible argument with natural selection and evolution to contest the origin of life originating from a watchmaker then consider the following process and information.
A single drop of blood contains 35,000,000 red blood cells.
A single red blood cell contains 280,000,000 hemoglobin molecules and each molecule containing 10,000 atoms.
An average single man contains 27,000,000,000,000 red blood cells.-
Aug 5 2013: the universe is complex so therefore god is poor logic and not based on evidence.
what would a universe without a designer look like.
what is the probability of a being existing capable of creating a complex universe like this.
there is no way to work out meaningful probabilities if no basis.
the probability your parents had you is near impossible. if they had another million offspring its near impossible a gentic match would occur. yet here you are.
part of this may be the incomorehensibility of the universe being inappropriately plugged with agency.
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Aug 4 2013: the designed for life universe assertion ignores we dont find much life in the universe we observe. if designed for life its a poor design as 99.99% of the universe is inhospitable to life.
and life survives by eating and killing other life. great design.
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Aug 5 2013: asserting the universe is designed is not proof.
its complexity is not evidence.
i suggest jumping to magical agency is poor logic and not evidence based no matter how smart you are.
there is no direct evidence that a universe creator exists. it is usually an unverifable construct.
assuming agency because no other expkanation makes sense to you is not a compelling argument.
at best we dont know if agency was involved.
Aug 4 2013: First of all, it's one thing to acknowledge the timeless, and another to fill it with gods. I'm only going to address the former here. I know everybody enjoys the technical twists and turns, but I feel something essential is being lost in fixating on them.
To cover the technical, I recommend reading a webpage called -- the theory of relativity in words of four letters or less. After you read it, if you would, consider,
isn't it surprising that scientists are so averse to acknowledge a timeless realm that science itself discovered and verified?
In my responses and responses to responders to Sam Harris's proposal to mix up morality and science, as well as Daniel Dennett's discussion of dangerous memes, I hope you find some helpful elucidation as well. Scientists with an agenda have turned science into a hyper-religion claiming to understand everything. This is very unscientific. Even religion doesn't claim to offer a hole free scheme, just nodes of a constellation. Hole free. How suffocating. This isn't science itself. Science is naturally humble. Sad that those who don't doubt their views on both sides are the ones whose voices get heard. More of the religious doubt in faith than doubters doubt their doubt. Whoever is so sure is, frankly, an idiot.
Chinese philosophy is useful here. Read Lao Tzu. I intuit constantly that I don't know or see everything. If we are beaten over the head with admonishments against these intuitions, they go away, but all the world's wisdom asks them to stay. Clearly we don't and can't know everything. The unknown or yin (the feminine hole, versus the yang, the masculine matter) is equally operative in our experience. The idea that -- if right now we can't touch it or see it, it doesn't exist -- isn't that terribly hubristic, when reason and again, even science, have verified that space and time are very crude constructs used to reduce the world to something we think we can control. -
Aug 4 2013: Friends,
Once again Thank you for participating in this thread-what a ride this was!-Thank you for the learning experience!
Thanks again to TED for providing & monitoring the forum.
Let's keep exploring,discovering, & questioning everything! I urge all of us to liberate ourselves from the cultural frame of reference that fostered our thought and look at the broader context from a scientific & historical point of view and watch the scenery as it changes-widescreen- and the "sandbox" gets a bit larger.
See ya around.
Thanks Again to Everyone! -
Aug 4 2013: Ross,
I notice that the talk of Dr. Gerald Schroeder forms the corner stone of your posts. I like to share with some reflections.
A scientist, particularly one with a religious commitment, isn't expected to always behave and think scientifically and some scientific workers still bear medieval mindset. Persons of this sort have psychological drives, emotional tendencies and a legacy of theistic programming that decelerate the horses of reason and logic. A bench mark is that these people can't get along with uncertainties/unanswered questions (as though one has to decipher all ultimate puzzles in one's life time) and thus feel an urge to accept absolute, final, though irrational, answers to find personal peace, tranquility and comfort. These non-scientific drives make some smart people say very stupid things and commit gross errors.
It is like the example of that scientist who was attending a conference on smoking and cancer with a cigarette in his mouth and when he was asked why he said "I know that what I do is non-logical but I can't do otherwise".
On the necessity of ethics and honesty I completely agree with you and this also points to the fact that acquiring intelligence or talent in certain discipline doesn't guarantee personal maturity or foster humanitarian attitudes. These aspects represent other traits of the human personality (note how a genius like Newton was actually an aggressive, revengeful man and participated actively in anti-Catholic politics) -
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Aug 4 2013: Right...but Greek and Babylonian observations of celestial phenomenon is a form of science. One could say that there observations are a part of theology, however, they had no rational process with which they could verify supernatural claims. Science and theism should never mix. One deals with observation, hypothesis, and truth and the other deals with mysticism. When the two fields mix we end up with people, such as Schroeder, who think that verified facts and superficial insights can verify the supernatural. As a modern scientific society, we have no excuse to allow this to happen. Ancient people had little to no understanding of the universe so they had no option but to turn to spirituality, theism, and religion. It's time society grows up and accepts its fallacies.


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William Johnson, chief executive of H.J. Heinz Co. , could walk away from the ketchup giant with more than $200 million if he leaves when its new owners take control.
The total would consist of a $56 million "golden parachute" including bonus payments and other items, $57 million in pension and deferred compensation and $99.7 million of Heinz shares that Mr. Johnson owns or controls, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday.
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"The payments reflect Mr. Johnson's success in creating billions of dollars in shareholder value over his successful 15-year tenure as president and CEO," the Heinz spokesman said. "This success includes delivering total shareholder returns of 177% since 2006 and the 19% premium to Heinz's all-time high share price that all Heinz shareholders will receive in the merger." The spokesman said some of the compensation reflects equity Mr. Johnson earned over his 30-year career at Heinz.
Under the deal terms, Heinz will fetch $72.50 a share in cash, a 20% premium to its closing price the day before the merger was announced on Feb. 14. Heinz was an appealing acquisition due to the strength of its brands and its global presence, 3G said when the deal was announced.
The SEC document filed late Monday laid out in more detail how the transaction transpired. In early December 2012, Jorge Paulo Lemann, partner and co-founder of 3G Capital, met with Mr. Buffett and proposed that they jointly acquire Heinz.
On Dec. 13, a financial adviser to 3G Capital called Mr. Johnson and requested a meeting between him and 3G. Mr. Johnson met with Mr. Lemann and Alexandre Behring, managing partner of 3GCapital, for dinner on Dec. 18, but no deal was proposed. It wasn't until Jan. 10, during a meeting in Pittsburgh, that Mr. Behring told Mr. Johnson that 3G Capital, together with Berkshire Hathaway, was interested in discussing a potential acquisition of Heinz.
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Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are expecting another baby boy.
The couple, whose son Noah will celebrate his first birthday on September 27, are reportedly thrilled after doctors confirmed that the 27-year-old Fox is pregnant with another little boy.
A source told In Touch Weekly magazine that the brunette beauty and the 'Anger Management' actor "found out earlier this month," adding: "They're both really excited!"
Former Beverly Hills 90210 star Austin Green recently admitted he has "no idea" how he and his movie star wife will manage two babies.
"I do whatever she asks for and I say yes no matter what it may be! She's doing great," he said. "She did great the first time around, but I wouldn't wish the experience on anybody! I couldn't do it! I couldn't make a baby, it's unbelievable!"
Austin Green also admitted they are not sure how they will juggle two babies, as well as his 11-year-old son Kassius. Kassius is Austin Green's child from a previous relationship.
He said: "I have to say, we honestly have no idea and we discuss it daily and think, 'How are we going to do this?' I think we'll just see when it happens. People do it all the time."
"I'm [just] hoping for a healthy baby," he added.
Fox is currently filming the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles re-boot and remained tight-lipped about her pregnancy until last month so that it didn't interfere with her work.
The couple first started dating in 2004 and tied the knot in June 2010.