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"Dr. Jai Maharaj" |
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21 Dec 2005 12:31:58 PM |
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HARVARD SCANDAL - HUGE BLOW TO WITZEL & CO |
Harvard scandal - Huge blow TO Witzel & Co
Forwarded message from "Srinivasan Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@gmail.com>
[ Subject: Huge blow for Witzel & Co. and Harvard University scandal
[ From: "Srinivasan Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@gmail.com>
[ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005
Harvard University scandal which started with meddling in adopting sixth
grade school textbooks in California, is gaining momentum to become an
international scandal. It is now getting slammed in the courtroom.
Aryan Invasion/Migration/Trickle-in/Influx Theory (AIT) is no different from
Intelligent Design (ID) which a federal judge in Pennsylvania has slammed as
unscientific. Witzel & Co., like the ID proponents claim false scientific
bases to peddle Creationist / Supremacist propaganda, believing that claims
the cradle of all civilizations was from some orchard in Caucasus mountains
in 4004 BC. This date defies astronomers' view of creation of the universe.
This is a harbinger of AIT proponents' day in the courtroom of international
public opinion in favor of science. Await with bated breath for my next post
on true scientific bases which declare AIT unscientific.
Carl Sagan the astronomer has this to say in his book, Cosmos:
*"(Hindu)... **is the only religion in which the time scales correspond...
to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary
day and night to a day and night of the Brahma, 8.64 billion years long,
longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since
the Big Bang"
*Long before *Aryabhata
http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Hindu_Culture1.htm
* (6th century) came up with this awesome achievement... -- it becomes clear
when one looks at the following translation of *Bhagavad Gita* (part VIII,
lines 16 and 17), *"**All the planets of the universe, from the most evolved
to the most base, are places of suffering, where birth and death takes
place. But for the soul that reaches my Kingdom, O son of Kunti, there is no
more reincarnation. One day of Brahma is worth a thousand of the ages [yuga]
known to humankind; as is each night." *Thus each *kalpa* is worth one day
in the life of Brahma, the God of creation. In other words, the four ages of
the *mahayuga *must be repeated a thousand times to make a "day ot Brahma",
a unit of time that is the equivalent of 4.32 billion human years, doubling
which one gets 8.64 billion years for a Brahma day and night. This was later
theorized (possibly independently) by Aryabhata in the 6th century. The
cyclic nature of this analysis suggests a universe that is expanding to be
followed by contraction... a cosmos without end. This, according to modern
physicists is not an impossibility. "
[source: *Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient India
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0802/214.html
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0802/214.html
http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Hindu_Cosmology.htm ]
A brief note on the contributions of hindu to ancient mathematics,
astronomy, metallurgy and sciences is apposite considering AIT's lack of
understanding of advances in DNA, genetic studies. These hindu
contributions to the world of science should become subjects for discussions
in every classroom, in every part of the globe.
See also Hindu metrics of time at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Vedic_weights_and_measures
K.
Judge rules against 'intelligent design' in science class
From Delia Gallagher and Phil Hirschkorn
CNN
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Posted: 2259 GMT (0659 HKT)
*HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A Pennsylvania school district cannot
teach in science classes a concept that says some aspects of science were
created by a supernatural being, a federal judge has ruled.*
In an opinion issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John Jones ruled that
teaching "intelligent design" would violate the Constitutional separation of
church and state.
"We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot
uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents,"
Jones writes in his 139-page opinion posted on the court's Web site.
(Opinion, pdf http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/images/12/20/kitzmiller.pdf )
"To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact
that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point
should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative
hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to
misrepresent well-established scientific propositions," Jones writes.
Intelligent design claims the complexity of some systems of nature cannot be
explained by evolution but must be attributed to a designer or supernatural
being.
The Dover Area School District, about 25 miles from the state capital,
sought to become the first in the nation to require high school science
teachers to teach the concept of intelligent design as an alternative to
Darwin's theory of evolution.
Jones described the school board's decision as "breathtaking inanity."
"Because Darwin's Theory is a theory, it continues to be tested as new
evidence is discovered. The theory is not a fact," said the statement that
the old school board approved in a 6-3 vote in October 2004. "With respect
to any theory, students are encouraged to keep an open mind."
'Of Pandas and People'
That school board mandated the teaching for ninth-grade biology classes and
directed school libraries to purchase an alternative textbook, "Of Pandas
and People," which advocated the concept. The town has since voted out eight
of nine board members.
A lawsuit challenging the policy was brought in December 2004 by 11 parents
in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United
for the Separation of Church and State.
Jones presided over a six-week trial that ended last month. His decision
applies only to the Pennsylvania school district.
His decision would block the school district's plan "requiring teachers to
denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution, and from
requiring teachers to refer to a religious, alternative theory known as ID."
Jones says in his ruling that he did not doubt that intelligent design
advocates "have bona fide and deeply held beliefs which drive their
scholarly endeavors," but he also said scientific experts testified that
Darwin's theory "in no way conflicts with, nor does it deny, the existence
of a divine creator."
Jones: Not an 'activist judge'
Jones -- an appointee of President Bush, who backs the teaching of
intelligent design -- defended his decision in personal terms.
"Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of
an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an
activist court," Jones writes.
"Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an
ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest
law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on intelligent design, who
in combination drove the board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately
unconstitutional policy," he said.
Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church
and State, said, "Children in public schools deserve top quality science
education and freedom from religious indoctrination and today they were
granted both."
A 'troubling decision'
Richard Thompson, a spokesman for the Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center,
which aided the school district, called Jones' verdict a "troubling
decision."
"The founders of this country would be astonished at the thought that this
simple curriculum change established religion in violation of the
Constitution that they drafted," Thompson said.
Jones said of the defendants, "It is ironic that several of these
individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions
in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the
real purpose" behind the intelligent design policy.
In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana could not teach creationism
because it would "restructure the science curriculum to conform with a
particular religious viewpoint."
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/20/intelligent.design/
End of forwarded message from "Srinivasan Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@gmail.com>
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"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send
peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
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"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
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21 Dec 2005 03:54:06 PM |
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This is funny if it was not so sad. The religious supporters of id and
the science based invasion have nothing in common and this attempt to
combine them only reveals the ignorance of the writer. More likely it
reveals the radical agenda of the writer. There are no legal implications
about the invasion theory except in the dreams of the writer.
The radical groups were found out in california when it seemed they were
so close to force a sneak religious ideas into school books. The
religious id people wanted to do the same, they wanted to force religious
ideas into science courses. So if we are going to put the natural partners
in the same bed, it is the radicals who want to force religion into
education. Both attempts failed and we will now see an eruption of anger
just like a child who doesn't get its way. This article has that smell
about it.
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