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The Principle

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Could Earth be not only the unique and privileged planet that gave birth and protection to life but one that occupies a significant place in the universe. A place denied by one of the most revered principles in science: the Copernican Principle.

Nicholas Copernicus was a great scientist who is credited with destroying the once assumed position of the earth at the centre of everything. He proposed the sun as being the axis around which everything revolved. One of the greatest principles of science is the Copernican Principle. It stands as a major pillar of modern science. A view of the cosmos once based on biblical principles has long since rid itself of the thought that God had made everything and placed the earth at its centre. Modern cosmology assumes the Copernican principle, which observes that the universe appears the same in all directions from the vantage point of Earth. Once this is accepted then we can also infer that the universe, seen on the large scale, is much the same everywhere. In other words a centrally placed object becomes meaningless, since there is no centre. The Earth and its Sun and its galaxy are no more significant than any of the other countless billions of galaxies stars and planets. In the overall scheme of things we are just as Carl Sagan famously described us: “a pale blue dot” in a vast arena. His comment was made on the basis of a photo taken from Voyager 1 on February 14th 1990. His speech is worth hearing.

 

 

If you found this video online you would see the following hand written comment just beneath the picture of Sagan. It reads: “In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” That is a very profound and pin point accurate remark. To explain the apple pie we must first explain the universe which allows the ingredients to exist, be selected and gathered, the pie to be put together and then baked for the requisite time. None of this is simple or easy to explain. The reason being that the pie requires a human to do all the actions necessary. And a human, like the universe  is believed to have evolved by chance. Design and purpose are naturally ruled out in the case of the apple pie’s maker,  but naturally ruled in for the apple pie. How so and why? Good questions!

Between them, Copernicus, Sagan, and the many others during the interim reduced the earth to just a microdot on a stage so vast that no-one can accurately calculate it. In summary the Copernican Principle states that humans are not privileged observers of the universe. In other words the principle has been used to put the earth in its very modest place. And alongside this assumption there was another; God as Creator of the universe was deposed leaving a great void soon filled firstly by scepticism regarding first causes and secondly the rise of atheism in all scientific disciplines. It may come as a surprise that atheism is a belief system, no different to any other. That it holds its place as being above criticism and having ended superstition is a script written essentially in the same language as religious texts by secular priests and scribes like Dawkins, Dennett and Nye.  In my view Copernicus has been cheated, a great man used as an instrument to advance an atheistic, godless view of science. Why? so we can be told that we are nothing much, neither favoured nor blessed; we just got lucky in a celestial sweepstake. There are however problems, the first being Copernicus himself. Here are a few quotes which suggest he was a devout believer in God,  and he had a virtue rarely seen and heard nowadays: humility.

“For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

“To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High…”

“The universe was built for us by the best and most orderly workman of all.”

“How exceedingly fine is the godlike work of the best and greatest artist.”

A workman has practical knowledge of building and creating and an artist has an appreciation of beauty and the capacity to create it in a vast array of mediums. Copernicus uses the words workman and artist with reference to God. At the conclusion of God’s creative acts it is said He rested from his work: looked at it and declared it as very good. It has taken modern evolutionary science and atheist philosophers to study all of creation and attribute it to blind, random, purposeless, directionless chance. While biologists, zoologists, anthropologists, geologists endorse this view, many mathematicians and physicists look at the evidence in the heavens and its governing laws and call it bewilderingly fine tuned; almost as if we humans were the recipients of a Goldilocks experience. Gifted a habitable planet like earth so that life in all its abundance and variety could live upon it in a fully functioning, mutually beneficial Eco system. One only made possible by a seemingly unique wrap around atmosphere. If Copernicus had been left alone to formulate the principle which bears his name it may have read very differently.

Big news that hit the headlines a couple of years ago and which for a while rocked the scientific world has become far less public of late. Its initial reverberations tossed the cosmological principle around causing consternation among cosmologists and even theoreticians like Lawrence Krauss. This unorthodox threat was dramatically described as the Axis of Evil. It involved space probe data readings for what is called the Cosmic Microwave Background. What is believed to be the residual afterglow from the initial Big Bang. This vast explosion of something out of nothing is supposed to have kicked the entire universe into being. This theory came to prominence in the late 1920’s. Then came the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) a NASA Explorer mission that launched in June 2001. Other probes followed around the same time, including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey which mapped the visible stars seen from the Earth and revealed that we seemed to be at, or near the axis or centre of the known universe.  This extremely unwelcome discovery, the affirmation of galaxy mapping over two decades seemed to revise modern science’s view that the Earth is nothing special regarding its location.

NASA’s Planck probe which began in 2009 was able to fully map an image of the known universe. One NASA picture showed an arrow at the bottom left of a digitally enhanced galaxy map pointing out that the Earth is at the centre of everything, which harmonised with the Sloan Survey which showed galaxies seemed to be a meticulously aligned, in a loose form of geometric web around Earth. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey image was published on the cover of the New Scientist magazine a few years ago. I cannot show the image for copyright reasons.  The photo showed a huge array of galaxy clusters arranged in a clear pattern of concentric rings around a centre, at which point was said to be the earth. The following is from Wikipedia.

“The “Axis of Evil” is a name given to an anomaly in astronomical observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The anomaly appears to give the plane of the Solar System and hence the location of Earth a greater significance than might be expected by chance, a result which appears to run counter to expectations from the Copernican Principle.

This is all much too complex for me to describe, so I will introduce the response of Lawrence Krauss to explain it all in measured scientific language devoid of emotion and hype. Or to be honest, loaded with emotion and hype.

He is quoted as follows in a 2006 Edge.org article:

“But when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That’s crazy. We’re looking out at the whole universe. There’s no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun – the plane of the earth around the sun – the ecliptic. That would say we are truly the centre of the universe.”

The Axis of Evil demonstrated many strange and unaccountable alignments relating to the ecliptic, the Earth along its equator and on its axis which would put the Earth near the centre of the known universe. All of this seems to indicate that there is a level of design involved which goes beyond what can easily be explained, other than by God of course. All these problems were dealt with in the classic manner. Close down the debate, never mention it again and hide the entire matter under more pressing and fresh news. This procedure is well known in politics, bury a contentious issue by releasing it on a news day when something dramatic is happening elsewhere. I doubt if Krauss even thinks about the Axis of Evil anymore, let alone has nightmares about it.

If you want more information about the annoyance caused by the centrality of the earth controversy then look up Edwin Hubble, Red Shifts and his reaction to the fact that everything he observed through his telescope seemed to be moving away from the Earth at great speed. He described this as “intolerable” and a “horror”. A very strange reaction to your own data. Please check it out on the Internet. But in brief, Hubble found evidence that all galaxies were moving away from us and that the universe was expanding. This was observed as a red shift in a galaxy’s or in a quasars spectrum. The further away the galaxy the greater the wavelength red-shift. This led to the doctrine that these red-shifted galaxies were speeding away from us faster than those located closer to us. The greater the red shift the greater the velocity and distance. However, the fact that everything seemed to going away from our earth-bound viewpoint, from any direction you pointed your telescope was disconcerting. To a simple person it looked like evidence for us being in a central location.

AND THAT CANNOT BE GIVEN CREDENCE!

 

Is a Problem Less of a Problem if We Ignore It?

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This article highlights two areas of confusion and both are problematic.

The LGBTQ issue is a problem. People of my generation find it difficult to adapt because it transgresses every concept of normality we were taught both at home and at school. Primarily by people we trusted: those in authority, parents and teachers. To many of us this confusion over sexual identity is madness in the truest sense of the word. A partly contrived problem, concerning a tiny minority of the population who have gathered a prominence and momentum, hyped up and out of all proportion to its real significance. In saying that I am not attempting to minimise the impact this has on individuals. I think that should be taken seriously. Those enduring gender confusion must be treated with the same respect and kindness and skill as any other person finding life difficult. But if a largely psychological problem, gender confusion was designated a medical disorder before changed by political pressure to the less loaded term: dysphoria. When I see it driven to near the top of our political and social concerns by ideologues who distort reality, I along with many others get concerned. I will not go on about it as other articles deal with the matter in more detail. This is just a curtain raiser and an introduction. The issue I believe is one of identification, and not so much of gender. We have a problem that ought to be faced head on, but we cannot do that for reasons which are close to applying gagging orders against those of us who would say stop.  Look at the whole thing again from the beginning. Examine its roots and its history and ask real questions about whether or not gender reassignment therapy, puberty blocking chemicals for adolescents, and surgery when requested are appropriate responses to what may well be, as suggested above,caused by other factors which may even be as shallow as peer pressure or the latest celebrity endorsed fashion. It is now known that all sorts of pressures are being applied, pushing troubled young people, some autistic, into taking life changing decisions.

Hate crimes have been introduced to the political and social arena, and they pose a threat to anyone brave or stupid enough to express concern, criticism or just plain old fashioned opinions. Two thousand years ago these new laws would have had a different appearance. Like a pride of hungry lions circling a huddled group of persecuted dissidents. Those who would not fall to their knees and bow to the craziness and corruption of imperial rule. Today those who want to protest against so called progressive trends feel afraid. And that is not an exaggerated fear and nor is it unwarranted.

Below is a talk given to a gathering of the concerned in Canada. The speaker lays out the issue clearly, calmly and with authority.

 

 

The second issue, also elaborated on in other articles is that of Islam. A religion which has supporters far removed from the fanatics, and this makes confronting the matter all the more difficult. These advocates are intelligent, in positions of power and influence and argue their case cogently. Their objective is to put a positive impression on Islam along with invoking a sense that it needs legal protections and oppressed victim status. Those who see Islam as a problem are quickly stigmatised as Islamophobes. In 2015 a conservative councillor tweeted the following.

“Islam is like alcoholism. The first step to recovery is admit you have a problem.”

That surprisingly incendiary remark caused the perpetrator, Mr Lamb, first to apologise for his misdemeanour and later resign as a member of the Conservative Party. There is according to Baroness Warsi growing signs of Islamophobia in her party. She was the first Muslim woman to have a seat at the Cabinet table, and claimed there was a “deep-rooted problem” in the party. Well if the above remark is a sign of Islamophobia, then how would any kind of remark expressing negative concern about the Muslim community avoid being called Islamophobic? Mr Lamb’s comment was essentially mild in tone, saying nothing more than there is a problem which needs addressing. An observation which is obviously true. Opinion Polls confirm this fact.

One of the reasons is that the Quran preaches jihad against the kafir: the infidel. That is anyone who is not a Muslim: an unbeliever, a pagan, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Christian or a Jew. And Europe knows from experience it is a target of Jihad. Why is the preaching of that creed, which is based in Islam’s holy book, not hate speech? The Bible has been similarly accused, but is much the more likely candidate under current political opinion to be formally classified as hate literature. Jihad of whatever sort, peaceful or violent, covert or open, is according to the Quran an essential part of Islamic teaching. If that is accepted as a fact then there is a problem. Ignoring it will only serve as a short term solution. The sensible option is to face the issue. Face Muslim leaders with the issues and try to negotiate a solution. Expressing this concern  as Mr Lamb did, in terms of alcoholism may not have been the most diplomatic way of opening a debate; but it at least opens it up for discussion. And it needs opening up because a large proportion of the British public are concerned.  According to a recent report in the Guardian newspaper, polling of more than 10,000 people in July 2018, found 32% of people believed there were Muslim “no-go areas” in Britain governed by Sharia law. That supposed reality is officially denied, but the view from people living in deprived areas of the UK should be listened to, primarily because they probably know better than any official what is actually going on in these communities. They may know a good deal more than official authorities who tend to tow the politically correct line. Officials who could well represent the same councils, police and social workers who denied the scale and religious background of the sex grooming gangs. A scandal which became such a big issue it hit the media and front pages of every national newspaper. Another Guardian report of a recent poll indicated a shocking figure. That three-quarters of non-Muslims believe Islam has provided a negative contribution to British society. In the face of that information surely some initiative must be taken. Perhaps the government should take this vast number of self confessed Islamophobes, the majority of the general public, into a prolonged training scheme. Its the kind of re-education project that appealed to Marxist dictatorships. And that is what should scare us the most. That if a decision must be taken, in whose favour would that decision be made?

I will conclude by returning to Mr Lamb and his reference to an alcoholic who has a problem which has to be faced. If it is not, how will he or she be enabled to function well in society? There are remedies, of course, and the first is to recognise that there is a problem. If you cannot even say that there is a problem without being accused of hate thoughts or speech, then the only option is to kick the problem down the road. And there it sits in the long grass and festers, becoming increasingly unstable; a potential grenade placed into the hands of the people you least want to deal with it: the far right. No-one in their right mind wants that to happen, but failure to face what most people in this country know to be a growing problem seems to be the favoured answer. Wait, hope and make concessions, appears to be the only solution on offer. It is the hopeless, clueless response of the coward. The video below is a conversation on the issue. Its title is alarming to anyone who cares about the future of our country. And that will include large numbers of moderate, mostly I imagine less religiously inclined Muslims or apostates; those who are happy to live in the West alongside all the other minorities. even with small c conservative white indigenous citizens like myself. Most people want to live in peace with one another, and I share that feeling. I also fear that as Douglas Murray says in the video below, there may not be a soft landing on Islam. It is not always the moderate majorities who hold the power when things begin to go wrong.

This was written before the terrible mass killing of 49 innocent Muslims in and around two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand. This tragedy was reported today: the 16th of March 2019. On this website I have written a lot about the dangers of the extreme left, but this appalling act demonstrates that the far right is equally repugnant. An insane hatred driven by fanatics incapable of drawing the distinction between good and evil and what can be done and what cannot be done under any circumstances.

 

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