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| Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser has been awarded the Templeton Prize Dartmouth College/AFP Photo |
Washington (AFP) - The annual Templeton Prize, which recognizes outstanding contributions to "affirming life's spiritual dimension," was awarded Tuesday to Brazilian Marcelo Gleiser -- a theoretical physicist dedicated to demonstrating science and religion are not enemies.
A physics
and astronomy professor whose specializations include cosmology, 60-year-old
Gleiser was born in Rio de Janeiro, and has been in the United States since
1986.
An
agnostic, he doesn't believe in God -- but refuses to write off the possibility
of God's existence completely.
"Atheism
is inconsistent with the scientific method," Gleiser told AFP Monday from
Dartmouth College, the New Hampshire university where he has taught since 1991.
"Atheism
is a belief in non-belief. So you categorically deny something you have no
evidence against."
"I'll
keep an open mind because I understand that human knowledge is limited,"
he added.
The prize
is funded by the John Templeton Foundation -- a philanthropic organization
named after the American Presbyterian who made his fortune on Wall Street, and
who set on "seeking proofs of divine agency in every branch of
science", as The Economist put it.
Gleiser
joins Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and dissident Soviet author Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn as recipients of the prize, first awarded in 1973. At £1.1 million
($1.5 million), the prize money well surpasses that of the Nobels.
The
physicist focuses on at making complex subjects accessible. He has written on
climate change, Einstein, hurricanes, black holes, the human conscience --
tracing the links between the sciences and the humanities, including
philosophy.
The author
of five English-language books and hundreds of blog and press articles in the
US and Brazil, Gleiser has also explored in depth how science and religion both
try to respond to questions on the origins of life and the universe.
"The
first thing you see in the Bible is a story of creation," he said.
Whatever your religion, "everybody wants to know how the world came to
be."
This
fundamental curiosity unites science and religion, though each provides very
different answers: science has a methodology, where hypotheses are eliminated.
"Science
can give answers to certain questions, up to a point," Gleiser pointed
out.
"This
has been known for a very long time in philosophy, it's called the problem of
the first cause: we get stuck," the physicist, a father of five, said.
"We
should have the humility to accept that there's mystery around us."
Scientific arrogance
So, what
does he think of people who believe that the Earth was created in seven days?
"They
position science as the enemy ... because they have a very antiquated way of
thinking about science and religion in which all scientists try to kill
God," he said.
"Science
does not kill God."
On the
other hand, he accuses the "new atheists" of doing a disservice to
science by making an enemy out of religion: notably British scientist Richard
Dawkins -- who called for the arrest of Pope Benedict XVI over pedophilia in
the Catholic Church -- and the late journalist Christopher Hitchens, who
criticized Mother Theresa.
For
Gleiser, who grew up in Rio's Jewish community, religion is not just about
believing in God: it provides a sense of identity and community
"At least
half of the world population is that way," he said.
"It's
extremely arrogant from scientists to come down from the ivory towers and make
these declarations without understanding the social importance of belief
systems."
"When
you hear very famous scientists making pronouncements like ... cosmology has
explained the origin of the universe and the whole, and we don't need God
anymore. That's complete nonsense," he added.
"Because
we have not explained the origin of the universe at all."
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Physicists are among the kinds of scientists who expect change through discovery, and who absolutely know that they are unaware of how everything works. It comes with the territory of being a physicist. Yet the mistakes they make in their bias are the same as the computer scientist. They take their truth from known absolute physics in 3D and then apply this truth to everything they don't know.
I point to the revelation and the discoveries of astronomer Vera Rubin. When she found out that stars that orbit the middle of your galaxy don't behave within the gravitational laws of Newton or the laws of planetary motion from Kepler, it was a major discovery. Your solar system moves around the sun in highly definable 3D laws of motion. The objects that are further away from the sun go slower. The ones closer to the sun go faster. However, her discovery showed that stars orbiting the galaxy had this reversed! The stars that are further away from the middle go faster. What she discovered was that all of the stars go the same speed in relationship to the middle, like they were pasted on a plate, all revolving together around the center. They do not follow the rules of the physics that you know.
So, what did the physicists and astronomers do with this major new information? Instead of seeing a brand new paradigm, they instead used Newton's laws and computed what would have to be "out there" to make this happen. Dark matter! It had to be mysterious, invisible matter that was creating this very strange and enormous new Newtonian attribute. Instead of looking at this and saying, "There is a new law of physics happening here that we don't yet know about," they kept it within the Newton box and renamed it, "Altered Newtonian Physics". That's funny! That's like a situation when you discovered the earth was round and called it the "Altered Flat-Earth Principle"!
Newton's name is still attached, but his 3D laws have nothing to do with anything Ruben discovered. Dark matter does not exist! It's a made-up energy to satisfy an old law that doesn't apply! Instead, there is a new law of physics that you haven't seen yet. It's a multidimensional law having to do with modified entanglement. Modified entangled objects are created because of what is in the middle of the galaxy. The immense push-pull twin energy at the middle of each galaxy is not simplistic like your sun is to your own solar system. It does not have Kepler rules, since it's not mass that's just orbiting naturally. Yet, you think it is, since it looks similar: The galaxy has stars circling it in space. Someday, you'll slap your heads in revelation of what you did with this, and you will change the rules.
Now to esoteric astronomy: Look what you've done with the idea that you came from the Pleiadians. There are some scientists laughing right now who smugly say that the mythology of the Pleiadians being your seed biology is simply not possible. It's not possible because of astronomical history, and what they now know about the constellation itself.
Pleiadian Connection - Mythology?
Let's talk about the Pleiadian system, the Seven Sisters. Let's talk about the truth of it, and then let's discuss what science says is the mythology of it. We will tell you what you don't see and don't comprehend, simply because of your existing knowledge.
You call this constellation the Seven Sisters [M45]. The physical facts are that there are hundreds of stars in this Pleiades group. Circling these stars is a nebula (dust particles and gas). This creates a wonderful blue tinge that you can see in the heavens on a clear night. With distance and atmospheric attributes against you, the naked eye can only perceive what appears to be seven stars (or clusters), hence the name Seven Sisters. However, there are actually nine when you use a telescope. Each of the nine have been identified with names, but again, there are actually hundreds of stars.
The Seven Sisters are approximately 440 light years away. From the viewpoint of astronomy and distances, that's close - very close! Now, here's what science says is wrong with your mythology about the Pleiadians: The constellation is way too young! The whole system of the Pleiades is far too young to have developed life. It's only approximately 100 million years old - a baby! The galaxy is four billion years old [according to your science] and your planet is at least a billion of that. Yet, the Pleiadians are only a tiny fraction of that, only 100 million.
So here is what science says: The mythology has most of the ancients of this planet claiming the Pleiadians as their seeds. However, this is impossible due to the age of the stars. The suppositions and logic are applied this way: What you saw on earth happens everywhere in the galaxy. That's incorrect, and quite humorous! Your bias is that life develops only a certain way, based upon the way it developed here. Not only is that incorrect in general, but the possibility has never even been broached that perhaps, just perhaps, the Pleiadian life as you think it exists was actually implanted there! How about that? Perhaps it didn't evolve from there at all! So to dismiss a possibility completely due to only the knowledge of what you have here may result in a totally illogical conclusion. Then there is the question, "How did those Pleiadians get so advanced so quickly?" [Wink]
These are just little vignettes of possibility, which I throw to you this evening to give you things to think about. The Pleiadians who are here are smiling, and they know you so well. You may be the new kids on the block because life just developed on your planet, but the Pleiadians had an entirely different scenario from what you had. To become an ascended planet, they needed certain kinds of pushes from certain other kinds of planets. They had their own seed biology! Dear ones, it's important to start thinking out of the box of your knowledge and open up to possibilities that are not what you've seen here. ….”
"FUTURE AND PHYSICS (#)" - May 16-17, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (#) New major Discoveries (This channel will become a historical channel in the future, prove that Kryon is a real communication from the Creative Source/God to Humanity - 'Óur Family') - (Text version Physics)
1 To see and measure multi-dimensional/quantum physics, instrument (super-cooling quantum plasma lens)
2 Two more laws of multi-dimensional physics revealed: explanation of dark matter & acknowledgement of free energy (controlling mass)
3 God in the atom. God has - provable - part in physics. Intelligent/benevolent design. (Will bring religion and science together.)
4 Human Consciousness is an attribute of physics. (Pleiadians - Humans ancestors / Humans free choice only planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other galaxies have their own spiritual systems and physics)
5.Coherent DNA. Multidimensional DNA coherent between dimensions will give Enhanced DNA
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"Earth, the only planet with free choice in the Milky Way Galaxy"
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"The Quantum Factor" – Apr 10, 2011 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Galaxies, Universe, Intelligent design, Benevolent design, Aliens, Nikola Tesla (Quantum energy), Inter-Planetary Travel, DNA, Genes, Stem Cells, Cells, Rejuvenation, Shift of Human Consciousness, Spontaneous Remission, Religion, Dictators, Africa, China, Nuclear Power, Sustainable Development, Animals, Global Unity.. etc.) - (Text Version)
“… The entire galaxy revolves as one plate, in a very counter-intuitive way. The stars and the constellations do not orbit within the rules of Newtonian physics that you are used to seeing all around you in your own solar system. For the stars and clusters in your galaxy, distance from the center does not matter. All the stars rotate as one. This is because the galaxy is entangled with the middle of itself. In that state, there is no time or distance. The change of consciousness on this planet has changed the center of the galaxy. This is because what happens here, dear one, is "known" by the center.
It's interesting to us what your reaction to all this is scientifically. You saw that the "creative event" of your Universe is missing some energy in order for it to have formed as it did. In addition, the unusual way the galaxy rotates, as I just stated, was also noted. So you have calculated that for all this to be in place, there has to be missing 3D matter, and you have given it a name - dark matter. How funny! Did you ever think that there could be a multidimensional effect going on that you now can observe and calculate - that has immense power, but can't be seen? It's not "matter" at all and it's not 3D. It's quantum energy.
Let me tell you something about physics. Yet again, I'll make it simple. Everything your scientists have seen in physics happens in pairs. At the moment, there are four laws of physics in your three-dimensional paradigm. They represent two pairs of energy types. Eventually, there will be six. At the center of your galaxy is what you call a black hole, but it is not a single thing. It is a duality. There is no such thing as "singularity". You might say it's one energy with two parts - a weak and a strong quantum force. And the strangest thing is it knows who you are. It is the creator engine. It's different in other galaxies than this one. It's unique.
The very physics of your galaxy is postured by what you do here. The astronomers can look into the cosmos and they will discover different physics in different galaxies. Could it be that there's something going on in the other galaxies like this one? I'm not going to answer that. … “
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