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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 25/04/2020 19:15:53 »
God helps me because I was challenged by a skeptic to give scientific papers which prompted me to do some work. In trying to find the best 5 papers, I was re-organising and re-reading some material I had. That prompted me to Google some of the sources and people to see what would come up.

And through skimming and noticing little references that seemed interesting I came up with a couple of what I found. The first one does the mathematics on standing waves which I mentioned, and references Dr Palls work on calcium ion channels.

The first one was this one:
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14914.pdf
Polarization: A Key Difference between Man-made and Natural Electromagnetic Fields, in regard to Biological Activity Dimitris J. J. Panagopoulos.
...A large and increasing number of studies during the past few decades have indicated a variety of adverse biological effects to be triggered by exposure to man-made EMFs, especially of radio frequency (RF)/microwaves, and extremely low frequency (ELF). The recorded biological effects range from alterations in the synthesis rates and intracellular concentrations of different biomolecules, to DNA and protein damage, which may result in cell death, reproductive declines, or even cancer. Under the weight of this evidence the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified both ELF magnetic fields and RF EMFs as possibly carcinogenic to humans. The intensities of radiation and durations of exposure in all these studies were significantly smaller than those of corresponding exposures from natural EMFs in the terrestrial environment. Moreover, the field intensities applied in the studies were several orders of magnitude smaller than physiological fields in cell membranes, or fields generated by nerve and muscle excitations.
...As is evident from the described mechanism, the field does not gate the channel by forces exerted directly on the channel sensors. It would take a field on the order of the transmembrane field (106–107 V/m) for that. It is the mediation of the oscillating free ions in close proximity to the S4 channel sensors that allows such weak fields to be able to exert the necessary forces to gate the channel.Thus, ELF electric fields emitted by mobile phones and base stations stronger than 0.0004 V/m are also potentially able to disrupt the function of any living cell. This ELF intensity value is emitted by regular cell phones at distances up to a few meters and base stations at distances up to a few hundred meters. For N number of mobile telephony antennas vertically oriented, the last value is divided by N (according to Eq. 19) at locations of constructive interference.



I also came across this 2020 article on EHS which is a scientific paper on the symptoms and the field strengths/durations I listed as personal observations - and also references the fact that my underlying histoplasmosis issues probably make me more sensitive. It shows the scientific tests that are available that I was not aware of (I will give this one to my GP and my neurologist). Note the debunking of psychosomatic and nocebo myths.

https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/6/1915
Electrohypersensitivity as a Newly Identified and Characterized Neurologic Pathological Disorder: How to Diagnose, Treat, and Prevent It
...Altogether, these data strongly suggest that EHS is a neurologic
pathological disorder which can be diagnosed, treated, and prevented. Because EHS is becoming a new insidious worldwide plague involving millions of people, we ask the World Health Organization (WHO) to include EHS as a neurologic disorder in the international classification of diseases.
...Symptoms in patients with EHS were compared with those from a series of apparently healthy control subjects that showed no clinical evidence of EHS and/or MCS. As indicated in the table, EHS is characterized by the occurrence of neurologic symptoms including headache, tinnitus, hyperacusis, dizziness, balance disorder, superficial and/or deep sensibility abnormalities, fibromyalgia, vegetative nerve dysfunction, and reduced cognitive capability, including immediate memory loss, attention–concentration deficiency, and eventually tempo-spatial confusion. These symptoms were associated with chronic insomnia, fatigue, and depressive tendency, in addition to emotional lability and sometimes irritability. A major observation is that symptoms were repeatedly reported by the patients to occur each time they reported being exposed to presumably EMF sources, even of weak intensity, and to regress or even disappear after they left these presumed sources. With the exception of arthralgia and emotivity, which were observed at a similar frequency range in the control group, all clinical symptoms occurring in EHS patients were found to be significantly much more frequent than those in apparently normal controls.
...On the basis of previously published experimental data, we selected and identified several biomarkers in the peripheral blood and urine of EHS and/or MCS patients which can allow physicians to objectively characterize EHS and MCS as true somatic pathological disorders, discounting the hypothesis that EHS and MCS could be caused by a psychosomatic or nocebo-related process.



But the die-hards on this forum will no doubt reach deep to discredit these so that they can discredit me. Here is a example of my predictions starting to be supported by science. I was 12 months ahead of reading this article.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 25/04/2020 08:11:44 »
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 24/04/2020 15:03:37
This article has further shrunk scientific gaps for gods to hide in.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/lifes-first-molecule-was-protein-not-rna-new-model-suggests-20171102/

Not at all. Quite the opposite.

It reinforces the need for an Intelligent Designer. What gave the molecules their emergent property of being able to form such complex units? It had to happen at the time of the Big Bang. Every aspect of that Bang had to be in perfect balance to get galaxies to form, to get planets to form, to get an incredible complexity of terra-forming capable of supporting the formation of proteins and RNA on this planet.

The more we know about the evolution and mechanics of life, the more amazing is the design. Which is why a number of scientists support Intelligent Design.

Note: My dyslexia and dementia are getting worse. As much as I try spell checking I still often miss bad words and grammar. I spell "of" as "fo" and "no" as "not" and "the" as "teh". And those are just the simple ones. I struggle to find words I know I want to use. I often have to do a synonym check to find them.  My logic seems intact though.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 25/04/2020 08:00:32 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 24/04/2020 09:44:14
Quote from: CliveG on 24/04/2020 06:33:43
Science accepts the concept of a Prime Cause.
Really? Where have you been for the last 100 years?

You may be right that science has changed its stance on this one, and now ignores the "need" for a Prime Cause.

That avoids having to deal with it as a religious argument. Before that, science saw the universe as infinite and once more that avoided the need for a Prime Cause. Having time and space possibly coming into existence at the Big Bang now requires the question of what existed before the Big Bang.

The Big Bang was proposed by a priest.  :)   Scientists at first were worried that this supported the viewpoint of a "Creation" and it took some time for acceptance. Religion was not just stuffy Popes ruling by edict from an ivory tower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Big_Bang_theory
...In his 1225 treatise De Luce (On Light), English theologian Robert Grosseteste explored the nature of matter and the cosmos. He described the birth of the universe in an explosion and the crystallization of matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around Earth.
...In 1927, the Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaître proposed an expanding model for the universe to explain the observed redshifts of spiral nebulae, and calculated the Hubble law. He based his theory on the work of Einstein and De Sitter, and independently derived Friedmann's equations for an expanding universe


1225 was the time of the first proposal of a Big Bang. Do you see what insights religious people can have into the nature of the universe?  8)

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 24/04/2020 06:36:05 »
Quote from: duffyd on 23/04/2020 17:54:42
Quote from: CliveG on 23/04/2020 07:56:24
Watch the documentary "Pandemic" which came out on Netflix on November 2019.
Is it any good?

Is it long and jumps around. But there is excellent information which foretells corona. I downloaded and then did a lot of fast forward to skip a lot of the ho-hum.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 24/04/2020 06:33:43 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 23/04/2020 17:18:30
Quote from: CliveG on 23/04/2020 15:41:02
Assume for 1 second that multiverses exist. What caused them to exist? Why the Infinite Intelligence hypothesized by CliveG of course. 

Assume for 1 second that multiverses the Infinite Intelligence hypothesized by CliveG  exists. What caused them to exist?

Science accepts the concept of a Prime Cause. An Infinite Intelligence as a Prime Cause is far more simple (hence Occam) than a sudden appearance of dumb matter and energy which has just the right properties for intelligence to emerge. You still have not addressed this issue.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 23/04/2020 15:44:07 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 23/04/2020 11:09:53
Quote from: CliveG on 23/04/2020 07:56:24
The Great CDC and the WHO have had their "science" and their "scientists" discredited.
Science has not been discredited.
The power of prayer has.


Trials start today in the UK on a vaccine. The work was coordinated and assisted by the WHO.
Try being less obviously wrong.

And it seems you forgot to answer this.
Quote from: Bored chemist on 21/04/2020 18:22:02
So, what did I say about masks that was wrong?
(please remember that the world has moved on in the meantime)

I will let those who read the posts decide for themselves on this post of yours.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 23/04/2020 15:41:02 »
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 23/04/2020 08:44:19
Quote from: alancalverd on 22/04/2020 00:43:09
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 21/04/2020 05:39:09
many physicists now consider our universe to be just one bubble among a vast number of other universes.
Really? The multiverse is surely a mathematical tool for prediction, not a physical entity.
The word many doesn't necessarily mean most. But based on the title of the video below, they do seem to believe that multiverse might be a physical entity, even though we don't have the evidence yet.
(video)

Talk about Math-a-Magics. Wow, how did he manage to keep a straight face the whole time? Even when soliciting the dollars  ;). He even kept a straight face when talking about aliens. (A it of tongue in cheek here). But I do not know the guy. He might very well be a solid well grounded professor.

Calculations based on the physics of the nature of exponential expansion? This is taking speculation to new heights (not to mention new dimensions).

There is one reason for wanting to believe (and I mean believe in every sense of the word) in multiverses. It is to avoid having to deal with what caused the Big Bang. It is another turtle in the infinite stack of turtles that the universe sits on. It just pushes back having to deal with the Prime Cause of what caused EVERYTHING! So far back that people forget it requires an answer.

Assume for 1 second that multiverses exist. What caused them to exist? Why the Infinite Intelligence hypothesized by CliveG of course.  8)

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 23/04/2020 07:56:24 »
It is worth summarizing.

God has an agenda which is simple to state but takes a very clever implementation to achieve.

The agenda is: a) Decrease the world population b) Change society to recognize the wrong direction and become more spiritual.

A quick and drastic decrease would achieve the first part, and there are elements of it in Covid-19. But it would not change society. A few years ago I figured that in order to achieve a die-off the pathogen would have to spread widely and silently before activating. I had to use logic and guesswork because I was not given details. I did think that my experiences would give me some clues.

I suffered the long-term effects of systemic histoplasmosis (bat fungus in my blood stream) and my late wife died from the same thing. So I thought there might be a combination of fungus and virus that would spread.

But my experiences did not stop. When I suffered from a cell tower next to us and I learned from research just how slow and silent the damage is, I then thought that the die-off would be slow using degraded immune systems and the usual diseases like cancer, heart attack and others.

However, that would be too slow and there is no "message", so God is using a combination of disasters to communicate to the world that it must change. The corona virus is designed to have a number of clever effects.

It is a stealth virus in a number of ways, and so can spread fear and panic. Watch the documentary "Pandemic" which came out on Netflix on November 2019. It has a long incubation period and can spread in asymptomatic people. The US now suspects that people had died earlier than previously thought. Western governments miscalculated and were too sure that their advanced science would be able to deal with any sort of outbreak.

SARS, MERS and Ebola were intended to add to the sense of false security. The Great CDC and the WHO have had their "science" and their "scientists" discredited. The mask controversy also had a double achievement. It showed how governments and scientists lie and cannot be trusted, and it also allowed a wider spread of the virus.

The virus spread to the rich and powerful nations in a way that could not have been worse if planned. Actually it was planned - by God. The industrial hub of Italy, then Spain, the UK and the USA. China had shut itself down.

The timing was also designed to catch the world at a bad time economically. It has wreaked havoc with economies in ways that are still to be seen and felt. The world was beginning to slow down. The 2008 toxic debt had not been cleared and interest rates are at an all time low. The oil crisis then hits with nations unable to agree to cuts. Some nations (Venezuela and Nigeria for example) are going to see massive health problems due to collapsing economies.

The virus was also designed with another message - decreasing the population by targeting the old and the infirm. If an agency was to design a population decrease virus, that would be one of the key design criteria.

People are going to change their habits. Less spending and less waste. It has been demonstrated that climate change is possible if the short-term pain is accepted. More emphasis on charity. The financial inequality will decrease. Governments and secular institution are going to be seen as less powerful. People will turn to religion for answers.

And some may say God is punishing the world for it's greed and destruction of the planet. They may be right. Some children think their parents are hateful and nasty when they get punished. Some people think the same of God who is acting for the long term good of mankind.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 22/04/2020 16:21:08 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 22/04/2020 12:27:28
Quote from: alancalverd on 22/04/2020 12:15:09
Art thou forger, knave or wit?
Wit.

Wannabe Wit, methinks.  ::)

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 22/04/2020 06:30:17 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 22/04/2020 00:39:42
Quote from: CliveG on 21/04/2020 15:40:45
In other words, person A speaks and the viral load is reduced 6 fold. Person B breathes in and there is a further 6 fold reduction.
Probably not. Almost any mask will reduce the velocity and hence spread of exhaled droplets, which is why we wear surgical masks in operating theaters, but you need a fully fitted HEPA filter to significantly reduce inhalation of aerosols. Even if your surgical or cloth mask is saturated, it slows down the exhalate, but a saturated cloth mask is a very efficient source of inhaled bugs, HEPA less so.

Change and wash the cloths masks frequently. The multiple folds are more efficient at stopping and capturing droplets and aerosols. But everyone should be wearing one.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 22/04/2020 06:27:38 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 22/04/2020 00:43:09
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 21/04/2020 05:39:09
many physicists now consider our universe to be just one bubble among a vast number of other universes.
Really? The multiverse is surely a mathematical tool for prediction, not a physical entity.

Agreed.  :)

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 21/04/2020 15:52:43 »
@BC
It was said that the covid pandemic was not making much impact on reducing the population.

The BBC stats office is saying that instead of an expected 10,000 deaths they are getting 18,000 deaths. And that it is likely that some of the 10,000 also includes covid deaths. Covid is definitely increasing global deaths directly.

Looking at John Hopkins site we have 2,499,000 cases and 171,000 which is 2.8 % for the world. The US is 788,000 cases and 42,000 deaths (nearest 1,000) which is 5.3 %. You were saying that the figure is less that 1%. Once more I think you need to rethink.

Some scientists are thinking we will never get rid of covid as it has spread too far.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 21/04/2020 15:40:45 »
@BC
On the BBC a lady explained why cloths mask for all work. She said that it stops those who are asymptomatic from coughing droplets. Droplets and aerosols that might land of surfaces or be inhaled. And if another is wearing a mask then there is a further reduction in the viral load. In other words, person A speaks and the viral load is reduced 6 fold. Person B breathes in and there is a further 6 fold reduction. That is 36 fold, is it? That equates to a 97 % effective single mask. Here is a reference.

Are you going to admit that both you (and the USA and UK) are wrong? And that this has led to deaths that may have been prevented?

https://masks4all.co/

“Much of Central Europe is now following the example set by China, Taiwan and South Korea. On [March 30th], Austria mandated its citizens wear masks when outside the home, after the Czech, Slovak and Bosnian governments issued similar orders.”
–Wall Street Journal

“Wearing a simple cloth mask, decreases the spread of the virus by 80%! Czech Republic has made it OBLIGATORY for its citizens to wear a mask in public.”  –Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 21/04/2020 11:00:53 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 20/04/2020 11:28:02
Quote from: CliveG on 20/04/2020 10:40:35
Are you serious? If so, why do you read a book you are so opposed to?
I'm not opposed to it, only to idiotic misinterpretations and cynical misrepresentations of it. The King James version contains some of the best English ever written. Just  like Shakespeare, the historical sequence is believable if a bit "curated" (to be polite)  but I wouldn't base my life on Revelations or a Midsummer Night's Dream, and it's full of useful quotations.

Okay. Now I am intrigued. Give me a few examples, including some useful quotations.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 20/04/2020 10:44:05 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 20/04/2020 01:37:52
Postscript.

Whilst I have no doubt that Jonah Duffy has witnessed and faithfully recorded many uncontrolled descents, I have it on good authority from a forensic phonetician who has analysed dozens of cockpit voice recorders, that the last word on every tape is always "sh1t!". Interesting that, whatever their native language or religion, even in moments of extreme stress, pilots continue to speak English. That's professionalism.

Interesting. People who are about to die often have an uncontrolled bowel movement. That might explain their last words.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 20/04/2020 10:40:35 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 19/04/2020 13:59:24
How do I know what I know? I sometimes read the bible when I'm waiting my call in an operating theater.

Are you serious? If so, why do you read a book you are so opposed to?

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 20/04/2020 10:38:32 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 19/04/2020 10:21:08
When it's all over (if ever) and we take stock, we will indeed have a better appreciation of God. He is the evil bastard who created humans as food for parasites. Which is why human parasites evangelise.

God cannot be a bastard because he has no mother and no father.  ;)

Is it not better to reduce the population drastically and save the planet than to allow humans to extinct themselves and most other life?

And if the world is a better place and more spiritual, should we not be thankful?

If you want perfection in your God you are doomed to be continually disappointed (and angry), because you God is not the true God.

What about my post 699 about a post-covid world?

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 20/04/2020 10:35:34 »
Quote from: CliveG on 20/04/2020 07:48:06
Quote from: Bored chemist on 19/04/2020 09:45:39
Quote from: CliveG on 19/04/2020 09:40:31
Why have no protection when some protection is better?
Because it produces a false sense of security.

From your quote
Quote from: CliveG on 19/04/2020 09:40:31
Live viruses could be detected in the air behind all surgical masks tested.
i.e. they don't really work.

I'm not against masks, I'm against bad masks.

I have to quote your post once more.

In reply you said you said I was wrong that you would die than wear a surgical mask.

But here you say an ordinary surgical mask is not only a waste of time, but gives a false sense of security and therefore should not be worn. Yet your link showed a 6 fold reduction. To me that means you have improved your chances by at least 83 percent. It may even be that the lowered viral load gives a 95 to 99 percent protection against infection. If you get an infection by wearing no mask, you might die. You prefer to wear not mask, hence it is logical for me to state that your choice is a risk of dying rather than wearing a mask with a lower risk of dying. I can logically say you prefer to die rather than wear a surgical mask.

Oh course, I could also say you do not want to admit you have been wrong in you posts about masks. I could make further logical deductions about that but you seem to be rather touchy so I will leave it.



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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 20/04/2020 07:48:06 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 19/04/2020 09:45:39
Quote from: CliveG on 19/04/2020 09:40:31
Why have no protection when some protection is better?
Because it produces a false sense of security.

From your quote
Quote from: CliveG on 19/04/2020 09:40:31
Live viruses could be detected in the air behind all surgical masks tested.
i.e. they don't really work.

I'm not against masks, I'm against bad masks.

So why do the news networks educate the public about how to wear a mask and take it off, rather than wear no masks.

Of course, you would rather die than wear a mask that was not 100% effective. And also infect other people. Yes, I have said it before, God uses not only our arrogance but our ignorance against us.

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Just Chat! / Re: Can science prove God exists?
« on: 19/04/2020 09:40:31 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 19/04/2020 09:29:24
Quote from: CliveG on 19/04/2020 09:11:16
Show me the testing that has been performed by modern scientists.
Was that intended to be some sort of difficult challenge?
https://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr619.pdf

Or were you just  to damned lazy to google it?


You were the one against masks. Yet there are definite reductions. Why have no protection when some protection is better? From your link:

Using separate tests to measure levels of inert particles and live aerosolised influenza virus, our findings show that surgical masks provide around a 6-fold reduction in exposure.  Live viruses could be detected in the air behind all surgical masks tested. By contrast, properly fitted respirators could provide at least a 100-fold reduction.

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