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Detention Threat for Malaysian blogger
Malaysian Patriot writes "The Malaysian blogosphere is currently in uproar as one of their most famous bloggers, a political observer named Jeff Ooi, has been threatened with action under the country's draconian ISA (Internal Security Act) law which allows a person to be detained without trial if he is thought to threaten "national security". The whole problem started with a comment made by a reader of the blog. The comment is alleged to have been insulting of Islam. A national newspaper (whose editor has frequently been a target of Ooi's blog) took up the story and accused the blogger of insulting Islam, while Ooi in his defence states he warned (and later deleted) the offending commenter when he was alerted to it. Malaysian bloggers meanwhile are outraged that a blogger should be held responsible for comments made by readers. In the case of Ooi's blog, which attracts thousands of hits per day, it is logistically impossible for Ooi to read and moderate every comment made. The whole saga can be followed in Jeff Ooi's Screenshots blog."
The Big Bang is a scientific model of the start of the universe. I could point out that it's a scientific theory that was created to explain observable facts, whereas God creating the universe doesn't explain anything. And if you start asking what created Big Bang, I'm afraid you're a bit behind the times there. The current conception just has space, and the space 'tilts' sideways and turns into time. (I don't pretend to understand how things can 'tilt' in no time, but the math works.)
However, that's not really the point at all, you're trying to trick people, even if you don't realize it. It doesn't matter if the Big Bang is wrong...in fact, even since the Big Bang was proposed, serious professional scientists have claimed that theory is inaccurate and/or meaningless.
It's not some end-all and be-all of science, it's nowhere near the level of General Relativity as a 'theory'. (Strictly speaking, there's not one theory there anyway, there are several.) Pretending it's some sort of religion for scientists is ignoring the fact a lot of them don't believe it, they just don't have anything better at the moment.
But that's still not the point. The point is that the people claiming the Big Bang theory is correct are doing so because that's what the evidence looks like. They say 'It looks like the entire universe used to be in the same place...what the heck could that have looked liked, and what happened to it to make it go everywhere?' Whereas the people saying 'God did it' are just being lazy.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
If you're Malaysian and are aware of the facts of the matter, please take 1 min to sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/jeffooi/petition.htm l