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To: CobaltBlue

That is your *belief*...and it's not provable, either way.

Plenty of scientists *believe* differantly:
http://www.godandscience.org/evolution/index.html

Do you *believe* in "global warming?" A lot of scientists do *believe*...and *some* don't *believe*. Interesting, don't you think?

That is a also a religious question. See this article below, if you don't think scientists get into "beliefs" (not neccessarily religious)



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293676/posts

"Are you a skeptic or a believer?" said Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, in a speech to about 100 people at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

"Essentially if whatever you are told is alleged to be supported by 'all scientists,' you don't have to understand [the issue] anymore. You simply go back to treating it as a matter of religious belief," Lindzen said. His speech was titled, "Climate Alarmism: The Misuse of 'Science'" and was sponsored by the free market George C. Marshall Institute. Lindzen is a professor at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

Once a person becomes a believer of global warming, "you never have to defend this belief except to claim that you are supported by all scientists -- except for a handful of corrupted heretics," Lindzen added.

According to Lindzen, climate "alarmists" have been trying to push the idea that there is scientific consensus on dire climate change.

"With respect to science, the assumption behind the [alarmist] consensus is science is the source of authority and that authority increases with the number of scientists [who agree.] But science is not primarily a source of authority. It is a particularly effective approach of inquiry and analysis. Skepticism is essential to science -- consensus is foreign," Lindzen said.


102 posted on 12/19/2004 10:28:50 AM PST by FBD (Report illegals and their employers at: http://www.reportillegals.com/)
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To: FBD

I have no idea what global warming brings to the discussion of evolution and God.

Why bring it up?


104 posted on 12/19/2004 11:11:07 AM PST by CobaltBlue
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To: FBD

Probably the best argument against monistic Darwinism being " universally accepted by the scientific community " is the fact that global warming is " universally accepted in the scientific community."

Religious belief in the face or the facts is NOT limited to the religious obscurantist. It happens in the scientific community, it happens frequently in the scientific community, and if it pisses you off for me to say it, that is just tough.


466 posted on 12/20/2004 11:29:37 AM PST by chronic_loser (Go to my blog: http://snarktown.blogspot.com)
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