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Posted on 03/08/2007 10:55:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Some neuro-scientists see evidence that man is genetically hard-wired to be disposed to religious conviction. If this is so, it might explain why amongst even the French — the most secular culture on Earth — only 25 percent claim to be atheists, and a full 60 percent believe in a spiritual component to life. It might also explain why the environmental movement tends to veer toward a religious, rather than a scientific, sensibility.
This oft-observed aspect to environmentalism in general, and global warmingism in particular, has been shrewdly analyzed in a new book, "The Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction," by former University College London professor Dr. David Orrell. Among other things, Dr. Orrell focuses on the similarity between global warming advocates' powerful predictive urge and the inherent prophetic nature of the religious instinct.
While I suspect that most global warming alarmists would be offended if they were called pagan neo-animists, in fact, some leading religious scholars have written cogently on the point. For example, Graham Harvey, professor of religious studies at King Alfred's College, England, has written two approving books on the topic: "Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth," (New York University Press) and "Animism: Respecting the Living World." (Columbia University Press).
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Yippie! What do I get? :)
Pen name for a French philosopher. He got into a lot of trouble by writing about freedom and the abuses of nobility and organized religion of the time. His home straddled the French and Swiss borders, so he joked that he stayed on the Swiss side when his writings angered the Catholics (France), and on the French side when his writings angered the Protestants (Switzerland).
Thus a reason that this whole global warming thing pisses me off so much. This is about science. Faith should have no role in it just as politics shouldn't.
re: The Goreacle
I can't claim credit for originating the expression -- it was actually some Gore-bots in Canada who came up with it, so far as I know....... they love him and thought pretending to be a Gore cult was tongue-in-cheek fun, but they revealed more than they intended about the fanaticism of the enviro-whackos.
Hey, I already gave you a real cool link!
It was not Voltaire. It was Robespierre, during the French Revolution. He was a French lawyer, no less.
I prefer cash. What, this wasn't a game show?
Oh well, that's what I found in my quotation source, which is the link in #17. You may be right. It may be wrong. It happens I guess.
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