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Does Science Have a Magisterium?
The American ^ | December 9, 2009 | Jay Richards

Posted on 12/10/2009 4:24:15 PM PST by GodGunsGuts

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To: melsec
"I trust science without reservation - I’m not too trusting of some scientists or their conclusions though!"

Me too. Figures don't lie, but liars do figure. The problem is when any agenda driven entity, whether YEC or AGW begins to decide what the figures are saying.

41 posted on 12/10/2009 7:37:35 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Just mythoughts
"The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose."

You aren't trying to drag this discussion into a rehash or refutation of heliocentrism are you?

42 posted on 12/10/2009 7:48:49 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: metmom; TexasFreeper2009
There is no unbiased science because there are no unbiased scientists.

Likewise there are no unbiased buyers and sellers. Does this mean there are no unbiased markets?

Of course not. Markets (properly realized) are unbiased setters of prices even though, in that particular case, ALL marketeers are biased, and markedly so.

Your logic is flawed. (Fallacy of Composition/Division) It is not the case that, in order for an institution to be unbiased, that all (or even any) individual participants be unbiased.

43 posted on 12/10/2009 8:09:38 PM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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To: GodGunsGuts

No.

Science has a MAGICSTERICAL, too.

It’s a toss up as to whether the RC’s or Science’s MAGICSTERICAL
is more . . . outrageously silly, obtuse, laughable, distorting of reality, !!!!TRADITION!!!! bound, twisted by narrow power mongering bias . . . etc.


44 posted on 12/10/2009 8:46:53 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED)
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To: Natural Law
You aren't trying to drag this discussion into a rehash or refutation of heliocentrism are you?

Could it not be said these 'climate-warmers' are in fact heliocentricts?.... I posted Solomon's words NOT because of heliocentrism but rather to point out the vanities of flesh man. Solomon says what is, has already been of *OLD* time, of which there is no retrieval memory in the flesh body.

45 posted on 12/10/2009 9:20:31 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: GodGunsGuts

With all science these days you must be very careful to note what are actual facts and what are theories and conjecture masked as facts. Too often much of what you read and see are not facts but are presented as facts. The worst part is that one so called fact is based upon another so called fact. Soon you have to unravel lots of unreliable conclusions before you can get down to the bare facts and you can decide what you believe they may or may not mean.


46 posted on 12/10/2009 10:51:21 PM PST by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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To: Bellflower; Swordmaker; tomzz; wendy1946; medved
"With all science these days you must be very careful to note what are actual facts and what are theories and conjecture masked as facts."

That is a very good reason to stay off the IRC website and to ignore these posts by GGG. You see, GGG is involved in a self declared war with real science because it has rejected his crack pot theories developed, published, and posted over a nearly 30 year stint under many, many names, accounts, and net IDs. Like a petulant child, if he can't have mass adulation by the science community he is going to try his best to strip it away from the likes of Charles Darwin. In his grand scheme, Young Earth Creationists are only useful idiots, to borrow a phrase.

47 posted on 12/11/2009 1:54:28 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: GodGunsGuts

You might want to note that Ben Stein’s film “Expelled” is now being shown on the cable channels. The film documents the manner in which people who speak out against Chuck Darwin’s brain-dead ideology or even so much as mention the fact that there might be competing theories in any sort of a classroom or professional setting are subject to attack by the system and in many cases are having their ability to earn livings impacted. It’s just about to the point where somebody has to be outside of the system to talk about it.


48 posted on 12/11/2009 3:45:08 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: Natural Law

Getting lonely over there at Darwin Central?? Get used to it, it’s gonna get lonelier...


49 posted on 12/11/2009 3:46:51 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: GodGunsGuts; Natural Law; Bellflower; Swordmaker; tomzz; wendy1946; medved

Courtesy ping to GGG to post 47 since it has been neglected........

AGAIN......


50 posted on 12/11/2009 5:22:49 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: GodGunsGuts; Natural Law; Bellflower; Swordmaker; tomzz; wendy1946; medved; Fichori; tpanther; ...
That is a very good reason to stay off the IRC website and to ignore these posts by GGG.

Then why do you keep coming on these threads?

You see, GGG is involved in a self declared war with real science because it has rejected his crack pot theories developed, published, and posted over a nearly 30 year stint under many, many names, accounts, and net IDs. Like a petulant child, if he can't have mass adulation by the science community he is going to try his best to strip it away from the likes of Charles Darwin.

Sources? Got evidence of that?

Nearly 30 years? When was it that Al Gore invented the internet?

51 posted on 12/11/2009 5:28:13 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Natural Law; GodGunsGuts; Bellflower; Swordmaker; tomzz; wendy1946; medved

In case your reading comprehension isn’t what it should be, this is not a article from a creationist website, nor is it religious in nature.

Just because there’s a passing comment about the Catholic Church in it as a comparison, doesn’t mean that it’s religious.

Science as it’s practiced today is in big trouble and the sooner those involved with it quit knee jerk reacting to any recognition of that and start addressing the real problems involved, the better.


52 posted on 12/11/2009 5:32:13 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Natural Law
crack pot theories

Yes, evolution is not a crack pot theory. It is a crack PIPE theory.

53 posted on 12/11/2009 5:47:02 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (There are only two REAL conservatives in America - myself, and my chosen Presidential candidate)
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To: Natural Law

Natural, your ‘Science’, while very useful in everyday life, can not possibly hope to explain all.

Do you REALLY feel that GGG is such a THREAT to the established ‘scientific community’? Would that that would be the case!!

But no, he is not. But the little he does is great and mighty, as he relays information that shows that science can NOT explain all. Information that shows that Darwinists have nothing more than their own belief-system, faith and religion.

Ah, there’s that pesky word again, religion. Natural, you really need to get to know your Creator, in a personal way.

Ding Dong! (Sound of doorbell)


54 posted on 12/11/2009 5:51:02 AM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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To: RoadGumby

LOL. GGG’s no threat to real science...he’s the Art Bell of FR...deadpan serious, with a small group of dedicated followers in his Amen Corner, tossing out wild theories about science complete with incredible conspiracy theories to back up his opinions...it’s a guilty pleasure to read and sometimes irresistible for the real scientists on FR to respond to ...magritte


55 posted on 12/11/2009 6:00:54 AM PST by magritte ("I will give this monkey for lunch to Mr Sata,")
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To: magritte

Art Bell, good one. The ‘Theories’ are based in a Faith. And they are certainly as valid as anything in the ToE.

Yes REAL scientists. The ones who ‘believe’ in a Theory, who have ‘FAith’ that what man says is true, who construct a Theory that can not be proven, then declare it as settled by ‘concensus’.


56 posted on 12/11/2009 6:07:27 AM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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To: RoadGumby

LOL again...scientific theories can never be “proven”...proof is reserved for mathematics...this is one of the reasons that threads like these never get beyond the Art Bell level...Art & the Amen Corner doesn’t have a grasp of the basics of scientific discussions...heck, what fun would it be if they did?...magritte


57 posted on 12/11/2009 6:17:10 AM PST by magritte ("I will give this monkey for lunch to Mr Sata,")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You might find this interesting:

“Climate Change and the Death of Science”

http://buythetruth.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/climate-change-and-the-death-of-science/

Posted before the UEA/CRU revelations, it describes the emergence of a “post-normal science”, one that exists to promote leftist, Marxist ideas of redistribution. Some of the now familiar suspects (Mike Hulme and the UAE crowd) are mentioned.

Interesting comparison between “normal” and “post-normal” science as well.


58 posted on 12/11/2009 6:19:23 AM PST by Palmetto Patriot (Great minds think alike, but then again, so do small minds.)
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To: magritte; RoadGumby
LOL again...scientific theories can never be “proven”...proof is reserved for mathematics...

Then why are they passed off as fact and why the derision against those who don't accept it as fact?

59 posted on 12/11/2009 6:20:13 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: magritte

Never be proven. Never. Well then, you self-admittedly show you have a non-provable-belief. My hats off to you.

While I can not prove to you (today anyway) that the earth and all on it were Created, I do believe it.

So, what’s the deal? You have your belief, I have mine. The difference is that, in general, you may have your evo-faith threads without someone who believes in the Word of God saying much, but a Creationist thread is quickly inundated by those who ridicule.

I pray for those who do, that they may come to know their Creator.


60 posted on 12/11/2009 6:25:14 AM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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