Re: Global Warming is a religious belief
From: R Philip Dowds (rpdowds_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/23/04
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:55:08 GMT
Well, I guess I misread some posts, and we're all much closer to
agreement than I first supposed. Under these more congenial
circumstances, we'll never have cause to introduce insults into our
exchanges. This brightens my day.
RPD / Cambridge
Facts can be your friends if you treat them right.
W. D. Allen Sr. wrote:
> "...some people hope to conclude that evolution, plate tectonics, and global
> warming are each beyond the reach of science and systematic
> understanding...."
>
> Just who are these "some people" you talk about? so far there has been NO
> ONE in this news group who has made such an ridiculous, only you by way of
> projecting on others what they have NEVER said. There's a hell of a lot of
> science that can not be experimented under "controlled conditions" but we
> still mange to discover laws that apply!. Don't think so, then how do we
> know anything at all about the weather? We sure as hell can't control it!
> Yet!
>
> "Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and be
> proven so!"
>
> end
>
>
> "R Philip Dowds" <rpdowds@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:gT4yd.8288$yK.4967@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>
>>don findlay wrote:
>>
>>...
>>
>>
>>>Really? Have you come across plate tectonics? The "Everybody Knows"
>>>version.
>>>
>>
>>Actually, in a recent thread elsewhere, I wrote at length about the
>>theories of evolution and of plate tectonics, noting that as with the
>>theory of global warming, the confirmatory luxury of repetitive
>>experimentation under controlled conditions is denied us. Because
>>controlled experiments aren't possible, some people hope to conclude that
>>evolution, plate tectonics, and global warming are each beyond the reach
>>of science and systematic understanding.
>>
>>RPD / Cambridge
>>Facts can be your friends if you treat them right.
>>
>
>
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