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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why peoples don't believe in Global Warming... |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2010, 10:31 am
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ruveyn wrote: I have read the journal articles. When I see science comparable to quantum electrodynamics then I will believe the results. I have high standards. Apparently you do not.
Yes, everything must come out to 15 decimal places or it's not science.
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why peoples don't believe in Global Warming... |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2010, 10:23 am
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| Even when you don't understand everything about a system, and even when its exact state is sensitive to initial conditions, you can often find empirical regularities in it. This brings me to my next point. We have found such a regularity, and that was the main point of my post, which you didn't add... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why peoples don't believe in Global Warming... |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2010, 10:17 am
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| Though your intent seems to be to cast general doubt on the conclusions of the science (as if scientists never considered the degree of uncertainty they have in their conclusions), this much is true, and it's one reason that lots of people espouse taking precautions and not dithering the actual inp... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why peoples don't believe in Global Warming... |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2010, 2:00 pm
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| What bores me is people who believe in "global warming" or Saddam's "Weapons of mass destruction" or " 9/11 " or "Iran's nukes" are thought to be idiots. I am so far beyond those things that even debating them seems like going back in time. But I forget that half my fellow citizens are on the left ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why peoples don't believe in Global Warming... |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2010, 1:53 pm
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| So the fact is we have had global warming since around 1850 c.e. give or take a bit. That is a fact. The question is why? The IPCC and the Chickent Little Sky is Warming People want to convince us that it is mainly due to human activity. HOWEVER they have NOT eliminated as cause the natural factors... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: It's amazing what NTs will fall for |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 9:58 pm
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Isn't labeling them "NT"s just an unfounded assumption?
I don't see where you're making the connection. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What is the Definition of Science? |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 5:01 am
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PLA wrote: Well, the hypothesis can be accepted as a thesis, and then join other thesae (I'm guessing the grammar, don't hurt me.) to form a theory.
I could not resist.
"Theses" is plural.
*Twists arm sadistically.* |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: orwell's 1984 and the early theories of wilhelm reich |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 4:59 am
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| ... but IMO it is how a society sees reality that determines the structure of a languge... i would have to disagree with this, it appears fairly obvious to me that language determines the mindset of a society. strangely your next post seems to concur with this. I'm not sure his next post does concu... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What does it mean to be neurotypical? |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 3:35 am
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| :?: A member asked me what does it mean to be NT ? I told him that the definition meant Neurotypical... but while thinking about this term.. I was thinking.. what exactly does Neurotypical mean.. who is neurotypical? I don't just mean 'not on the spectrum' I mean who is to say or define this, and w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: question for religious people |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 2:36 am
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| The best way to live is to live as if you are in control. No use in just sitting around. However, no one living is ever in control. :study: You sound like a practical determinist. I consider myself one too (though my specific type of determinism, and my reason for it are almost certainly different)... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: question for religious people |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 2:29 am
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| Bismillah is a prayer/supplication, at least from what I understand. It is also an acknowledgment. What do you mean by making a false statement? I meant to ask whether you believe that a statement like "Allah is merciful," is false because, if it is true, then I guess I don't see how "merciful" is ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who gave these rules? |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 2:14 am
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| Bad argument. Animals can't consent, they aren't sapient. This might be compelling to a vegetarian (I have no idea if you're one or not), but eating animals is well enough within the societal norm, that this can't be considered the primary reason that bestiality is abhorred, especially when not all... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who gave these rules? |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 1:26 am
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| Moses gave these rules for very good reasons. Namely, in-breeding. The children of Israel would not have looked very good with webbed toes and no chins, and besides, it would also weaken them through genetic defects. Which makes me wonder, just out of speculation, which of the tribes were the Ashke... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who gave these rules? |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 1:21 am
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| Regarding the gay debate, Andrea Camperio-Ciani, a researcher at the University of Padua in Italy, has come up with a few interesting studies as to why men being gay makes sense. Originally, he was trying to figure out if the X chromosome had anything to do with the gay phenotype, by seeing if gay ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: question for religious people |
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 1:00 am
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| Fundamentally, Allah is Allah. Everything else are descriptions (even the title Allah for the ineffable). What I mean by attributes is the declaration of the Creator being this and this, or this and that only . When doing such, conflict arises because people will begin to wonder "ar-Rahman? If he w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: question for religious people |
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 11:39 pm
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| A monotheistic religion is just that; One. If the Lord was multiple then you can apply attributes. But He is One. What you are arguing is on the basis of your emotions and has nothing to do with Him. Islam's pretty clearly monotheistic, but all but one chapter of the Qur'an starts by applying attri... |
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