On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:47 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/5/2014 4:18 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:04 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4/5/2014 3:54 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> Sure, I also find it quite likely that powerful fossil fuel companies are >> lobbying or using even dirtier tricks to discredit AGW theory. On the other >> hand, this says nothing about the truth status of AGW theory. >> >> >> Doesn't it? If it weren't true, then dirty tricks wouldn't be needed >> to discredit it, would they? It could be discredited like the flat earth, >> creationism, and cigarettes-are-good-for-you theories. >> > > If that was true, the world would be free from religious superstition > > > So do you classify religion as a conspiracy? Do you think clergy are > really all atheists and are just conspiring to fool others? > I subscribe Bruno's and Kim's replies. But this is besides the point here. You claimed that, if AGW was false, then oil companies would only need to falsify the models to affect political change. If that were true, then it wouldn't be the case that the majority of the world population is religious, because most religious claims are trivially and publicly falsified by the many fields of modern science, from cosmology to archeology. Telmo. > > Brent > > > and electing a president that claims to believe in a book of old desert > myths would be unthinkable. > > Telmo. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
