On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 9:00:39 PM UTC-5 spudb...@aol.com wrote: > The original analogy by the philosopher (forget the name) was Jupiter, > just to be picky. The point is today, we could, if we were rich as Musk, > could physical place a Tea Pot into orbit of whichever Gas Giant you'd > like. My experience is that many scientists hold everyone else as chumps, > including their peers, and devalue collective intelligence of the human > species. Understandable, yet this also is faulty. > > There is no such thing as "common wisdom" of the average man. If there were Don-the-Con t'Rump would not have been elected. The average person is pretty ignorant and half of them are just unintelligent. As George Carlin put it, "Consider how dumb the average person is, and then consider half of people are dumber than that."
LC > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> > To: spudb...@aol.com > Cc: everyth...@googlegroups.com <everyth...@googlegroups.com>; > meeke...@gmail.com <meeke...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wed, Aug 24, 2022 8:19 am > Subject: Re: Christian Adolf and adolfic Christians [was: Re: What > Threshold Threat of CO2] > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 11:33 PM <spudb...@aol.com> wrote: > > > *I don't worship science as a faith. * > > > Neither do scientists. > > > *> On the other hand, this theory hasn't been successfully refuted, yet!* > > > The theory that there is a China teapot in orbit around the planet Uranus > hasn't been refuted either! > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > hbr > > > > -- > 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 everything-li...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1fk1CYV2EYL2o%2B9SQJSr7gH1%2BeWocoWixwoF8KtMnV5Q%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1fk1CYV2EYL2o%2B9SQJSr7gH1%2BeWocoWixwoF8KtMnV5Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/30b53508-45c6-4e07-8f35-a12965fe693an%40googlegroups.com.
