Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Apr 2014, at 19:05, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Apr 2014, at 11:44, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 4 April 2014 20:33, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Stathis

Re: My scepticism took a small knock today

2014-04-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Probably you saw people visiting houses in your neighbourhood, but that did not reached consciousnees you were busy thinking about other things. (I will not insert here these funny videos of people failing to recognize a bear in the middle of a scene). But according with a theory of evolutionary

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Apr 2014, at 19:32, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 02 Apr 2014, at 23:03, LizR wrote: On 3 April 2014 05:56, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: -Original Message- From:

Re: My scepticism took a small knock today

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Apr 2014, at 07:13, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:42:10AM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: Finally you got to it. It was a precognitive dream. I have had many, an enormous number throughout my life in fact, so I don't think we need to beat about the bush here. Some

Re: My scepticism took a small knock today

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2014, at 12:44, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:00 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Last night just before I woke up I had a dream about a guy coming to the door selling religion, so to speak - the details were a bit weird, as in most dreams, but that was the

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Apr 2014, at 06:47, meekerdb wrote: On 4/5/2014 4:18 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net 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

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread Kim Jones
On 6 Apr 2014, at 5:40 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: So do you classify religion as a conspiracy? Do you think clergy are really all atheists and are just conspiring to fool others? I am pretty sure of this. Do you think that a christian believer of the top would protect

Re: My scepticism took a small knock today

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 5 April 2014 23:44, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:00 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Last night just before I woke up I had a dream about a guy coming to the door selling religion, so to speak - the details were a bit weird, as in most dreams,

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2014, at 16:19, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:47 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't narrow it down too much. Je m'accuse. I was one of them. My point was

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2014, at 12:30, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:47 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't narrow it down too much. Je m'accuse. I was one of them. My point was that conspiracy theories, in the sense of power elites secretly cooperating to further their

Re: My scepticism took a small knock today

2014-04-06 Thread Richard Ruquist
Boris Iskatov has derived a Quantum Information Theory from Dirac Eq. based on reality being (in part) a gas of microleptons (which is consistent with Brandenburger's String Gas Cosmology) That predicts that weak signals/information can leak back from the future and the past. His theory is not

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread Samiya Illias
Bruno, Is French your first language? If so, you can download the original French book by Dr Maurice Bucaille from the following link: http://www.islamic-invitation.com/downloads/Bible-Quran-Science_fr.pdf This study was made many years ago. If this inspires you, perhaps you can give a fresh look

Re: Video of VCR

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2014, at 19:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, April 4, 2014 2:07:47 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Apr 2014, at 03:40, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, April 3, 2014 2:34:06 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: I'm not confusing them, I'm saying that []~comp is not untrue

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Friends, Is there a single objective definition of damage to the environment? On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Apr 2014, at 19:32, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 02 Apr

Re: Video of VCR

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2014, at 19:40, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, April 4, 2014 2:07:47 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Apr 2014, at 03:40, Craig Weinberg wrote: Logic is just required to be able to argue with others, and you do use it, it seems to me, except that you seem to

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: Shall we do the math now . Yes lets. 150GW * 8670 (hours/year) Actually 24 times 365 is 8760 not 8670; and if you want to get technical a year is a little more than 365 days so it's really 8766 hours, but

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Apr 2014, at 13:00, Kim Jones wrote: On 6 Apr 2014, at 5:40 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: So do you classify religion as a conspiracy? Do you think clergy are really all atheists and are just conspiring to fool others? I am pretty sure of this. Do you think that a

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 12:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Apr 2014, at 06:47, meekerdb wrote: On 4/5/2014 4:18 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/5/2014 3:54 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Sure, I

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 1:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Prohibition seems to me to have been planned in advance by bandits to get power, with the complicity of some special interest. They failed with alcohol, but succeeded with marijuana. Your reasoning would imply that prohibiting anything is a secret

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Samiya, On 06 Apr 2014, at 15:41, Samiya Illias wrote: Bruno, Is French your first language? Not really. (Born in Germany, german/polish nurse). If so, you can download the original French book by Dr Maurice Bucaille from the following link:

RE: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
Good question. There are so many metrics. A given environments bio-diversity for example (although bio-diversity ranges widely from place to place - a single valley in a bio-diversity hot spot in some place like Costa Rica can have a greater variety of species than an entire region of arboreal

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
What do all these have in common? Boil it down to the essence. On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: Good question. There are so many metrics. A given environments bio-diversity for example (although bio-diversity ranges widely from place to place - a

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:47 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/5/2014 4:18 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/5/2014 3:54 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Sure, I also find it quite likely that powerful fossil fuel

RE: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 10:48 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Climate models On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 11:36 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:47 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/5/2014 4:18 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread John Mikes
Samiya Illias, you took up an honorable position and will be rewarded for it in the afterlife - if there is an afterlife. A friend (almost reaching the title of Catholic Priest) said in a similar discussion: It means so little mental investment to BELIVE and the reward is so great (eternal bliss)

RE: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread chris peck
The real story here is that a peer reviewed journal was intimidated into withdrawing a paper that had passed through the proper review channels. That the internet is full of conspiracy theory isn't news. And to the extent that climate science denial is correlated with beliefs in conspiracy

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 3:18 PM, John Mikes wrote: Samiya Illias, you took up an honorable position and will be rewarded for it in the afterlife - if there is an afterlife. A friend (almost reaching the title of Catholic Priest) said in a similar discussion: It means so little mental investment to BELIVE

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 4:08 PM, chris peck wrote: The real story here is that a peer reviewed journal was intimidated into withdrawing a paper that had passed through the proper review channels. That the internet is full of conspiracy theory isn't news. And to the extent that climate science denial is

RE: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Paul King What do all these have in common? Boil it down to the essence. If it were that easy J An ecosystem is an emergent phenomena. a whole that is more than and cannot be

RE: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread chris peck
Brent If 100% of scientists were in agreement about climate change, that fact alone, tells me nothing about the truth of the claims they actually make. You probably didn't test the germ theory of disease or conservation of energy either. Yes, and my great great great great great grand parents

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Chris, Given the complexity that you have pointed out, is it a legitimate expectation to assume that it is even possible to define regulations that are not disruptive and themselves harmful? My point is that we should be very careful in our thinking about environmental issues to be sure that

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 5:35 PM, chris peck wrote: Brent If 100% of scientists were in agreement about climate change, that fact alone, tells me nothing about the truth of the claims they actually make. So does the agreement of physicists at CERN tell you nothing about whether the Higgs boson exists?

RE: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread chris peck
So does the agreement of physicists at CERN tell you nothing about whether the Higgs boson exists? It tells me absolutely nothing. Im interested in why they agree not that they agree. How do you know that - did you take someone's word for it? Was it a scientist? Assuming you are

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
I'm not sure what I did wrong that led to this thread being immediately hijacked by religion - surely the possibility of crows exhibiting a similar type of intelligence to humans (albeit in a lesser degree) is a more interesting subject than some ideas people made up millennia ago in an attempt to

Re: The Shale unconventional oil play is just a bubble (and one that is about to burst) -- reserves have been wildly overstated.

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 5 April 2014 09:43, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hear, Hear! Sadly, we (collectively speaking) keep buying the smooth talk and shiny baubles they promise and keep electing them. Trouble is they only give us a few choices (or only two if you don't have proportional

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 14:32, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: So does the agreement of physicists at CERN tell you nothing about whether the Higgs boson exists? It tells me absolutely nothing. Im interested in why they agree not that they agree. They agree because the equipment they

RE: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread chris peck
They agree because the equipment they used produced a signal they interpreted using their best available theories as indicating the existence of the Higgs. Right I see. So the physicists at cern don't count the number of people who are in agreement, they actually do look at equipment now

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 05:18, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Friends, Is there a single objective definition of damage to the environment? Given the complexity of the environment, I very much doubt it. There are some proxies for it, of course, e.g. rate of species

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 05:47, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: What the hell? You're confusing the difference between power and energy, they are not the same thing and if you insist on multiplying the capacity of your solar cells by a factor of 8670 (or even a 8760 ) then I can multiply

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 12:45, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Chris, Given the complexity that you have pointed out, is it a legitimate expectation to assume that it is even possible to define regulations that are not disruptive and themselves harmful? My point is that we

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread Samiya Illias
Hey Liz, I was simply trying to point out that some truths that science is discovering now we have already known through our scripture since centuries. And that the scripture is also a credible source for taking hints and clues about the world and then using intelligence and research to explore

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread Samiya Illias
John, your friend's position sounds almost like Pascal's wager: personally I think its a poor reason to believe, if it can at all be considered belief. I know it would be 'the smart thing to do', 'playing it safe', etc, but I think faith and belief require a major mental investment: its requires

Re: If you can't disprove the science, you can always try suing

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 7:32 PM, chris peck wrote: So does the agreement of physicists at CERN tell you nothing about whether the Higgs boson exists? It tells me absolutely nothing. Im interested in why they agree not that they agree. How do you know that - did you take someone's word for it? Was it

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 7:33 PM, LizR wrote: I'm not sure what I did wrong that led to this thread being immediately hijacked by religion - surely the possibility of crows exhibiting a similar type of intelligence to humans (albeit in a lesser degree) is a more interesting subject than some ideas people

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Liz, My concern is that almost all of the discussion of environmental damage seems to assume that Humanity is somehow a foreign present in the environment, as if we are invaders form space. AFAIK, humans are part of the Earth just as much as rainforests and ants. Why are human activities

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Liz, Why is there no interest in developing tech to get us off the planet? Why is there a retreat into a bunker mentality? On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 11:03 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 April 2014 12:45, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Chris, Given the

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 8:34 PM, Samiya Illias wrote: John, your friend's position sounds almost like Pascal's wager: personally I think its a poor reason to believe, if it can at all be considered belief. I know it would be 'the smart thing to do', 'playing it safe', etc, but I think faith and belief

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 15:43, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/6/2014 7:33 PM, LizR wrote: I'm not sure what I did wrong that led to this thread being immediately hijacked by religion - surely the possibility of crows exhibiting a similar type of intelligence to humans (albeit in a

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 15:24, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Liz, I was simply trying to point out that some truths that science is discovering now we have already known through our scripture since centuries. And that the scripture is also a credible source for taking hints and

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 15:48, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/6/2014 8:34 PM, Samiya Illias wrote: John, your friend's position sounds almost like Pascal's wager: personally I think its a poor reason to believe, if it can at all be considered belief. I know it would be 'the smart thing

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 15:45, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Liz, My concern is that almost all of the discussion of environmental damage seems to assume that Humanity is somehow a foreign present in the environment, as if we are invaders form space. AFAIK, humans are

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread Samiya Illias
Yes, according to my understanding, the text is certainly inspired by higher intelligence (with Divine permission). The study of the Qur'an reveals many 1p and 3p statements. The 1p statements are also of two categories: the singular 1p which we understand largely to be God being quoted, whereas

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread LizR
On 7 April 2014 15:47, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Liz, Why is there no interest in developing tech to get us off the planet? Why is there a retreat into a bunker mentality? I wouldn't say there is no interest - but getting anyone or anything off the planet isn't

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread Samiya Illias
I live in Pakistan. I've published my take on Blasphemy in my blog: http://islam-qna.blogspot.com/2011/01/blasphemy.html - Unless you live in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or some other fundamentalist muslim country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy Brent On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at

Re: Daphne du Maurier was right!

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 9:14 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 April 2014 15:43, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/6/2014 7:33 PM, LizR wrote: I'm not sure what I did wrong that led to this thread being immediately hijacked by religion - surely the possibility of crows

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread meekerdb
On 4/6/2014 9:56 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 April 2014 15:47, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com mailto:stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Liz, Why is there no interest in developing tech to get us off the planet? Why is there a retreat into a bunker mentality? I wouldn't