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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
275 Posts |
 Posted - 01/21/2008 : 08:00:41
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I found this video. Have you seen it? I think itīs pretty interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI&eurl
Cheers!
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"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/21/2008 : 08:31:01 [Permalink]
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That's the most logical and profoundly solid argument for taking action that I've ever seen. Thanks!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 01/21/2008 : 12:14:43 [Permalink]
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The flaw in his argument is simple to spot.
He assumes that people are reasonable.
Most of the deniers out there won't admit to uncertainty, so I don't expect a risk analysis of worst case scenarios to sway them. Nor will it sway those who have significant financial ties/investment in the current energy structure.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 01/21/2008 : 15:31:07 [Permalink]
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Yeah, this isn't new-- lots of people (myself included) have made this argument, or some version thereof. But as Dude hinted, deniers-- most of them, anyhow-- do so for reasons that are completely outside of the debate. They have an irrational hatred of government, of regulation, and of international cooperation. This is even mixed in in some crazy way with Christian eschatology, where the Anti-Christ runs some one world government.
So this rational appeal won't work, regardless of how sound it is. |
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