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Actually I don't think the oil industry funds most skeptics. I do think that many have gotten money from oil industries or from vested interests, but not enough to call it a conspiracy. I'm just pointing out that you can't tell us that there's some "global warming industry" that funds the...

LOL. I don't think it says that actually. The second law of thermodynamics is limited to closed systems (the earth is NOT a closed system...do you see the sun? Yeah, that shoots that idea). And further more the Second Law does not relate to "determinism", it relates to how energy can be...

"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort - Scientific American So you think the US Government is this "climate change industry"? LOL. Ummm, yeah. Right. Sorry, Brewmama, but the US Government's funding of science through things like the NSF doesn't start off giving money...

Oh my! It doesn't just apply to thermo! It applies to integrals as well. "State Functions" is a concept that can be applied outside of thermo! I am surprised! For someone such as yourself who claimed earlier to be capable of designing things others wouldn't do, you seem unfamiliar with...

Go back and read my original post: I EXPLICITLY said "in science". Or perhaps your failure to read the post as written? Wrong! I honestly thought you would know about state functions. What? :confused: Thaumaturgy...that's something to do with miracles isn't it? I know language pretty...

LOL! Ok. Because her writing is a means of promulgating her philosophy. At what point did I call her a "poor philosopher"? I'm not the one who thinks her philosophy is so foundationally flawed yet "respect" her writing on that topic! LOL! I found her philosophical stance to be...

Actually you are wrong. Exxon used to fund a LOT of "climate skeptics" and recently WIllie Soon, a prominent scientist who is "skeptical" of AGW was found to have his hands in the same petro cookie jar. Since I know where a lot of science funding on climate topics comes from, would you care...

Then you must find AGW Skepticism to be rotten to the core as well! Willie Soon took oodles of oil company money. HERE Or does it not count when it confirms your bias?

Clearly. It is sad that our education system these days is so lax isn't it? So do I! I don't believe Christ even existed! And I'm sort of the opinion that if he did sacrifice himself on our behalf it made him happy to please his Father in heaven thereby making a non-sacrifice (it wasn't...

I'm not aware...can you tell me? Because if you think they are correct, how could they possibly go afoul of CF rules? Ayn Rand is, by definition, a "philosophical topic". Atlas Shrugged is nothing more than a naked fictional scaffolding on which to develop the ideas of Objectivism...

I think in this case it really wasn't even THAT noble a cause. I think we got a peek behind the curtain here and realized that even the GOP doesn't think DHS is necessary! The GOP likes to tell us how bad the world is and how America needs to be safe. Which is why Obama is so bad because...

I think this is quite true. It was a no-win situation for the GOP on this one. If they want to rally the "troops" for 2016 it will require that they bring out the Politician's Best Friend: FEAR. And one can't really scare their own electorate if they just got done beating up on the one...

Can I ask why you seem to have a war with science? You act as if the Bible answered all the questions and then scientists came along and took credit. But I can't help but notice that the Bible was the PRIMARY BOOK OF ALL BOOKS and was, in large part, the basis for much of society during the...

America is powerful because we have almost an entire continent and it is at the right latitude to have massive agricultural regions, plenty of water (in places) and lots of natural resources. We uitilized warfare to take it from the original inhabitants. As another poster noted we also were...

If I am not mistaken the poster was referencing Ayn Rand's core philosophy that was embodied in Galt's oath: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” And how that relates directly to the posted quote from...

At this point this has been explained to Heissonear so many times that it makes you wonder WHO is really the "extremist"? Heissonear doesn't seem to be able to understad that the temperatures the climate scientists talk about are GRIDDED AVERAGE ANOMALIES meaning they are related to the...

Sounds to me like a central thesis of A.S. You have John Galt and his buds who all feel put upon by the lesser socialists who simply take and take and take and demand more and more from them and their greatness. But yet that is precisely what I hear when I hear Rand fans speak about the...

I am fascinated that Christians could find Ayn Rand to be compelling, but not really surprised that Conservative (Political) Christians on this forum would like some of her stuff if only because on Christian Forums it seems that the brand of Christian Conservative really DOES know how important...

You are wrong. This is why the scientists rely on statistical analysis. It keeps people from misrepresenting the science by simply blowing up the scale of the graph. If you honestly think that real scientists are bamboozled by this little game then you don't know scientists very well. A...

This is an appeal to "incredulity" on your part. The increase in the temperature over the last 150 years is real. Regardless of alarmed one is by it or not. The issue is that apparently, with something like 95% confidence science is telling us it is our fault and we kind of know exactly what...