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Re: Have you seen an Atheist who doesn't believe in Global Warming?         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ComandanteBanana
Date: Sep 12, 2008 08:32

On Sep 11, 10:44 pm, Reverend Dave minister.com> wrote:
> ComandanteBanana yahoo.com> wrote in news:33628006-2677-
> 4c21-b5b2-5abf458a5...@73g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:
>
>> This is what my logic tells me: Atheists believe in SCIENCE AND
>> EVOLUTION, which is why they are Atheists.
>
> Wrong. Atheists may well believe in science and evolution but that is not
> necessarily the reason they are atheists although most atheists
> understand science to a greater degree than the general public. I would
> hardly call science a belief - it's a search for verifiable truth.

Many of us choose to "believe" all the time. But you can choose to
believe the "prophets" or the scientists. You can't possibly follow up
all the details, say, of evolution. Common sense helps you a lot too,
of course.
>
>> And so science is also
>> telling us of a clear and unequivocal connection between HUMAN
>> POLLUTION and GLOBAL WARMING.
>
>> It is then the case that those who do NOT believe in Global Warming
>> (yeah, there are many out there) are the same sheep who happen to
>> believe in God. Of course, this belief comes quite handy for their
>> polluting SUVs. Why have any moral qualms about it if there's no
>> Global Warming?
>
> Dude, this ain't news.

The news is WHY they choose to ignore it.
>
>
>
>> Well, this is, like science, only a THEORY, so it remains true until
>> we find many Atheists who do not believe in Global Warming. If they do
>> is because they are trying to blend in with the sheep. ;)
>
> So what's your theory on the huge ice shelves that are sloughing off in
> the Arctic?
>
> http://current.com/items/89269994_4_500_year_old_ice_shelf_breaks_away

I only know a name for it: MANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE.
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