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    Watching a Science Channel show on the universe, and a physicist just remarked how much our understanding of the universe is changing. Yet every step along the way our damn-sure scientists have told us they are certain how the world works. C'mon Pete, stop dreaming that everything they tell you is truth.

    ETA: Oh, and just delivered in a cute Brit accent in an ad for an upcoming show about Space: "We've been looking at things completely wrong until now".

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    No.

    It's making fun of you and your buddies who run around claiming that the earth is going to erupt into a molten fireball - or it's going to become one gigantic glacier.

    You can't decide which direction we're going to suddenly lurch to, but that doesn't stop you from screaming bloody murder about it.

    In the meantime, as the earth continues to spin, the cartoon illustrates how most of us view your crowd : Silly hippies spouting the same nonsense year after year, and nothing ever comes to fruition.
    Amen. These "climatologist" scientists can't make up their minds, but get mad if you don't believe everything they say. I remember all the predictions of global cooling and the planet freezing. I also remember less than 10 years ago when these pretentious scientists were using the term "global warming". Then they sheepishly decided to morph that term into "climate change" when they noticed that much of the planet was actually getting colder winters, or even colder weather entirely. And they pretended like that was what they had expected all along.

    Here's my quote of the day: "Climate scientists - often wrong, but always sure"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    Amen. These "climatologist" scientists can't make up their minds, but get mad if you don't believe everything they say. I remember all the predictions of global cooling and the planet freezing. I also remember less than 10 years ago when these pretentious scientists were using the term "global warming". Then they sheepishly decided to morph that term into "climate change" when they noticed that much of the planet was actually getting colder winters, or even colder weather entirely. And they pretended like that was what they had expected all along.

    Here's my quote of the day: "Climate scientists - often wrong, but always sure"

    Aren't you supposed to be giving your lovely lady a Pedicure right now? Or doing Laundry?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voted4Reagan View Post
    Aren't you supposed to be giving your lovely lady a Pedicure right now? Or doing Laundry?

    Back to the Housework Huckleberry...

    Stir the pot much, do ya?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voted4Reagan View Post
    Aren't you supposed to be giving your lovely lady a Pedicure right now? Or doing Laundry?

    Back to the Housework Huckleberry...


    Hmmm... I could probably be saying the same thing back atcha...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    Hmmm... I could probably be saying the same thing back atcha...
    Easily. I almost can't wait for Jim or Jeff to log on.
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    Russ makes me happy in other ways.
    After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    I refuse to believe you are this daft. The cartoon suggests that those statements were scientific consensus at those dates which is patently false. Certainly there were reports and news items with similar statements, but so what. I can find you a news item today how Big Foot has been sighted. Many predictions are wrong, many scientists have been wrong, that doesn't make the overall science wrong. Look at science history man. This is extreme biased cherry picking.
    Really, Pete ? Well, it doesn't do a lot to prove it RIGHT, either ... eh ?

    If the 'overall science' doesn't fit, or create worthwhile prognostications made on its behalf .. then WHY maintain any degree of faith in it ? Because Al Gore (Leftie) tells you to ... ??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Russ makes me happy in other ways.
    You don't get a say in this one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    Many predictions are wrong, many scientists have been wrong, that doesn't make the overall science wrong.
    And this from someone who complains that OTHERS use cartoon-like dialogue to make a point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    Hmmm... I could probably be saying the same thing back atcha...
    Sent her out for the Pedicure....

    I got the Laundry tomorrow
    You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voted4Reagan View Post
    Sent her out for the Pedicure....

    I got the Laundry tomorrow
    Screw you. Laundry was today. Damned dishes tomorrow early tomorrow AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Watching a Science Channel show on the universe, and a physicist just remarked how much our understanding of the universe is changing. Yet every step along the way our damn-sure scientists have told us they are certain how the world works. C'mon Pete, stop dreaming that everything they tell you is truth.

    ETA: Oh, and just delivered in a cute Brit accent in an ad for an upcoming show about Space: "We've been looking at things completely wrong until now".

    Science is always refining itself, yes, that is the amazing part of science and why we have the technologies we have today. What is your point? Of course we are scratching the surface of understanding the universe, but you act like we know nothing. Look around you. The world is built from science.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drummond View Post
    Really, Pete ? Well, it doesn't do a lot to prove it RIGHT, either ... eh ?

    If the 'overall science' doesn't fit, or create worthwhile prognostications made on its behalf .. then WHY maintain any degree of faith in it ? Because Al Gore (Leftie) tells you to ... ??
    The prophesying of future events is always tricky and not always scientific. I am not always a fan of it.

    Some of you mix politics with the science. You disagree with the politics and then lump the science into it. I care not for the politics. Don't drag the scientists into it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    Science is always refining itself, yes, that is the amazing part of science and why we have the technologies we have today. What is your point? Of course we are scratching the surface of understanding the universe, but you act like we know nothing. Look around you. The world is built from science.
    The world is because it's man's understanding based on the restrictions of man's knowledge. That does NOT mean the universe is under the same rules. People crack me up on this topic.

    You want to believe in scientific theory but not God when there's as much evidence to support one as the other. Once science turns to conjecture it's just another religion. The only conclusion I have come up with is why people would choose scientific theory over God is they just don't want to have to answer to Him in the end and delude themselves into thinking they can opt out with a bunch of lame crap that sounds worse than a religion.
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