Litmus
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It's an appeal to authority based on a person being designated as a scientist. Scientists can also be corrupted to lie, just like any other person, and they have been.
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It's an appeal to authority based on a person being designated as a scientist. Scientists can also be corrupted to lie, just like any other person, and they have been.
That does not make science a "religion"...which is what you asserted.
Get your shit in order.
Litmus
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It's scientism, The religious worship of scientists and their utterances, devoid of personal reasoning and in spite of possible corruption or wrongness of scientists themselves.
Logically it's the logical fallacy of appealing to authority, like the infallibility of the pope.
C'mon, Ass...get real.
If you know of people who engage in "the religious worship of scientists and their utterances"...bring them forth for questioning.
I know of no such people.
Bring forth the people who claim scientists cannot be corrupted...or wrong.
You sound to me as though you have a hard-on for scientists...and are indulging it with absurd statements about how people feel about science.
If you have an argument with the pope...take it up with him.
If you have an argument with science...let's discuss it.
"Science" is the reason we can send a package from Earth to Saturn to take a picture of a particular spot on one of its moons.
Jesus H. Christ...that is pretty damned impressive compared with the "prayer can move mountains" bullshit that sees NO MOUNTAINS EVER BEING MOVED.
Litmus
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Man made global warming idiots
Jesus H. Christ, Ass.
Can you occasionally post something that makes sense. Just so we know you can actually do it.
Litmus
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Science is not based on polling favored scientists, and discounting minority voices.
The Earth is located, on average, approximately 93,000,000 from the sun.
Like Scientology.
Nope. "Science" is a discipline open to study and understanding by anyone. Religion requires a belief in a deity or some unseen and unprovable higher power whether or not it includes priests. If you have taken any science classes you should be able to read typical science journal documents and discern for yourself whether or not the data and conclusions presented are accurate. Keep in mind also that when a scientist presents new findings and conclusions, that his/her work is subject to testing and validation by other scientists in that field.
You can't say the same about a claim about a god and/or a religious belief.
Litmus
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But if laypeople just take the word of a few scientists without looking into the facts themselves, it becomes the logical fallacy of appealing to authority, making it just as susceptible to abuse as religion.
And not even all scientists agree on agw.
So the envirohoax, depends on cherry-picking, and the logical fallacy of appealing to authority.
Lots of conspiracies turn out to be true. https://www.parcast.com/blog/2018/3/26/10-government-conspiracy-theories-revealed-to-be-true
Litmus
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Yep. In fact, to assert the world isn't run by elite families in the finance and war industry seems stupid to me.
Lightbringer
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^^^This.
The conspiracy theories are actually most accurate. History does not unfold in random direction. Governments control everything that happens in their nation for the sake of security, and seek to do the same with rival nations. The 9/11 attack was an inside job. The war had been planned years in advance. They needed an excuse. And just think. Bush got to finish what daddy started. All too fitting. It was not random, but planned.