Alan,

You are wrong.

"One of the problems with Science is that it relies on consensus and majorities have been known to be wrong." that is your quote. Science is not a consensus. Science is known facts. The problem with global warming is nobody knows for sure wether or not its global climate change or man made global warming.

When something is consensus it is not science it is just a guess. So until someone can prove without a shadow of a doubt that man is responsible for this current change...........it is a crock of crap.


Clark

Aw well we're all gonna punch out that "time clock" anyway sooner or later, might as well put on some shorts, a favorite t-shirt, a little sunscreen, grab a cold beverage, check out the young scantilly clad lovelies and enjoy the weather... 8>)

Heck, yeah, let the kids fend for themselves.

Until the eclipse in 1920(?) empirical proof of Einstein's Theory of relativity ( particularly that gravitational fields bend light ) was not possible. Much of Hawkins' work on black holes was throught by most scientists to be true. Now even Hawkins acknowledges that he was in error. At one time "medical science" thought that the best treatment for mental illness was labondomy. Many of us take Aspirin but no one is quite certain how it works chemically. Any number of theories have been adduced about the origin of the universe but no one can account for all of the matter known to exist without fudging. No one can explain for certain why Newtonian physics does not work on the sub-atomic level but Quantum machanics does not work above the sub-atomic level. There is consensus that the Big Bang explains the origins of the universe but no conclusive proof. Part of the reason we hear so much nonsense from religious zellots about Darwin is that on a human level, despite all the genetic evidence that evolution works it has not been conclusively proven for huamns and is hence considered technically a theory. But the mass of scientists have formed a consensus in favor of its being more than a theory.


There are many instinces in science where there is evidence but no conclusive proof.

Alan

What caused the big bang?

Some Big Guy?

%^)

Same guy that created "The Hokey Pokey".

Getting your post count up Stanley?

If you say so, Mr. Griswald. Along with everyone else here.

purely for post count

Who gives a sh*t about the mornonic post-counts anyway? Can't someone make a quick comment or quip around here without some mouthe breather making reference to post counts? Sometimes I think this site is pretty great, sometimes I think it is full of a bunch of whining, immature, 5th grade educated dullards.

yeah i'm a mouth breater......sweet!!!

Go ahead, kick my dog while your at it.

Could never do that Carl!!! I like most dogs a hell of a lot more than most people.

ceied,

I wasn't saying you were, or the only one, there are a few other a-pipes who get on my ass about the T.C. thing...

I think I need to go for a long drive somewhere... watching that movie last night, (The War Tapes) has me all pissed off.

What's wrong with 5th grade? It was the best 2 years of my life.

Count's up to 908 now, here comes 1000.