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It also took down Dotster.com which hosts my email and website.
“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.”
[of a historical Jesus] “No man can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor that his sayings are beautiful. Even if some them have been said before, no one has expressed them so divinely as he.”
Albert Einstein
Science is the study of God’s work, and religion the study of God Himself. We should not be surprised to find cohesion between science and religion; between a man and his work, so to speak. Would anyone be surprised to find an artist’s fingerprints in their sculpture? Surprised? No, I’d rather expect it. Just as I expect to find God the Artist’s fingerprints upon His sculpture, our natural world.
And what artist would not attend an exhibit of their work? Why would anyone expect God to create and dash? No, I think He is here standing back watching people view His work, listening to their impressions and interpretations, yet open to step up and answer questions when asked.
At least publically, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, appeared to have understood only the science of God and not the religion. I hope privately he asked the Artist a few personal questions regarding faith and religion.
Let’s not be blinded by science without recognizing that the bright light of science is God; the Way, the Truth and the Light
“It took the end right off, down to the bone, about half an inch.
“We don’t know where the piece went.”
Today though, you wouldn’t know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it’s all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.”
The Bellingham Herald blog and others were calling attention to a student who is raising questions regarding political bias in a school text book. The student calls attention to a portion of the text on global warming.
Science doesn’t know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all.
Think Progress refers to the text writers as written by “conservative ideologues” while the AP story merely refers to them as conservative, but also throws in that one of the authors “formerly worked for the Bush administration as director of faith-based initiatives.” I don’t think that description was given to further the discussion on global warming in the text as much as it was there to get President Bush into the picture. Seems fair, what with President Bush killing polar bears and all. The AP story also states that the same book also touches on prayer in school, which of course legal, but not relevant to this discussion.
What I found really cool about this buzz today was that the Herald also ran a story from an interview with local Dr. Easterbrook. While the AP is making statements like
the overwhelming majority of climate scientists and peer-reviewed scientific research say human activity is causing climate change. Last year an international collection of hundreds of scientists and government officials unanimously approved wording that said the scientific community had “very high confidence,” meaning more than 90 percent likelihood, that global warming is caused by humans.
and quoting an expert
Hansen has sent Houghton Mifflin a letter stating that the book’s discussion on global warming contained “a large number of clearly erroneous statements” that give students “the mistaken impression that the scientific evidence of global warming is doubtful and uncertain.”
to bolster their story about how the world is in consensus that man is the cause of global warming; the Herald story with Dr. Easterbrook is proving that the text book is actually correct.
Fluctuations in solar radiation could mean colder weather in the decades ahead, despite all the talk about global warming, retired Western Washington University geologist Don Easterbrook said Tuesday.
Easterbrook is convinced that the threat of global warming from mankind’s carbon dioxide pollution is overblown.
Sounds like there is “whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all.”
And what of this international collection of scientists? First, notice how the consensus committee never assigns a value to how much man may be affecting the climate with CO2. Is there consensus that it is a lot or a little? And what of the 10% minority who didn’t concede? Could they be right?
Let’s consider a few other consensus situations:
So I think, at the very least, it would be prudent to consider that global warming is not all that Al Gore and his Nobel prize winning consensus cracks it up to be; perhaps we should just go ahead and leave the text book in the classroom.
Consensus is consensus, not science.
What about it!