Sue Wrote:
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> JimLewandowski Wrote:
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> > Since you weren't involved in the prior
> thread.
> >
> > Do you think that by Brown even stating
> which
> > parts of his book are undisputed facts and
> > classifying the others as beliefs would
> really
> > have an iota of impact on the average
> reader?
>
> Jim, I doubt if you're directing this question to
> me, but
> I feel like saying something about it anyway.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "the average
> reader," but
> any kind of reader can have spots where they can
> think
> clearly and make rational choices and conclusions,
> and
> places where they cannot think clearly and figure
> things
> out based on good information, even when faced
> with it.
>
> I don't have a problem with people who believe
> some wacky
> notions or follow some authors whose research
> might be iffy,
> as long as it doesn't hurt others or society. But
> when it comes
> to realtime current events and problems, I get
> very worried when
> seemingly intelligent, rational people cannot
> accept reality or facts
> on the ground like evolution, the Holocaust, the
> causes of AIDS,
> or global warming.

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I get worried too, but realize it's completely peoples' right to believe anything they want.


>
> I like Michael Crichton's books and movies.. but I
> think his views
> on global warming are truly misguided and
> dangerous.

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Would you lump in Bjorn Lomborg in that group also? I've browsed the Skeptical Environmentalist at the library and agree wholly with Lomborg's position: get used to climate change and spend money where it's needed NOW.

JL

>
> Sue
>




Shephard of Hermas - 2[79]:2 Now this rock was ancient, and had a gate hewn out of it; but the gate seemed to me to have been hewed out quite recently. And the gate glistened beyond the brightness of the sun, so that I marvelled at the brightness of the gate.