Good Old Neon

I know, cause you've really gotten to know me intimately, as a person, over these last few weeks and months. I'll make a snap judgment here and guess you're a glasses wearing rhesus monkey?

I can honestly say I don

I was being somewhat facetious

Yet, not a single amputee in all recorded medical history....hmmm...

Who, me?

Do you think it is good policy to wait for something to happen rather than plan for it in advance? And what if a reasonable alternative does not exist or can not be engineered in time for its need? You certainly seem to be placing much faith in science, more than I am willing to bet upon in fact. Isn

Yeah, I apologize for the course this thread has taken

As is name calling?

And yet, unfortunately, many of the more, shall we say, crazy ones have the presidents ear

Thanks bob, coming from you, I

The gays?

Now that, sir, is something I could believe in....

The beauty of the scientific method is that it is, for the most part, free of rigid dogma. When a new discovery is made, the scientific community, for the most part, rallies around it - egos may be bruised, but very little else. Can the same be said for religion?

As an atheist I have zero by way of belief in a higher power. Contrary to common misconception, religion was not and is not required to live a moral life. Our sense of what is right and wrong, is, for the most part, a result of evolutionary psychology

But it did at one time, but no longer - because it was proven to be false, like most if not all of what is stated in the bible.

Can you provide us with examples of said journals? Much of what I have read suggests certain individuals have chosen not to have their work peer reviewed, for fear of being outed. Or, because the information was peer reviewed and found to be inaccurate or outright misleading? Oh, and yes, there is a list, and here

It was, at one time, a core belief

It certainly is relevant when it is avoidable. Religion has taken us as far as it can

For individuals, yes, I do think it provides a benefit. However, when the final chapter of the book of man is written, and all is said and done, I fear our end will come by the hand of religion, a fight to the death over whose sky god is the real sky god. And so, in the end, the damage caused by it, religion, will far outweigh any benefits. Our salvation, if it is to come, can only come by the hand of man, and not some ephemeral other.

Hey, at least acorns are real and provide a demonstrable benefit, unlike sky god.

Because there are two standards

Agreed.

Al Gore is simply presenting evidence and data others have compiled

And yet their ultimate finding is that humans are now the direct cause of current and future warming. You've just quoted an organization who is in direct opposition to your current thinking w/r/t climate change. See also (if you haven't already) the following video w/r/t Pascal