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To: neolib who wrote (123704)	7/7/2005 1:07:07 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794033

I’m saying this cautiously, but IMHO that is entirely incorrect. Let me put this in "EE" terms, since that is your specialty. "Maxwell's equations" are axioms, but they can be challenged. If someone sees further than Maxwell, his equations will be modified to allow for the change. We have seen this happening with Newton's laws. The Christians will not allow the axiom of "God" to be challenged. When Tom Paine wrote "Age of Reason," he was denounced from the pulpit of every church in America. Lomberg went after the environmental religion in his book, "The Sceptical Environmentalist." Lomborg describes an environmentalist "litany" that is not backed up by evidence. The litany as summarized by Lomborg in the pages of The Economist [1] has four verses and a refrain: 1) natural resources are running out; 2) the population is growing, leaving less and less to eat; 3) species are becoming extinct in vast numbers, forests are disappearing, and fish stocks are collapsing; 4) air and water pollution are increasing. These verses lead to the refrain that things are getting worse and worse, ecologically speaking. When the environmental religionists went after Lomborg, they launched an "ad hominem" attack against him. They have denounced him from the "pulpit" of every environmental media outlet in the world. Instead of refuting what he said, "Scientists" denounced him as not qualified to publish on the subject. That is why I get a kick out of all the "hoo-haw" from the environmentalists about how "all scientists know that the concept of man causing 'Global Warming' is a proven fact." When Galileo built a telescope and discovered mountains on the moon, "all scientists knew that the concept of the moon as a perfect sphere was a proven fact." After all, Aristotle had said that all celestial objects were perfect spheres, and that made it an axiom. It was Galileo against the world, and we know who won out.