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To: Sam who wrote (69999)	6/1/2008 2:37:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541170

I think you're off base. Zealots lose perspective, get paranoid about challenges, and overreact. How many times here on this thread have you seen someone go off on a righteous rant on some hot button issue only to be told later that he misread. That's what this looks like to me. And that's why they call them "hot buttons." What do you think that means? I've heard the same thing said by other deniers/skeptics/agnostics. I don't know what others might mean. What I read K to mean was that science is always reexamining itself, refining, sometimes upending. That's the way science works. Nothing is sacrosanct, even Newton. And if Newton isn't sacrosanct, then who are these GW poseurs to put themselves above re-examination. I think that K was reacting to the arrogance of claims that the GW science is "a closed issue." That's my take. I could be mistaken. But look at K's language. "If Newton's laws of motion could...be overthrown..." If they could [theoretically] be overthrown. Not "Since Newton's laws of motion have been overthrown..." Krauthammer, for all the complaints about his politics and his frequent displays of dudgeon, has a command of the language. If he had meant that Newton's laws had been overthrown, he would have said so.