RE: Global Warming: Long term observations yield unsurprising results
March 5, 2015 at 5:46 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2015 at 5:50 pm by ManMachine.)
(March 5, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(March 5, 2015 at 5:09 am)ManMachine Wrote:
What makes you certain that gaining more control over our environment isn't evolutionary progress?
Progress? Against what? There isn't some Universal unit we measure our 'evolutionary progress' by, the very concept is anthropocentric irrelevance and demonstrates my point perfectly.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)