Mr. Meaner, I don’t make the rules, I just link to them. Think about it though, do you really want Musing and I to be able to have tax exempt status by declaring ourselves a church? Who would pay for your unnecessary wars??

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an excellent catch!! I have been looking for this reference for several years!!

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http://www.legalzoom.com/articles/article_content/article14814.html

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That doesn’t make any sense. A church is defined as a gathering of two or more believers — not by its ability to send representatives to conferences.

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How can global warming have priests if it doesn’t have enough theologians to show up at a conference?

Remember, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Your people could be called fortune tellers and voodoo practitioners. The skeptics say, there’s nothing wrong with carbon emissions that can’t be solved by the wealth that we’ll get from more carbon emissions, which will enable us to afford the air conditioners, the urban parks and water features, the sea walls and u-haul trailers, and the plywood and huricane evacuation routes which we’ll need as our climate warm up.

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Remember, scientists get very large sums of money from the Templeton Foundation for saying nice about religion. In this case, deism. Which ain’t enough, is it?

As I understand his op-ed piece, Davies says contemporary science is faith-based religion and bogus science because it doesn’t explain how the laws of the universe originated. He reasons that if you can’t explain the origin of something, you accept its existence irrationally and upon faith, by appealing to an unknown “agency.” Nonsense.

The fact that science makes assumptions about the operation of physical laws doesn’t mean scientists are exercising faith. Einstein assumed that the laws of physics are the same in different frames of reference. But that theory was tested and validated, not “believed.” As soon as Davies builds a theory for the origins of the laws of physics within the universe itself, scientists will replicate and accept it. Religion won’t, however.

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http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/04/29/is-global-warming-solar-induced/

I think it fair then to ask for the data which some are using to suggest a general warming of the solar system as a whole.

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