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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2516
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 1:03 pm: | 
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http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-nasa9feb09,0,6858260.story?track=toth tml |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 4486
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 1:48 pm: |
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I read that Hanson article. It was worrisome. Anyhow, thank G*d for small favors. |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3031
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 1:50 pm: |
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Does he have a side job with any male escort services?  |
Andrew N de la Torre
Citizen
Username: Delatorre
Post Number: 431
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 1:51 pm: |
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So what else would you expect from a Bush political appointee? Mention of Deutsch's efforts were posted on the global warming thread. Expectedly, didn't get a response from the MOL's right wing faction |
themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2517
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 2:07 pm: |
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Imagine if you were a scientist and this 24 year old started leaning on you?
There are some of his college articles online somewhere. They are unbelievably callow and dumb. |
drewdix
Citizen
Username: Drewdix
Post Number: 1116
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 2:44 pm: |
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"They are unbelievably callow and dumb."
Consistency from beginning to end- beginning with the Puppet In Chief (or, The Fish Rots From the Head) |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4326
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 6:34 pm: |
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Quote:Deutsch also was linked to a headquarters advisory issued in October ordering that the word "theory" be added after every mention of the big bang, which proposes that the universe began with a gigantic explosion.
The newspaper said it had obtained a memo in which Deutsch wrote that the big bang was "not proven fact; it is opinion."
"It is not NASA's place, nor should it be, to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator," Deutsch is quoted as saying in the memo. "This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue."
If it's NASA, it's a science issue. Do we really want to get into faith-based physics? Theory of Gravity?
Anyway, allowing for poetic license (earth = universe), I don't see anything in the first few verses of Genesis that necessarily contradicts the Big Bang Theory. "Let there be light." Bang. God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to try and explain astrophysics to a bronze-age culture wandering the desert in 3000BC.
Here's a Theory: you can't be too stupid to work in the Bush administration. Or to support them.
Meanwhile, I'm heartened to see that some of the evangelical groups are finally getting on the global warming bandwagon. It shows a refreshing and frankly Christian viewpoint that this is the world we live in, and these are the people we share it with; let's take care of it.
Fundamentalist Christian doctrine stresses that our bodies are temples -- so how much more the environment that sustains them, after all? Mr. Dobson et al have another agenda, which I don't even want to consider. But I think these are guys who treat the LeHaye books like tomorrow's headlines. |
Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 939
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 9:32 pm: |
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"But I think these are guys who treat the LeHaye books like tomorrow's headlines. "
I think you would be right-- 100% These are extremists. Dominionists. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4328
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 10:12 pm: |
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Dominionism lines up too comfortably with massive budget deficits and pillaging the environment, don't you think?
Cuts in any program that would make a better future. Tax cuts are positioned as leading to growth, but they're really for here and now. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1500
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:57 am: |
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Maybe Mr Deutsch was such a monkish devotee to the administration and his job that he had no social life whatever, and any "bang," big or otherwise, might just be theory to him anyway.
Add him to the growing list of certifiably incompetent workers toiling in the fields of the Bush administration: Brown, Miers (the putative SC nominee, no less) Myers (at ICE), L.Paul Bremer, the former "viceroy" of Iraq, and the medical jerk who keeps correcting Dick Cheney's cardiac problems (in Cheney's case, I would have the Hippocratic oath changed, to read "first, do some harm.") |
Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 946
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 1:46 pm: |
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"Dominionism lines up too comfortably with massive budget deficits and pillaging the environment, don't you think? "
Like a hand in a glove. |
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