Re: [asa] New foray by the DISCOVER Institute

At 11:24 PM 12/23/2007, PvM wrote:

>Interesting article ... the story of Andrea Yates <quote>"...Andrea
>Yates was such a bad mother that she was causing these children to
>deteriorate and be doomed to the fires of eternal damnation."</quote>
>
><quote>"A primitive understanding of serious concepts such as hell
>or eternal damnation can be very disturbing," Powell says. "Extreme
>fundamentalism ...can be very damaging to a young person."</quote>

@ Talking about fundamentalists, child abusers and "liars for Jesus"
--- your quotes above also relate to the type of scare-mongering that
the "creation care" extremists engage in. The teachings of these
"Jim Jones" wanna-be primitives are directly responsible for causing
little children to have nightmares and women to abort their babies
and sterilize themselves because they heard a preacher say that God
wants us to "save the planet" at all costs - OR ELSE !!

First we have a theologically challenged fundamentalist in the person
of the "Reverend" John ('Unless we announce disasters, no one will
listen' ) Houghton attempting to scare people into believing: "Human
induced global warming is a weapon of mass destruction at least as
dangerous as chemical, nuclear or biological weapons that kills more
people than terrorism." ~ Monday July 28, 2003

The NAE association's vice president of government affairs, the Rev.
Rich Cizik, says that he was also "converted" to the cause by the
end-times doom preaching of Houghton. Mr. Cizik said he had a
'conversion' on climate change so profound in Oxford that he likened
it to an 'altar call,' when nonbelievers accept Jesus as their
savior. Mr. Cizik recently bought a Toyota Prius, a hybrid
vehicle. http://www.cei.org/gencon/014,04484.cfm

"With the publication of [my] article in Science, I gained
significant credibility in the community of scientists working on
climate change. They thought I was one of them, someone who would
pervert science in the service of social and political causes. So
one of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area
of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email
that said, 'We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.'" ...:" ~
David Deming of the College of Geosciences at the University of
Oklahoma relating how his work on borehole temperature data published
in Science in 1995 became politicized.
http://www.cei.org/gencon/014,04484.cfm

*
Then we have the child abuse case in England this year involving Ozone Al:

"Mr Johnson said that influencing the opinions of children was crucial....."

Judge Burton: "I turn to [An Inconvenient Truth] the film. The
following is clear:

"...[The Claimant] .. has established his case that the views in the
film are political by submitting that Mr Gore promotes
an apocalyptic vision, which would be used to influence a vast
array of [behaviors] ...: "

"[Claimant's attorney] Mr Downes, in paragraph 27 of his skeleton
argument, helpfully suggested that there were factors that could be
considered by a court in determining whether the expression or
promotion of a particular view could evidence or indicate partisan
promotion of those views:

"(i) A superficial treatment of the subject matter typified by
portraying factual or philosophical premises as being self-evident or
trite with insufficient explanation or justification and without any
indication that they may be the subject of legitimate controversy;
the misleading use of scientific data; misrepresentations and
half-truths; and one-sidedness.

(ii) The deployment of material in such a way as to prevent pupils
meaningfully testing the veracity of the material and forming an
independent understanding as to how reliable it is.

(iii) The exaltation of protagonists and their motives coupled with
the demonisation of opponents and their motives.

(iv) The derivation of a moral expedient from assumed
consequences requiring the viewer to adopt a particular view and
course of action in order to do "right" as opposed to "wrong."

[snip]
England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) Decisions
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200710/0156.html
The case and the "ruling" had to do with AlGore and his friends'
attempt to "politically indoctrinate" little children with a
scientifically flawed film (Per the judges suggestion, only 9 of the
errors were concentrated on as a part of this court decision).

*

AlGore now has a Nobel Peace Prize to pair with his Academy Award for
"An Inconvenient Truth." But neither accolade makes him any less a liar.

As it did when it gave the prize to Jimmy Carter in 2002, the
Norwegian Nobel Committee honored Mr. Gore and the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to make a left-wing
political statement.

Though it did not mention "An Inconvenient Truth" by name, the
committee spoke glowingly of Mr. Gore's political activity, lectures,
films and books for reducing the "danger of violent conflicts and wars."

The film details Mr. Gore's arguments on global warming, but his
arguments are a tissue of lies. Justice Michael Burton of the High
Court of London used "exaggeration," "apocalyptic vision,"
"distinctly alarmist" and "one-sided" to describe the film. If
teachers show it to students without disclosing those lies or
presenting contrary viewpoints, they could be charged under British
law with the crime of political indoctrination.

Climate experts admitted in court no evidence supports Mr. Gore's
assertions that warming caused Hurricane Katrina, the melting snows
of Mount Kilimanjaro and the bleaching of coral reefs. In the case of
drowning polar bears and the evacuation of some Pacific atolls, they
couldn't even document those phenomena occurred.

The court dismissed as scientific impossibilities Mr. Gore's claims
that sea levels will rise 23 feet in the next century; the Gulf
Stream will stop, throwing Europe into an ice age; and warming will
melt Greenland glaciers quickly, causing sea levels to rise
dangerously. And the suggestion that the Antarctic ice cap is melting
is refuted by "evidence ... that it is in fact increasing," Justice
Burton said.

By endorsing Mr. Gore and his lies, the Nobel committee will not
further its goal of contributing to "a sharper focus on the processes
and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world's
future climate." Rather, it will preclude objective, rational debate
on climate change, and the world will be more dangerous for it. ~
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1910804/posts

Algore. The UN-favored shake-down artist who failed to declare his
financial interest before whipping up worldwide alarm with his
trademark errors and exaggerations. The director of Lehman Brothers,
a global finance house that wants to control the worldwide managed
market in carbon-emissions trading? The one who founded his own
"green" corporation, Generation Investment Management, and is a paid
member of the Board of a renewable-energy company? The one who if in
the UK, made a speech containing so many deliberate and
unidirectional errors as he did in Bali, and failed to declare his
financial interest, would be committing a criminal offence.

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Received on Mon Dec 24 08:41:09 2007