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Discovery Institute Parody 1of5
updated
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Brisbane Skepticamp discussion on engaging with religious fundamentalism.
Danny Jarman is the Vice President of the Atheist Foundation of Australia.
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au
Brisbane Skepticamp is run by the Brisbane Skeptic Society.
http://brisskepticamp.org
facebook.com/brisskepticamp
Father of 6, Ronnie Williams, had the courage to challenge this transparent funding dispersal to religious groups in the High Court of Australia and won. The Federal Government then hastily passed legislation to continue the funding. This is now the subject of the 2nd High Court Challenge.
Please assist Ronnie Williams by donating to help meet the legal costs of this important and historic challenge. All amounts big or small will be extremely appreciated. If you can even spare $10 or $20, please do so. You will be contributing to an initiative of extreme importance.
Details on how to donate are provided at the link below.
http://highcourtchallenge.com/nscp-movie.html
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"I am returning to the High Court of Australia on the 6th,7th and 8th of May 2014. A substantial amount to meet my legal costs and disbursements is yet to be raised. Any assistance between now and the handing-down of the Court's decision will be deeply appreciated. This movie is a whistle-stop tour of possibly the most outrageous political stunt ever foisted upon the taxpayers of Australia."
Atheist Census and Atheist Alliance International thank Peter Caires for video production and Joel Kilgour, Mary Davis and Peter Caires for the voiceovers. The music, "In A Bind" is by Chloe Imogen Sinclair and Darren Sinclair. Chloe Imogen Sinclair is at Reverb Nation and on Facebook.
New York time lapse image from stockfootageforfree.com.
Atheist Census (www.atheistcensus.com) is a project to count and collect information on the world's atheists. Atheist Census is a project of Atheist Alliance International (www.atheistalliance.org).
Original found here http://www.youtube.com/user/SecHummer
Original Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6B4gpgyRI
13-15th April - Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre
Presented by the Atheist Foundation of Australia
http://atheistconvention.org.au
http://atheistfoundation.org.au
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Retired. His most recent book, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True was published in 2011.
13-15th April - Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre
Presented by the Atheist Foundation of Australia
http://atheistconvention.org.au
http://atheistfoundation.org.au
David Nicholls has been a member of the Atheist Foundation of Australia for 27 years, and has been its president for the past 8 years. Under his leadership, the AFA has grown to be the largest, most active and well-known atheist organisation in Australia.
http://www.atheistconvention.org.au
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/
Produced by Loud & Clear
http://loudclear.com.au/
This was an absolutely incredible weekend. Please do not miss the 2014 GAC.
Thanks to all the MCs and speakers
David Nicholls
Kylie Sturgess
Lawrence Leung
Mikey Robbins
Ben Elton
Stella Young
Jim Jeffreys
Peter Singer
Leslie Cannold
Dan Barker
Fiona Patten
Dick Gross
Colleen Hartland
Marion Maddox
Derek Guille
Daniel Dennett
A.C. Grayling
Lawrence M. Krauss
Geoffrey Robertson
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Richard Dawkins
Eugenie Scott
Tanya Smith
Annie Laurie Gaylor
Sam Harris
Emma McKenna
Craig Foster
Jason Ball
PZ Myers
Simon Taylor
Mr Deity (Brian Dalton)
Shelley Segal
Tom Ballard
Catherine Deveny
Special thanks to the following YouTubers,
AronRa
Askegg
Mr Deity
HealthyAddict
And everyone at the AFA (Atheist Foundation of Australia)
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/
http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/
You will be missed Hitch
Thanks to the Atheist Foundation of Australia for this tribute.
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/
One of my fave clips of Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens died today. You are already sadly missed.
Thank you!
DJ
This video was put together by the criminally undersubscribed pangeaprogressredux. Please show your support by subscribing to the YouTube channel,
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Censorship is not a valid form of argument
Two companies put their hands up.
Loud and Clear - Pitcher: Ben Beath
Play Communication - Pitcher: Simon Heroff
What do you think. Could a marketing concept such as these have an impact on the rates of religious belief or would the techniques used by the various religions to market themselves be unaffected.
Congratulations to both agencies for their excellent pitches and to The Gruen Transfer for facilitating the question.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/default.htm
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton_Myths.htm
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton
Lord Monckton's scientific qualifications
........crickets chirping
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL195879BC3C5EEB08
Pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhNVSZmLF4
Pt2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1I7kEJFS0
Pt3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWSIn2Ckko
Pt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhlALOMtFU
Pt5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJM-LuK2PYQ
Pt6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCqK_Df8ss
trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify
to the U.S. Senate and Congress on several occasions.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton_Myths.htm
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton
Lord Monckton's scientific qualifications
........crickets chirping
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently
managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the
Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from
Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The
Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has
received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid
mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL195879BC3C5EEB08
Pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhNVSZmLF4
Pt2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1I7kEJFS0
Pt3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWSIn2Ckko
Pt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhlALOMtFU
Pt5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJM-LuK2PYQ
Pt6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCqK_Df8ss
trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify
to the U.S. Senate and Congress on several occasions.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton_Myths.htm
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton
Lord Monckton's scientific qualifications
........crickets chirping
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently
managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the
Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from
Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The
Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has
received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid
mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL195879BC3C5EEB08
Pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhNVSZmLF4
Pt2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1I7kEJFS0
Pt3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWSIn2Ckko
Pt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhlALOMtFU
Pt5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJM-LuK2PYQ
Pt6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCqK_Df8ss
trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify
to the U.S. Senate and Congress on several occasions.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton_Myths.htm
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton
Lord Monckton's scientific qualifications
........crickets chirping
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently
managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the
Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from
Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The
Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has
received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid
mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL195879BC3C5EEB08
Pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhNVSZmLF4
Pt2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1I7kEJFS0
Pt3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWSIn2Ckko
Pt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhlALOMtFU
Pt5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJM-LuK2PYQ
Pt6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCqK_Df8ss
trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify
to the U.S. Senate and Congress on several occasions.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton_Myths.htm
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton
Lord Monckton's scientific qualifications
........crickets chirping
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently
managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the
Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from
Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The
Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has
received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid
mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL195879BC3C5EEB08
Pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhNVSZmLF4
Pt2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1I7kEJFS0
Pt3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWSIn2Ckko
Pt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhlALOMtFU
Pt5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJM-LuK2PYQ
Pt6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCqK_Df8ss
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton_Myths.htm
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton
Lord Monckton's scientific qualifications
........crickets chirping
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL195879BC3C5EEB08
Pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhNVSZmLF4
Pt2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1I7kEJFS0
Pt3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWSIn2Ckko
Pt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhlALOMtFU
Pt5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJM-LuK2PYQ
Pt6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCqK_Df8ss
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCyctTvuCo
SOURCES:
0:18 "Apocalypse? No!" -- Monckton film, 2007
0:59 Myth of the cooling planets in potholer54's video "Climate Change -- Has the Earth been cooling?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvMmPtEt8dc
1:16 "Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the last 11,000 years" -- S.K. Solanki et al, Nature Sep 2004
3:20 Cited by John Cook, http://www.skepticalscience.com/Do-500-scientists-refute-anthropogenic-global-warming.html
3:38 "What the sunspot record tells us about space climate" -- D. Hathaway and R. Wilson Solar Physics 2004
4:32 "Is climate sensitive to solar variability?" Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West Opinion piece at http://www.fel.duke.edu/~scafetta/pdf/opinion0308.pdf
4:41 "Can solar variability explain global warming since 1970?"
-- S. K. Solanki and N. A. Krivova, Journal of Geophysical Research, May 2003
Solar Activity and the Mean Global Temperature
A.D. Erlykin et al, Physics Geo 2009
"Solar trends and global warming" -- R. Benestad and G. Schmidt, Journal of Geophysical Research July 2009
"How natural and anthropogenic influences alter global and regional surface temperatures: 1889 to 2006" J. Lean and D. Rind, Geophysical Research Letters, Sep 2008
"Recent changes in solar outputs and the global mean surface temperature. III. Analysis of contributions to global mean air surface temperature rise" -- M. Lockwood, June 2008
5:24 Slide 96 "Could it be Solar?" http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
5:49 "Meet the Climate Sceptics" BBC TV Feb 2011
7:10- 9:46 taken from posts in the forum of my Monckton Bunkum series of videos, and the videos themselves.
11:04 http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
11:06 http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610
Of recent note is this from the UK Parliament
www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton
Thanks to greenman3610 who uploaded this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rizvaJyA-GM
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3giRaGNTMA
SOURCES:
18" -- Monckton speech in Brisbane, January 2010
1'00" -- Kevin Trenberth,
e-mail to Michael Mann
12 Oct 2009
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=1048&filename=1255352257.txt
2'01" -- Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
2'07" -- Monckton slide with notes
http://www.fcpp.org/pdf/MoncktonwNotesOct809.pdf
2'28" - Justice Burton's summing-up,
Case No: CO/3615/2007
Stuart Dimmock vs. Secretary of State for Education and Skills
Date: 10/10/2007
www.elaw.org/system/files/uk.dimmock.10Oct07.doc
3'18" -- Monckton
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing
3'22" - http://conservativemeanderings.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/lord-christopher-monckton-not-allowed-by-democrats-to-debate-al-gore-on-global-warming
3'23" - http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10062
4'01" - Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
4'20" -- "Flooded out" by Fred Pearce
New Scientist
5 June 1999
4'49" - "Glacier Scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified."
By David Rose
Mail on Sunday, 24 January 2010
5'29" -- Rose response to Climate Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2010/01/25/205394/un-scientist-refutes-daily-mail-claim-himalayan-glacier-2035-ipcc-mistake-not-politically-motivated
5'38" -- "Apocalypse? No!" -- film by Christopher Monckton, 2007
6'18" -- Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
6'25" -- Monckton slide with notes
http://www.fcpp.org/pdf/MoncktonwNotesOct809.pdf
6'40" -- "Fabricated quote used to discredit climate scientist"
The Independent, February 10, 2010
6'46" -- "Stern's Climate report just scaremongering"
By Piers Ackerman,
The Telegraph (Sydney) November 2006
7'08" -- "Malicious bullets fired by the global warmists' guns"
By Piers Ackerman
The Telegraph (Sydney) February 18 2010
7'13" - Sir John Houghton,
"Moral Outlook: Earthquake, wind and fire"
Sunday Telegraph, September 10, 1995
7'39" -- "Malicious bullets fired by the global warmists' guns"
By Piers Ackerman The Telegraph (Sydney) February 18 2010
8'04" - Monckton slide with notes, fccp.org
8'35" - "What the weatherman never said"
By Christopher Booker
Daily Telegraph, 20 Feb 2010
8'55" -- Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
10'05" -- Comments on Ackerman article
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/malicious_bullets_fired_by_the_global_warmists_guns/
11'20" - "Apocalypse? No!" -- film by Christopher Monckton, 2007
11'24" -- Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
11'37" -- St Paul
11'49" -- Speech in Melbourne
11'54" - Video_Audio_ FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy - 04.02.2011, 09_38
12'29" -- Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
I honestly believe most Australians are "cultural Christians". That is, they like the popular ideals of "be nice to people", "don't steal", and "don't kill". While these *may* be Christian values, they do NOT constitute the necessary tenets and dogmas of the faith. Luckily for us the Christians themselves laid these out for us just over 300 years after Jesus reported walked the Earth in the Nicene Creed.
The Creed has been followed by (almost?) all denominations of Christianity since and hold be very familiar to many. It says there is one god who made everything, Jesus was born of a virgin rose from the dead after 3 days where he sits at the right hand of the father waiting to judge us all, there is only one church, and mandates belief in the resurrection of the dead and everlasting judgement and everlasting life. It's a lot to swallow.
If you do not believe these things, then be honest and write "no religion" (or the religion you currently hold true).
My deepest thanks go to Nonstampcollector's sister-in-law for the initial script, and Nonstampcollector's help in putting this together, and promoting the campaign.
Linkage:
Campaign: http://censusnoreligion.org
AFA: http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/
This video can be downloaded here for mirroring if required:
files.me.com/andrewskegg/ijmzpg.mov
Tributes:
NonStamp's mirror: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXsKdbuZldQ
The font is "Gill Sans" as a tribute to Dave "The Happy" Singer and Jason Brown from http://www.invinoveritaspodcast.com
Contact askegg at:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/askegg
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/askegg
Podcast & Blog: http://www.godless.biz/
Evolution is a chronological change in allelic frequency within reproducing populations.
If we are to change the definition of science to allow the teaching of intelligent design creationism alongside the teaching of evolution, we should also teach,
Flat earthism and geocentrism alongside heleocentrism
Alchemy alongside chemistry
Astrology alongside astronomy
Witchcraft alongside physics
Intelligent falling alongside gravity
Some of these ladies clearly have a much better understanding than others. For the record, the more intelligent chicks are definitely hotter!
PZ Myers can usually be found lurking over at Pharyngula
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula
(is that a Klingon in the background or just AronRa?)
Note: No lolcats were harmed in the making of this video
Special shout out to zombieofgod for bringing this clip to my attention.
http://www.youtube.com/user/zombieofgod
Full original clip can be found here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5Pm7qLH50
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpF48b6Lsbo
SOURCES:
10" "Apocalypse? No!" -- film by Christopher Monckton, 2007
1'03" Speech sponsored by Minnesota Free Market Institute St. Paul, October 2009
1'38" "CO2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate" -- D. Royer et al, GSA Today, March 2004
1'54" "Geocarb III: A revised model of atmospheric CO2 over Phanerozoic time" -- R. Berner and Z. Kothavala, American Journal of Science, Feb 2001
2'01" Ibid.
2'18" "CO2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate" -- D. Royer et al, GSA Today, March 2004
2'27" Ibid.
2'40" "CO2-forced climate thresholds during the Phanerozoic" -- D. Royer, Geochimica 2006
5'11" "Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth's Temperature" -- A. Lacis et al, Science, 2010
5'22" Monckton-Lambert debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5N8EtNCzA
9'45" "CO2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate" -- D. Royer et al, GSA Today, March 2004
11'24" "Is the Siachen glacier melting?" -- R. Ganjoo and M. Koul, Current Science, August 2009
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTY3FnsFZ7Q
SOURCES:
2" Interview on Australian TV program 'Sunrise' 2009
1'02" McNeil publishing history: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~bmcneil/publications.html
4'19" Royer
4'29" "The equilibrium sensitivity of the Earth's temperature to radiation changes"
R. Knutti and G. Heger
Nature Geoscience 2008
5'59" Rebuttals to Lindzen
"Relationships between tropical sea surface temperature and top-of-atmosphere radiation"
K. Trenberth, J. Fasullo, C. O'Dell T. Wong
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2010
"Constraining climate sensitivity with linear fits to outgoing radiation"
Daniel M. Murphy, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 2010
"Revisiting the determination of climate sensitivity from relationships between surface temperature and radiative fluxes"
E. Chung, B. Soden, B. Sohn
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2010
"The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific—A Regional Model Study"
A. Lauer et al
Journal of Climate, 2010
6'15" Monckton-Lambert debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5N8EtNCzA
6'34" "Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered," Forum on Physics and Society, July 2008
6'53" Calculation rebuuttals at:
http://duoquartuncia.blogspot.com/2008/07/aps-and-global-warming-what-were-they.html
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/07/once-more-unto-the-bray
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/07/moncktons_triple_counting.php
http://www.altenergyaction.org/Monckton.html#sec7
7'40" "Taking Greenhouse Warming Seriously"
R. Lindzen, Energy and Environment, Dec 2007
8'14" "Chuck it again, Schmidt"
Christopher Monckton, July 2008
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/monckton/chuck_it_again_schmidt.pdf
9'16" Speech sponsored by Minnesota Free Market Institute St. Paul, October 2009
10'04" Monckton notes, FCPP website
http://www.fcpp.org/pdf/MoncktonwNotesOct809.pdf
11'58" Speech in Melbourne, February 2009
12'28" Interview on Australian TV program 'Sunrise' 2009
13'06" Monckton-Lambert debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5N8EtNCzA
13'53" Monckton testimony to US House Energy Independence & Global Warming Committee
6 May 2010
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW-aHvjOgM
SOURCES:
16" Interview with Michael Coren
23" Interview on Australian TV program 'Sunrise' 2009
36" "Climate Chaos? Don't believe it."
Sunday Telegraph Nov 5, 2006
48" Monckton educational background:
Who's Who 2010
57" "Margaret Thatcher -- The Downing Street Years"
by Margaret Thatcher
1' ibid. p.640
1'05" ibid p.640
1'14" Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
1'20" "Margaret Thatcher -- The Downing Street Years" p.640
1'52" "Apocalypse? No!" -- film by Christopher Monckton, 2007
2'09" "Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered," Forum on Physics and Society, July 2008
3'07" "Apocalypse? No!" -- film by Christopher Monckton, 2007
3'15" ibid.
4'05" Speech in Melbourne, February 2009
4'12" Speech sponsored by Minnesota Free Market Institute St. Paul, October 2009
4'24" "Waiting for Global Cooling" - R. Fawcett and D. Jones, National Climate Centre,
Australian Bureau of Meteorology, April 2008
4'50" "Statisticians reject global cooling"
-- Associated Press story 10/26/2009 reproduced at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33482750/ns/us_news-environment
5'26" Speech in Melbourne, February 2009
6'16" Graphs taken from my video "Climate Change -- Is the Earth Cooling?"
6'54" St. Paul, October 2009
7'13" Graph taken from my video "Climate Change -- Is the Earth Cooling?"
3'24" Enso-corrected graph from http://fermiparadox.wordpress.com
7'34" "Waiting for Global Cooling"
7'55" Speech in Melbourne, February 2009
8'38" Arctic Sea Ice New and Analysis, National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/010511.html
9'06" SPPI Monthly CO2 report, July 2009 Vol 1, Issue 7 p. 15
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/co2_report_july_09.pdf
9'51 ibid.
10'35" Biospherics, using data from IARC-JAXA (http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu) and NSIDC (www.nsidc.org)
http://joewheatley.net/arctic-sea-ice
10'56" "Decreasing Arctic Sea Ice Mirrors Increasing CO2 on Decadal Time Scale"
Ola M Johannessen, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters 2008 Vol. 1
11'59" "Recent Ice-Sheet Growth in the Interior of Greenland"
Ola M. Johannessen et al, Science November 2005
13'18" "Recent Greenland Ice Mass Loss by Drainage System from Satellite Gravity Observations" -- S. B. Luthcke, et al., Science November 2006
13'23" "Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet Satellite Gravity Measurements Confirm Accelerated Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet" --
J. L. Chen, et al., Science 2006
13'44" Speech at St. Paul, October 2009
What does this mean for me? I don't know. What does this mean for my channel? I'm not sure, but I am interested to find out myself.
This entire piece is played on bass guitar (6 tracks of it recorded tonight with the help of Glenmorangie single malt). It's very rough with no re-takes but I still like it. I hope you do.
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It is currently offering aid in over 60 countries.
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The MSF(UK) youtube channel is here;
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Where you will find the videos used in the making of this video and in particular the Head of MSF(UK), Marc DuBois' "thank you" video (made after last year's event).
http://www.youtube.com/user/msfuk#p/u/56/rr3MdWQ8WyI
This year's event is taking place with the full knowledge and support of MSF(UK). Indeed Marc DuBois will be appearing on this year's show.
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I have set the ambitious target of $75,000 because I have agreed with youtube user c0ct0pusprime to have a tattoo of "c0ct0pus" is we reach that figure.
This years event (a 24 hour blogtv show) will start on 18th September and will be similar to last year. As well as some of the "usual suspects" there will be new co-hosts, (for example Matt Dillahunty has provisionally agreed to appear). There are also new events and features that will make this year even better than last year. I will be posting more videos about this shortly.
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A new poll suggests that a slim majority of Texans reject evolution, according to a story in the Texas Tribune (February 17, 2010), which also noted that "nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time." David Prindle, a professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, who composed the questions, quipped that the poll confirmed the comedian Lewis Black's claim that a significant proportion of the American people think that The Flintstones was a documentary.
Among the questions on the poll was the standard Gallup question "Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings?" with the choices (1) "Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided the process"; (2) "Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, and God had no part in the process"; and (3) "God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago."
In the Texas poll, 38% of respondents chose (1), 12% chose (2), 38% chose (3), and 12% chose a fourth option, "Don't know." Comparing the results with a national Gallup poll conducted in 2008, in which 36% of respondents chose (1), 14% chose (2), 44% chose (3), and 5% offered a different or no opinion, it might seem as though Texans are slightly less inclined to creationism than the nation at large but the explicit presentation of a "Don't know" option in the Texas poll and not in the Gallup poll is probably responsible for the discrepancy. (Also, the Texas poll was only of registered voters.)
By omitting any reference to humans, a different question in the Texas poll in effect tested whether human evolution was especially problematic. Apparently so: only 22% of respondents chose "Life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time"; 15% chose "Life on earth has evolved over time, entirely through 'natural selection,' with no guidance from God"; 53% chose "Life on earth has evolved over time, entirely through 'natural selection,' but with a guiding hand from God"; and 10% chose "Don't know."
Respondents were also asked whether they agree or disagree with "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals": 35% agreed, 51% disagreed, 15% didn't know. In a national survey conducted in 2005, as Jon D. Miller, NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott, and Shinji Okamoto reported in Science, 40% of surveyed Americans agreed, 39% disagreed, and 21% were unsure. Among thirty-two countries discussed in the Science article, the United States was second only to Turkey in its rejection of evolution.
Unsurprisingly, the views of Texans in general are not reflected in the views of Texas's scientific community. As a report of a survey of Texas biologists conducted by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund in conjunction with Raymond Eve summarized, "1. Texas scientists (97.7 percent) overwhelmingly reject 'intelligent design' as valid science. 2. Texas science faculty (95 percent) want only evolution taught in science classrooms. 3. Scientists reject teaching the so-called 'weaknesses' of evolution, with 94 percent saying that those arguments are not valid scientific objections to evolution."
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Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9
Whilst the traditional view on the evolution of feathers was in relation to flight, new discoveries of feathered dinosaurs in China have changed this to focus on thermoregulation and display.
Certain organisations continue to parrot the phrase "no transitional fossils have ever been found". However, the list of species which possess transitional features continues to grow.
Anchiornis huxleyi, Epidexipteryx hui, Protoavis, Protarchaeopteryx, Archeopteryx, Avimimus, Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, Rahonavis, Shuvuuia, Sinornithosaurus, Beipiasaurus, Microraptor, Nomingia, Epidendrosaurus, Cryptovolans, Scansoriopteryx, Yixianosaurus, Dilong, Pedopenna, Jinfengopteryx, Sinocalliopteryx, Sinornis, Ambiortus, Hesperornis, Ichthyornis
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