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Author Topic:   Creationist = Anti-Environmentalist?
Tal
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Message 97 of 111 (441053)
12-16-2007 7:30 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Nuggin
10-04-2007 2:28 PM


Or supporters of Creationism, but oppose to the Endangered Species protection.
Let's start with this from the OP. Species extinction hasn't been demonstrated. In the 1970s, Norman Meyers predicted a million species would be extinct by the year 2000. Paul Ehrlich predicted that fifty percent of all species would be extinct by the year 2000. But those were just opinions. --Discussion in Lomborg p. 252
Opinion in the absence of evidence is prejudice. Do you know how many species are on the planet? No? Neither does anybody else. Estimates range from 3 million to 100 million. Quite a range.
Morjorie L. Reaka-Kudia, et al., Biodiversity II, Understanding and Protecting our Biological Resources, Washington: National Academies Press, 1997. "Biologists have come to recognize just how little we know about the organisms with which we share the planet Earth. In particular, attempts to determine how many species there are in total have been surprisingly fruitless." Myers: "We have no way of knowing the actual extinction rate in the tropical forests, let alone an approximate guess." In Lomborg, p. 254
So its pretty hard to determine how many species become extinct if you don't know how many there are in the first place. How could you tell if you were robbed if you didn't know how much money you had in your pocket to begin with? There is no known rate of species extinction.
After your response we'll start doing Global Warming (which claims species exctinction).
Edited by Tal, : No reason given.

We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds-and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own. --Michael Crichton

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Tal
Member (Idle past 5708 days)
Posts: 1140
From: Fort Bragg, NC
Joined: 12-29-2004


Message 108 of 111 (441870)
12-19-2007 5:39 AM
Reply to: Message 98 by molbiogirl
12-16-2007 9:28 AM


Hello all and thanks for all the warm replies . I sure do miss this place at times. I thought my post would be taken in the context of the OP, that man made global warming is causing extinctions, as that is the claim of the OP and people who believe in global warming. Unless you'd like to claim that man made CO2 being released into the atmosphere is the cause of T. Rex dying off, then I really have no argument with you.
I wish some of you would stop with the venom though. I understand you are upset with me because I don't believe what you do, but that's no reason to go slamming every post I make in every forum with contempt.
RAZ is correct. I can't get on here as often as I'd like. 12 months down, 3 to go.

We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds-and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own. --Michael Crichton

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