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226 - Dr Dreadful
I said nobody remembers the Churchill or Speilvogel books because they don't contain enough history that the school system would even consider them history books.
You really are unbelievable. I told you that Spielvogel was an assigned textbook in one of my college history classes.
The Bible never states that Raamses was not the Pharoah's name either. Your burden of proof, because you insist that it was not.
No, the burden of proof is yours. If you had asserted that the name of the person who led the Israelites out of Egypt was Moses, and I had said that it was not, then the burden would have been on me, because Exodus says that it was Moses and I would have needed to come up with evidence that it was in fact someone else.
Exodus does not say what the name of the pharaoh was. You're just assuming.
And what were the dates of this pharaoh's reign, by the way? You never did answer that with the help of your trusty history book...
'Supposition' is something you always set yourself up for Dread. Jefferson wrote one letter to the Danbury Baptists. Thus theorizing that it may be good to set up a 'wall'. What exactly did he mean by 'wall'? Didn't it sound like he opposed a national religion, but was all for religion guiding all American people? Then Madison wrote one letter to someone, and it was supposed to be the law of the land?? His opinion that the devotion of the people has been increased by the separation of Church and state? How do you know he wasn't talking directly about what they had just come from---a national religion controlling laws in a country??
Jefferson and Madison may have taken it as read that religious devotion was beneficial to the people. They just didn't want it having anything to do with government.
And considering they both had a hand in writing it, I think they might have known a bit about the intent of the law.
What's your interpretation, then? What do you think the role of religion in public life should be, according to your interpretation of the First Amendment?
Kaangerlussuak IS on the West coast. But it's on the southern half of Greenland. Check the maps more carefully.
Incredible. Absolutely incredible. I've never seen anyone go to such extremes of denial to avoid having to concede that they were wrong about a simple point (about there being bits of Greenland that are green).
Since the rules have apparently now changed from "there's nothing green in Greenland" to "there's nothing green in northern Greenland", here's Thule Air Force Base in north-western Greenland, 700 miles above the Arctic Circle and one of the most northerly human settlements in the world. Blow me if there isn't a lot of green there - and very little ice (unless they moved those icebergs in the distance out of the way so they could get a better photo).
if the airplane is from Greenland, it flies to other places, right?
Yes. But that is an Airbus A330, which is not designed to take off and land on ice. It needs a paved runway.
There were thousands of other contemporary sources, including Roman documents saying that Christ did walk the earth at that time, and that He was crucified.
Thousands? I know of a few, but most of them, like the gospels themselves, were written long after Christ's death. And the provenance of several of them is suspect. Which ones did you have in mind?
In post #223, a portion of my post was edited out. You wouldn't have had anything to do with that, would you? You're one of two comment editors, right?
Yes, I am, but I never edit a conversation I'm involved in. I suggest you review the comments policy to determine whether there was anything you wrote in #223 which might have warranted an edit.
I never include anything that would be considered unpublishable. But they never tell me what is wrong in the first place.
Kevin, as an editor I get CCed on the e-mails sent to writers, so I know that Mr Sobel did advise you what needed to be done in order to render your article publishable. And remember that different websites have different editorial policies and standards, so what might be acceptable at NolanChart isn't necessarily going to be so at Blogcritics.
Did you ever access one of my links on NolanChart--ever?
I just told you that I did. But your links don't prove what you think they do. Your recent global warming articles, for example, make much of the effect of solar activity on Earth's climate, which is well-known. They do precisely nothing to explain what is causing the current warming.
Do you seriously think that climate scientists ignore the sun as a factor in climate? Yes, of course you do: you really are that dense.
Hey Dread, how's your mood now?
Amused.
227 - Kevin
Dread,
Your whole diatribe has been quite amusing! I think you are more unbelievable. We first started talking about Churchill's book. Read my statement again, because you evidently glossed right over it: "Hey, get your head in the game. I never said "I personally remembered...". I said nobody remembers the Churchill or Speilvogel books because they don't contain enough history that the school system would even consider them history books."
It was the typical thing to do, to name the Pharoah after a great city or event back then. You knew that, didn't you? You also just 'assumed' that I was 'assuming'. It gets worse from here, doesn't it Dread? And why would a history book of Jesus Christ give the dates of some obscure pharoah's reign? Tag--it's really your burden of proof.
Now you know by one line of written words what Jefferson and Madison thought? It's amazing if they both had a hand in writing the law, why there was nothing ever written in the law concerning separation of Church and state. I already told you how religion and state was connected in a prior post. You remember that, don't you?
Yes, you are incredible! A coast on the southern part of Greenland, and you refuse to call it anything but the west coast. Who's in denial? The main point is (which you seemed to forget several times) is that: the average temperature in Kanngerlussuak year-around was (0o) in the daytime and (-10o) at night. Yea, probably a lot of ice around, most of the year. Core samples reveal a 9o warmer temperature in Greenland back when Eric the Red was there (in the Medieval Warm Period). Greenland is now like a frozen tundra.
Wow, is this a major point of denial, or what?
You even say the rules have changed, but whatever might be green in Greenland is only green for a few days at best. It changed because of the Medieval Warm Period--which had nothing to do with CO2, and everything to do with natural changes. How locked into a thinking 'mode' does one have to be to totally ignore facts?
Sorry, but the plane you had pictured was no Airbus 330. What was your point again?
Every witness to a resurrected Christ WAS a contemporary source. Few wrote the gospels except for the ones you are familiar with. Suspect prevenence?? You'll have to let me know which ones were suspect and why to have that statement fly.
There is nothing in #223 that should have been edited out. But you're one of the Comment Editors. Surely you know why it happened, and what some of those alleged malicious words were. I wonder why you won't tell me what they were?
Like I said, you're privy to those written conversations. I'm not. So surely you can tell me what I wrote that was so bad it all had to be deleted.
No, you told me you accessed the column. Not that you actually accessed the link. You, of all people, know words mean things.Just what did Mr. Sobel advise me to do that I would not?? You tell me--what's OK at NolanChart that's not OK at BlogCritics? Do you really know?
I told you what has caused past warming and past cooling. You would not listen. If you think we are in a warming trend right now, your sources are more limited than I thought.
When did I ever say that "climate scientists ignore the sun as a factor in climate"?
Think before you say.
Just how long do you think you will stay amused?