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Originally Posted by Stu
The skeptics should give this a watch.
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I watched the video and I must say I am not impressed with his logic and reasoning. At all.
I majored in mathematics and I know there was a mathematician (not sure of the name but could figure it out if you're interested) centuries ago who used an analogous argument that we should believe there is a God and worship him.
His reasoning was more or less as follows: there is a level of uncertainty on whether God exists. If we worship God when God does exist then we are rewarded with eternal paradise. If we worship God when there is no God we are wasting some of our time. If we do not worship God when there is no God then we have more time to do other things. However, if we do not worship God when there is a God we are punished with eternal damnation. His conclusion was we should worship God because it's the better "column" if you will.
So Stu, should we all become religious and go to church every Sunday?
This argument he uses is one of the reasons why I think this global warming myth has in a lot of respects become a religion. And the clerics of global warming keep propogating the myth because that's how they make their money (just like religious clerics).
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