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Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

I think they are very much the same. The global warming video and my religious argument are based on "uncertainty". There's a difference between believing in a God and believing there's a chance a God exists. Even atheist Richard Dawkings (author of the God Delusion) says that there is a chance that there is a God. A very, very small chance but still a chance. You don't need faith to believe there's a chance God exists and are, to some extent, "uncertain" on whether God exists. I base my religious argument on this "uncertainty" on whether God exists just like the global warming video bases its argument on this uncertainty on whether global warming is happening.

Pascal didn't prescribe agnosticism. He said we should believe in God and obey his laws, if there is so little as a small chance he existed, we would have to worry about going to Hell otherwise.

Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

Organized religion and global warming are very, very similar. Both religion and global warming have millions of followers. Both are billion dollar industries. Both groups of zealots outright ignore and are deaf to evidence that contradicts their beliefs.

It's not that Christians don't listen to evidence that contradicts their beliefs. It's just that they have no evidence to support their beliefs in the first place. Besides, what do you even mean that scientists are ignoring evidence? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

Both have shaky evidence that supports their beliefs: religion gets its evidence from a few desert scribblings and Global Warming gets its evidence from this misleading correlation between CO2 and temperature (higher temperatures lead to more CO2 not the other way around).

Well inverting the relationship between the presence of CO2 and the earth's surface temperature hardly supports your case. I thought this was down to the burning of fossil fuels and the human/animal population taken in conjunction with the state of the rate of consumption of carbon dioxide by the world's plantlife.