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Ron Pauls rant against evolution
« on: December 05, 2009, 11:00:09 pm »
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Yea..
in the second question, he spews out a violent diatribe against 'evolutionists' and then denies climate change.
He is exposed as quite the oddball when he isn't recycling the same old lines but rather has to think new thoughts ad lib.
Onset of senile dementia IMO.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKAaps6mFYk
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Re: Ron Pauls rant against evolution
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2009, 11:17:32 pm »
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He doesn't deny "climate change" per se. It's a fact.

But what can policy do about it?

He understands that the policy debate is two-sided. As periwinkle linked to: http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2009/11/crudgate-why-this-cant-be-swept-under.html

You only have to read a relatively liberal economics blog (Freakonomics) and the authors' book: SuperFreakonomics to get a very good counter-arguing viewpoint on man-caused climate change (perhaps more credible to a wider audience because it's not written by extremists). They believe that targeting CO2 is silly for various reasons.

(and then he talks about evolution, so you have the order wrong -- I don't see anything wrong with what he is saying here, he's just against a system where people are forced into a particular curriculum, and that the market should take control of it. It's not a fundamentalist motivation, it's a free-market motivation.)
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Re: Ron Pauls rant against evolution
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2009, 11:34:49 pm »
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Quote from: Collin Li on December 05, 2009, 11:17:32 pm
He doesn't deny "climate change" per se. It's a fact.

But what can policy do about it?

He understands that the policy debate is two-sided. As periwinkle linked to: http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2009/11/crudgate-why-this-cant-be-swept-under.html

You only have to read a relatively liberal economics blog (Freakonomics) and the authors' book: SuperFreakonomics to get a very good counter-arguing viewpoint on man-caused climate change (perhaps more credible to a wider audience because it's not written by extremists). They believe that targeting CO2 is silly for various reasons.

(and then he talks about evolution, so you have the order wrong -- I don't see anything wrong with what he is saying here, he's just against a system where people are forced into a particular curriculum, and that the market should take control of it. It's not a fundamentalist motivation, it's a free-market motivation.)

+1

there are other valid arguments against the whole CO2 trading emissions-climate change thing thats going on....

and ive had the argument about the evolution before

so theres no point in wasting more space
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Re: Ron Pauls rant against evolution
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2009, 11:47:44 pm »
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Quote from: Voltaire on December 05, 2009, 11:00:09 pm
Yea..
in the second question, he spews out a violent diatribe against 'evolutionists' and then denies climate change.
He is exposed as quite the oddball when he isn't recycling the same old lines but rather has to think new thoughts ad lib.
Onset of senile dementia IMO.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKAaps6mFYk

There is already a thread discussing evolution. We don't need to pull that rabbit out of the bag again.

As for climate change, how can you deny it?
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Re: Ron Pauls rant against evolution
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2009, 12:32:03 am »
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here it is Voltaire if your interesting but im guessing ur not

http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,16905.0.html

pg8 i link the same reddit interview

and here's the thread already discussing the other part of ur response

http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,4276.0.html
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Re: Ron Pauls rant against evolution
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2009, 03:00:53 am »
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Re: Ron Pauls rant against evolution
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2009, 08:03:20 am »
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Heh, it's clear from the comments that the authors censor their comments.
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Re: Ron Pauls rant against evolution
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2009, 08:45:41 am »
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Guys, climate change isnt our biggest problem.
We should be worrying about heat pollution

http://humanknowledge.net/SocialScience/Futurology/Timeline.html
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