Actually, scientists determined that the world was round, and pretty confidently settled on the issue, hundreds of years before one particular religious orthodoxy decided that it must be flat. And even then sailors knew to ignore it.
Tell me this story of which I am ignorant. No sarcasm intended, I'm innocently curious.
GOD DAMNIT READ HIS POST.
You're the third person to claim he's attacking the scientist(s), and you even quoted the freaking sentence!
When[what] climate scientists say is often used
Often used? By the scientist(s)?
to justify restricting in various ways things that most people either rely on or enjoy.
Nope! Turns out he said absolutely nothing about whether or not the scientist(s) is(are) wrong, or right, or ordering you around, or simply providing information. He said that the information provided by the scientist(s) in question is used by *someone* to justify restrictions. You are attacking the OP for saying the exact same thing you yourself are saying.
All clear?
you could travel to Procyon (11.4LY away) and watch Shrub take the oath of office on the White House lawn. For us, it happened 11 years ago. For Procyon, it's about to happen.
11 years ago, it happened. Period. It happened here and it happened in Procyon. The fact that Procyon doesn't see it happen til 11 years later doesn't mean it didn't happen 11 years ago, it simply means that Procyon is 11 light years away and can't know it happened until the point that they see it. You see?
The San Francisco-based appeals court said the teacher was entitled to immunity because it was not clearly established in the law that a teacher’s expression of hostility to certain religious beliefs in a public school classroom would violate the First Amendment’s establishment clause. The establishment clause requires that officials act with neither favor nor disfavor toward religion and the religious.
Explain this. Please.
The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"