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2008-06-09T05:47:06Z

Truthsearcher: Mission

I am here to help destroy [[atheism]]. I want the rivers to run red with their blood.

An Inconvenient Truth

2008-03-03T06:28:06Z

Truthsearcher: Millions of years? The Earth was created by the LORD 6000 years ago, liberal heathens!

[[Image:Capitalistexploitation.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Al Gore has created a way to [[profit]] from [[global catastrophe]].<ref>''New Mexico Daily Lobo'', September 28, 2007, pg. 8.</ref><ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22663 The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade],
by Deborah Corey Barnes, ''Human Events'', 10/03/2007.</ref>]]

'''"An Inconvenient Truth"''' is a [[global warming]] slide show made into a prize-winning film narrated by former U.S. Vice President [[Al Gore]].
It provides a one-sided, highly politicized account of the [[anthropogenic global warming theory]], giving all the [[liberal]] arguments in favor of supporting the sort of "[[greenhouse gas]]" reductions required by the [[Kyoto Protocol]].

According to the Madison, Wisconsin ''Capital Times'', [[Reid Bryson]], founding chairman of the department of meteorology at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] and of the Institute for Environmental Studies, now known as the [[Gaylord Nelson]] Institute for Environmental Studies and also known as the father of scientific climatology considers global warming a bunch of hooey. Reid said, "Don't make me throw up...it's not science..." <ref>[http://robertsteely.townhall.com/Default.aspx?mode=post&g=abc72f45-f361-42a9-b73c-c01a506f1437 Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'], Noel Sheppard, June 18, 2007. Retrieved from Townhall.com June 20, 2007.</ref>

Reid said,
{{Cquote|There is a lot of money to be made in this," he added. "If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can't get grants unless you say, 'Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide. <ref>''Local scientist calls global warming theory hooey'', Samara Kalk Derby, The Capital Times, 6/18/2007. </ref>}}

Author Noel Sheppard cites a new study in ''Science Magazine'' <ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/313/5786/452 Climate Change: Can We Detect Trends in Extreme Tropical Cyclones?], Christopher W. Landsea, Bruce A. Harper, Karl Hoarau, John A. Knaff, ''Science'', 28 July 2006: Vol. 313. no. 5786, pp. 452 - 454.</ref> written by a group of scientists including two members of the [[National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration]] that refutes this central contention in Al Gores "[[schlockumentary]]" that the "apparition called global warming is responsible for an upsurge in hurricane activity and intensity," including the [[Hurricane Katrina]] disaster. <ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/michael_moore_issues_iraq_with.html The Inconvenient Truth: Hurricanes and Global Warming], By Noel Sheppard, ''American Thinker'', August 02, 2006.</ref>

==Scientific inaccuracies in the film==

Copied verbatim from the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' (except for the last example<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301067,00.html</ref>) 
Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.

{|border=1 cellpadding=3
|'''Gore claim'''
|'''Peer-reviewed science'''
|----
|Gore claims that the Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame.
|Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame.
|----
|Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame.
|Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine.
|----
|Gore claims global warming is causing more tornadoes.
|Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes.
|----
|Gore claims global warming is causing more frequent and severe hurricanes.
|However, hurricane expert Chris Landsea published a study on May 1 documenting that hurricane activity is no higher now than in decades past. Hurricane expert William Gray reported just a few days earlier, on April 27, that the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast has declined in the past 40 years. Hurricane scientists reported in the April 18 Geophysical Research Letters that global warming enhances wind shear, which will prevent a significant increase in future hurricane activity.
|----
|Gore claims global warming is causing an expansion of African deserts.
|However, the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular' retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa.
|----
|Gore argues Greenland is in rapid meltdown, and that this threatens to raise sea levels by 20 feet.
|But according to a 2005 study in the Journal of Glaciology, the Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins and growing inland, with a small overall mass gain. In late 2006, researchers at the Danish Meteorological Institute reported that the past two decades were the coldest for Greenland since the 1910s.
|----
|Gore claims the Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming.
|Yet the Jan. 14, 2002, issue of Nature magazine reported Antarctica as a whole has been dramatically cooling for decades. More recently, scientists reported in the September 2006 issue of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, that satellite measurements of the Antarctic ice sheet showed significant growth between 1992 and 2003. And the U.N. Climate Change panel reported in February 2007 that Antarctica is unlikely to lose any ice mass during the remainder of the century.
|----
|Gore claims that polar bears were drowning while searching for icy habitats melted by global warming.
|The British High Court in making a determination if Al Gore's 'documentary' should be shown in secondary schools found that the only drowned polar bears the court was aware of were four that died following a storm.
|----
|}

==35 Errors Discovered==
[[Image:Inconvenient Truth watch.jpg|right|150px]]
Global warming critic Christopher Monckton released a report called ''35 Inconvenient Truths'', which described 35 gross errors and exaggerations found within Gore's film. Some of the errors are directly contradicted by the IPCC.<ref>http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html</ref>

==Gore's contributions to global warming==
:''"There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of [[disinformation]] lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere."''
Sean Hannity reported on Fox News Channel's ''Hannity & Colmes'', February 18, 2007, that when Al Gore was running his campaign: ''"On January 27th, 2000, Gore campaign in Concord and Manchester, New Hampshire, and on that very same day reimbursed the Thomas Lee Company $1,400 for the use of their corporate jet. That evening he left New Hampshire and flew back to Washington aboard Air Force Two, the vice president's official plane is a 757, which means that the flight from New Hampshire to Washington, well, the vice president emitted more than 22,000 pounds of CO2."'' <ref>http://newsbusters.org/node/10951</ref>

== Awards ==
Despite its many scientific inaccuracies, the film has received several awards:

*Academy Awards (The Oscars) 2007
*Chicago Film Critics Association
*Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
*Florida Film Critics 2006
*Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2006
*Las Vegas Film Critics Circle 2006
*National Board of Review
*New York Film Critics Online
*New York Film Critics Society
*Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006
*Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2006
*Online Film Critics 2006
*Phoenix Film Critics Circle 2006
*Satellite Awards (Nominated) 2006
*St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2006
*Toronto Film Critics Circle (Nominated) 2006
*Utah Film Critics Awards 2006
*Washington D.C. Film Critics Association 2006


==References==
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==See also==

*[[Runaway greenhouse effect]]
*[[Anthropogenic global warming theory]]
*[[Environmentalism]]

[[Category:Environmentalism]]
[[Category:Global Warming]]
[[Category:schlockumentary]]

Age of the earth

2007-10-13T04:24:47Z

Truthsearcher: Redirecting to Age of the Earth

#REDIRECT [[Age of the Earth]]

Virus

2007-10-13T04:17:34Z

Truthsearcher: Origins of viruses

[[Image:Virus.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Microscopic view of a virus.]]
A '''virus''' is a tiny non-[[cell]]ular infectious agent that has two characteristics: It has genetic material (either [[DNA]] or [[RNA]]) inside a protective [[protein]] coat, and it cannot reproduce itself.<ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. ''Exploring Creation With Biology''. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1998</ref> To reproduce itself, it needs to infect a cell. The genetic material is inserted into the cell, and the reproductive machinery of that cell is then effectively "hijacked": the cell starts to produce components of new virus particles. These components spontaneously self-assemble and the new virus particles can then infect other cells, where the same process happens.

Examples of viruses include the [[influenza]] virus, the common cold, [[smallpox]] and [[polio]].

Viruses are not affected by [[antibiotics]], the drugs used to kill bacteria.

==Origins==
Like all things on Earth, viruses were created by [[God]].

==References==

<references/>

[[Category:Biology]]
[[Category:Medicine]]

Homosexuality in animals myth

2007-10-13T04:11:13Z

Truthsearcher: Appeal to nature

[[Image:Carl wieland.jpg|thumbnail|120px|left|Dr. [[Carl Wieland]] - Managing Director of [[Creation Ministries International]].]]
In respect to the '''homosexuality in animals myth''', there is currently interest on whether homosexual behavior is or is not [[zoology|zoologically]] "natural." This is largely a sterile debate because behavior is not necessarily moral even if "natural;" because the nature of human beings is not necessarily the same as the nature of other species, and because it is not at all clear when an observed behavior can be counted as "sexual," or as implying a sexual "orientation." Also, [[Creation Ministries International]] wrote on this subject of whether or not there is [[homosexuality]] in the animal kingdom: "There is...documented proof of [[cannibalism]] and rape in the animal kingdom, but that [[appeal to nature|doesn’t make it right]] for humans."<ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/2774</ref>

A 1996 article, published by an organization committed to the treatment of homosexuality, musters the arguments against interpretation of animal behavior as sanctioning homosexuality.<ref>[http://www.narth.com/docs/animalmyth.html The Animal Homosexuality Myth], Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, excerpt from book ''Defending a Higher Law: Why We Must Resist Same Sex "Marriage" and the Homosexual Movement.''</ref> It notes that "homosexual scientist Simon LeVay" stated that the evidence pointed to isolated acts, not to homosexuality:
{{Cquote|Although homosexual behavior is very common in the [[animal]] world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity.}}
[[Image:Apardo.gif|thumb|150px|Dr. [[Antonio Pardo Caballos]]]]
In addition, Dr. Antonio Pardo, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Navarre, [[Spain]], wrote:
{{Cquote|Properly speaking, homosexuality does not exist among animals.... For reasons of survival, the [[reproduction|reproductive]] instinct among animals is always directed towards an individual of the opposite sex. Therefore, an animal can never be homosexual as such. Nevertheless, the interaction of other instincts (particularly dominance) can result in behavior that appears to be homosexual. Such behavior cannot be equated with an animal homosexuality. All it means is that animal sexual behavior encompasses aspects beyond that of reproduction.<ref>http://www.narth.com/docs/animalmyth.html</ref>}}

[[National Geographic]] somewhat favors that homosexual behavior occurs in animals although their article leaves the question open.<ref>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html</ref> However, although it might not have been the result of a deliberate hoax, the [[Archaeoraptor]] was a large embarrassment to [[National Geographic]] and National Geographic's judgment in scientific matters is certainly open to debate given the Archaeoraptor episode.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/4208news2-3-2000.asp</ref><ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4273news4-11-2000.asp</ref> For example, every cattle farmer is familiar with the phenomenon of "bulling," cows mounting other cows; in fact, this is one of the standard signs farmers look for when determining that a cow is coming into estrus. However, it does not follow that the cows involved are showing anything analogous to human lesbian orientation.

Lastly, a notable article was created on the subject of whether or not animal homosexuality exist entitled ''The Animal Homosexuality Myth'' and it was written by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo.<ref>http://www.narth.com/docs/animalmyth.html</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Homosexuality]]
[[Category:Animals]]

Evolutionary game theory

2007-10-13T02:30:58Z

Truthsearcher: Category/see also

In the field of [[evolutionary game theory]], an '''evolutionarily stable strategy''' or '''ESS''' is one which cannot be bettered by others in a population. The concept was proposed by [[population genetics|population geneticists]] [[John Maynard Smith]] and [[George R. Price]]<ref>Maynard Smith, J. and G. R. Price (1973) The logic of animal conflict. ''Nature'' '''246''': 15-18.</ref>. Alternatively, [[Richard Dawkins]] describes it as a strategy which performs well against itself.<ref>Dawkins, R. (1976) ''The Selfish Gene''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286092-5</ref>

==See also==
*[[Behavioral ecology]]
*[[Evolutionary biology]]
*[[Game theory]]
*[[Prisoner's dilemma]]
*[[Theory of evolution]]

==References==
<references />

==Further reading==
*Maynard Smith, J. (1982) ''Evolution and the Theory of Games''. ISBN 0-521-28884-3

[[Category:Evolution]]
[[Category:Mathematics]]

Evolutionary stable strategy

2007-10-09T23:03:32Z

Truthsearcher: Redirecting to Evolutionarily stable strategy

#REDIRECT [[Evolutionarily stable strategy]]

Evolutionary game theory

2007-10-07T01:05:07Z

Truthsearcher: Link

In the fields of [[evolutionary biology]] and [[game theory]], an '''evolutionarily stable strategy''' or '''ESS''' is one which cannot be bettered by others in a population. The concept was proposed by population geneticists [[John Maynard Smith]] and [[George R. Price]]<ref>Maynard Smith, J. and G. R. Price (1973) The logic of animal conflict. ''Nature'' '''246''': 15-18.</ref>. Alternatively, [[Richard Dawkins]] describes it as a strategy which performs well against itself.<ref>Dawkins, R. (1976) ''The Selfish Gene''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286092-5</ref>

==References==
<references />

==Further reading==
*Maynard Smith, J. (1982) ''Evolution and the Theory of Games''. ISBN 0-521-28884-3

Evolutionary game theory

2007-10-07T01:02:17Z

Truthsearcher: ESS article created

In the fields of [[evolutionary biology]] and [[game theory]], an '''evolutionarily stable strategy''' or '''ESS''' is one which cannot be bettered by others in a population. The concept was proposed by population geneticists [[John Maynard Smith]] and [[George R. Price]]<ref>Maynard Smith, J. and G. R. Price (1973) The logic of animal conflict. ''Nature'' '''246''': 15-18.</ref>. Alternatively, Richard Dawkins describes it as a strategy which performs well against itself.<ref>Dawkins, R. (1976) ''The Selfish Gene''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286092-5</ref>

==References==
<references />

==Further reading==
*Maynard Smith, J. (1982) ''Evolution and the Theory of Games''. ISBN 0-521-28884-3