{#2} Replying to Lord Monckton's 8-16-10 email

Lord Monckton,
Thank you for your reply of 8/16/10.
However, the essay you shared, “What is Science Without Religion,” side stepped my actual questions. First and foremost, (regarding 5:20; 9:45; 10:45), calling up the Bible in the manner you do demands a fidelity to the notion of a Biblical six day creation that occurred 6,000 years ago. Appealing to the one literal notion of the Bible and ignoring the other seems like a cynical showman stunt - dishonest to all.

Therefore, I have condensed my previous email to better focus on those questions.

As for your essay, I’ve read it a couple times now and in the spirit of better digestion I have decided to share it (a condensed 850 word version... 3,070 words is a bit excessive.) with a discussion group I participate in, CFI Forum. I’m curious to see if it gets any response. I invite you to drop in and see what folks are saying, heck join in on the conversation if you want.

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But, back to the 8-15-10 letter I sent you. Here is a more concise version of my questions:

Christopher Monckton,
#1
... taking this personal need fulfillment to some absolute “I know the One Truth!, because of My God” level, mangles the honest pursuit of science where all must keep an inquisitive skeptical mind.
DO YOU AGREE? OR DISAGREE?

#2
Today we appreciate the true God of time and creation is well beyond the understanding of us Earth bound sinners, filled, as we are, with our own self absorbed natures, our self serving greed and follies, and tragedies, leavened with a touch of love now and then. This does not mean the religions are wrong... it simply means there is so much more that no religion has, or can, encompass.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?

#3
God is in your heart - but, beyond your understanding...
DO YOU AGREE? OR DISAGREE?

#4
The science is extracted from the real living Earth... which is, after all, where we come from and what nurtures and sustains us.
DO YOU AGREE? OR DISAGREE?

#5
As for your allusions to the Christian ethic: Why does that allow you to handle your “adversaries” with such venomous scorn, bordering on hatred? How is it you find it so easy to broad-stroke many thousands of serious scientists as frauds - as the whole of your presentation clearly implies?
SO WHY ALL THAT SELF-CERTAIN RAGE TOWARD FOLKS WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU?

#6
Why are you so dismissive of learning about Earth’s Biosphere - as your bitter attacks on Earth observation funding proves? Do you actually believe there is nothing outside of your bubble for you to learn from?
DO YOU AGREE? OR DISAGREE?

#8
Why your eye for an eye until the whole world is blind attitude? Why can’t we all try to start learning about our climate in a serious manner rather than hiding behind politically motivated, corporate driven entertainment? Why can’t you, and your Republican backers, open your minds to real world information?
The scientists are not the bad guys!
Why not shut up and sit down to listen, think and learn for a while?
WELL?

#9
Some new questions in light of the SPPIblog.org posts you shared with me.
You and “a reader” had good fun joking about the frigid weather.
What does this summer say about the Global Cooling you insist is occurring?
Where are we to look for signs of your Global Cooling?
What should we make of all those happening signs that point to Global Warming?

Sincerely,
http://citizenschallenge.blogspot.com