I agree that nobody denies climate exists, but I think that’s irrelevant to the question at hand.
To clarify that a bit… Aaronson asserted a relationship between “climate skeptics” and “the academic climatology community” with respect to some concept X which climate skeptics deny exists. We could get into a whole discussion about what exactly X is (it certainly isn’t climate), but rather than go down that road I simply referred to it as “the thing climate skeptics don’t believe in.”
Eugine_Nier asserted a relationship between “atheists” and “the theology community” with respect to some concept Y which atheists deny exists. We could similarly get into a whole discussion about what exactly Y is, but rather than go down that road I simply referred to it as “the thing atheists don’t believe in.”
If the theology community is in the same relationship to Y as the academic climatology community is to X, then the analogy holds.
I just don’t believe that the theology community is in that relationship to Y.
I just don’t believe that the theology community is in that relationship to Y.
I believe Eugine_Nier is suggesting not that theology community is in the same relationship to Y as the academic climatology community is to X, but the reverse.
The analogy doesn’t cohere. Nobody denies that climate exists; they disagree on what it is doing.
I agree that nobody denies climate exists, but I think that’s irrelevant to the question at hand.
To clarify that a bit… Aaronson asserted a relationship between “climate skeptics” and “the academic climatology community” with respect to some concept X which climate skeptics deny exists. We could get into a whole discussion about what exactly X is (it certainly isn’t climate), but rather than go down that road I simply referred to it as “the thing climate skeptics don’t believe in.”
Eugine_Nier asserted a relationship between “atheists” and “the theology community” with respect to some concept Y which atheists deny exists. We could similarly get into a whole discussion about what exactly Y is, but rather than go down that road I simply referred to it as “the thing atheists don’t believe in.”
If the theology community is in the same relationship to Y as the academic climatology community is to X, then the analogy holds.
I just don’t believe that the theology community is in that relationship to Y.
I believe Eugine_Nier is suggesting not that theology community is in the same relationship to Y as the academic climatology community is to X, but the reverse.
(nods) Yup. It’s the opposite of what he said, but he could easily have been speaking ironically.