Received: by 10.224.213.1 with SMTP id gu1mr10642218qab.7.1349607228144; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:53:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.28.83 with SMTP id z19mr2209970vdg.20.1349607228069; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Path: e10ni211270746qan.0!nntp.google.com!l8no29411368qao.0!postnews.google.com!q4g2000vbg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.atheism,alt.politics.democrats,talk.politics.guns,alt.religion.christian,comp.os.os2.advocacy Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 03:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q4g2000vbg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=78.147.240.41; posting-account=4GfIfgoAAADaiZw7okWRhagASwbfxs6r NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.147.240.41 References: <4PWdnfpqrYhD3-3NnZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@posted.sonicnet> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.79 Safari/537.4,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_No=2C_you=92re_not_entitled_to_your_opinion?= From: Devils Advocaat Injection-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:53:48 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 7 Oct, 11:35, Les wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 07:56:05 +0000 (UTC), Kelsey Bjarnason > > wrote: > >On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:40:29 +0000, Fred^2 wrote: > > >>http://theconversation.edu.au/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-997= 8 > > >> When it comes to science, rightards don't get to have an opinion. > > >I always liked "You're entitled to your own opinion; you are not entitle= d > >to your own facts." > > An opinion is only as good as the evidence that supports it So an opinion without support will sink without trace, unless the person holding it continues to blow hot air. :P > > Les Hellawell > Greeting from: > YORKSHIRE - The White Rose County > > "In our more diverse and secular society, the place of religion has > come to be a matter of lively discussion. It is rightly acknowledged > that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue and that the wellbeing > and prosperity of the nation depend on the contribution of individuals > and groups of all faiths and of none. " > > - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II > - from a speech to the Synond of the Church of England in =A02010