Jed Rothwell said: >I do not know how to write a presentation that might convince someone with >this belief system. > >Seriously, I would appreciate advice from any other readers here with >connections or a religious bent. No offense meant.
Step one is to stop thinking of them as being any different than you are in terms of what you want to accomplish vis-a-vis cold fusion. The Christian environmentalist movement, such as it is, goes back many years. Most of their views on the environment are as "liberal" as those of any typical NYC atheist global warming protester. You can talk to the former (or write for them) exactly the same way as you would to the latter. You want a clean environment, so do they. You think CF is a viable technology to pursue to make this happen, try to convince them of that. I'm a Christian Jed. I've read your stuff. I don't think there is much of anything (if anything) you need to change in what you write about CF to these folks. The differences between you and them is largely a matter of motivations. They have religious reasons for wanting to be environmentalists. You have other reasons. But you both rely on the same laws of physics governing the clean technologies. Also, bear in mind that they are not dummies--they are perfectly capable of not giving a damn what your own views are about religion as long as the technology you're pushing helps them toward their goals. Jeff Kooistra
