[glasseye]

This is a religion, facts do not matter.

[stormhill]

Exactly.
When "the science is settled," debate and proof become irrelevant. The most absurd religious tenet becomes self-evident in the eye of the believer.

A Hindu co-worker once asked me why, if you get milk from her, would you want to eat the cow. I found it difficult to answer because nothing I said could match the idiocy of the question.