may owe...Huh??? The press release contains the kind of qualifiers you'd expect a careful scientist to make, and you sneer at it as being evidence of a leap of faith???
may be due in part...
possibly even promote...
may have grown...
was likely covered...Talk about a leap of faith!
If instead they said something like "Earth's temperate climate definitively owes its existence to the rise of marine animals with calcium carbonate shells...", would you not be complaining about the scientists' arrogance for daring to make such a definitive statement about the past? Would you not then solemnly intone the common creationist mantra: "This scientist shows more faith in godless materialism than the most ardent believer in God..."?
What, you say you would never do that? OK, then what should the scientist have said in order for you to not blurt out, "leap of faith"?
Correct. I prefer not to engage in useless exercizes of futility.
"...then what should the scientist have said in order for you to not blurt out, "leap of faith"?"
I was just making an observation, that's all. I don't speak for speculators...in science, finance, or war.
All your base are belong to us!
The article is still garbage. It shows absolutely no evidence for evolution and the tremendous climactic change claimed in it is very doubtful. If it was correct there would be tremendous amounts of evidence for it and such a claim would have been made decades ago. There is no evidence for these claims that is why they use 'computer models'. You can model whatever you like on a computer and make it come out any way you wish. Sometimes I think that more lies are told with spreadsheets than with tongues.