Taking his comments and replacing Global Warming with Evolution sounds like this:
"Do you believe in EVOLUTION? That is a religious question. So is the second part: Are you a skeptic or a believer?" said Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, in a speech to about 100 people at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
"Essentially if whatever you are told is alleged to be supported by 'all scientists,' you don't have to understand [the issue] anymore. You simply go back to treating it as a matter of religious belief," Lindzen said. His speech was titled, "EVOLUTIONARY Alarmism: The Misuse of 'Science'" and was sponsored by the free market George C. Marshall Institute. Lindzen is a professor at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Once a person becomes a believer of EVOLUTION, "you never have to defend this belief except to claim that you are supported by all scientists -- except for a handful of corrupted heretics," Lindzen added.
According to Lindzen, EVOLUTIONISTS have been trying to push the idea that there is scientific consensus on EVOLUTIONARY change.
"With respect to science, the assumption behind the [EVOLUTION] consensus is science is the source of authority and that authority increases with the number of scientists [who agree.] But science is not primarily a source of authority. It is a particularly effective approach of inquiry and analysis. Skepticism is essential to science -- consensus is foreign," Lindzen said.
---The last sentence is what I have thought is the big deal on any science issue: Skepticism! (I always love science articles that say "New find causes scientists to rethink...."
It works very well IMO. Thanks.