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To: BroJoeK

Word Salad = Cognitive Dissonance

Global Warming = Evolution 2.0


198 posted on 06/12/2012 2:03:30 AM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: papertyger
papertyger: "Global Warming = Evolution 2.0"

Of course, I'm certain you agree with me that "global warming" is not a scientific hypothesis, nor a scientific theory.
Global warming is an easily demonstrated fact which you can test yourself most any day by first measuring the outside temperature at 6:00 AM, and then again at noon, to see if any "global warming" has occurred.
Do not be surprised if your measurements tell you it did. ;-)

Likewise evolution in its most basic form is neither hypothesis nor theory, it's a fact of life -- descent with modifications and natural selection can be easily observed and confirmed.

Nor is longer-term "global warming" in dispute, since geological evidence clearly shows the globe was in deep ice age as recently as 12,000 years ago, and endured a "little ice age" from 500 to 150 years ago.
And, current temperature measurements do show a slight increase in recent years.

Likewise, the theory of long-term evolution is confirmed by mountains of evidence, from fossils to the geological record, to radiometric datings to biological studies and DNA analysis.
The evidence is overwhelming, but some people insist it does not "prove" evolution, though they often refuse to say just what it might "prove".

Where "global warming" and indeed where science in general gets into trouble is when it mixes with politics and get's on somebody's agenda for ever-expanding government power over virtually everything.
Now "global warming" is hugely exaggerated and then used to justify new taxes, new regulations and less individual freedom.
That's where we have to cry "baloney".
It's where we have to insist on more objective data from less politicized scientists.

By contrast, evolution theory has not suffered the same fate as global warming.
For one thing, the theory itself is over 150 years old, and did not originate from the need for scientists to justify more government research grants.

For another, evolution theory is not being used today (so far as I can tell) to justify the growth of government power.
Evolution is still just a scientific theory which explains better than any other scientific ideas how life descended from common ancestors over many millions of years.
And evolution itself does not deny the Hand of God operating to create "descent with modifications" or "natural selection" of the best features.

Ironically, even allegedly man-made global warming, should it eventually prove true, may well be a good thing, since studies suggest we are now past-due on the next major ice-age, and the longer global warming can delay that, the better off will most life on earth be, especially ours. ;-)

202 posted on 06/12/2012 3:42:09 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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