[narby]

“The Sudden Origins theory, buttressed by modern cell biology, underscores the need to preserve the environment-not only to enhance life today, but to protect life generations from now.”

Only if the goal is to protect the current set of species. If the goal is to encurage species change, then environmental changes are a good thing.

This sentence is merely a bone to the environmental lobby, the authors no doubt hoping to get a few bucks thrown their way. Such raw pandering to the political left is why many conservatives don't trust science.

[fat city]

"Only if the goal is to protect the current set of species. If the goal is to encurage species change, then environmental changes are a good thing."

And the great hypocrisy of promoting environmental stasis in the name of maximizing the gene pool and species diversity.

[AmishDude]

This sentence is merely a bone to the environmental lobby, the authors no doubt hoping to get a few bucks thrown their way. Such raw pandering to the political left is why many conservatives don't trust science.

And Korean stem cell research, and the misinterpretation of the hockey stick phenomenon, and the fact that the whole system is set up to encourage "cutting edge" fraud...

[Just mythoughts]

"This sentence is merely a bone to the environmental lobby, the authors no doubt hoping to get a few bucks thrown their way. Such raw pandering to the political left is why many conservatives don't trust science."


You got it, using so called knowledge as the eternal handout.

I have read that this past year was the hottest year ever recorded, no I do not have a citation, appears the results show this to be true. Minds and spines are turned to mush.