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Originally Posted by wizwor
It's funny that the smart people who think everyone evolved from monkeys try to fight climate evolution and cannot accept that keeping the less fit alive and encouraging them to reproduce might have an adverse impact on the gene pool. Kind of like asking a vegan why they are pro choice after letting them explain why they do not eat animals.
People do a lot of thinking today, but they rarely need data or research to validate their opinions. If they feel it, then it is.
When I learned the scientific method a generation and a half ago, we were taught that a hypothesis was not considered law until tested over time. We were told that great minds once thought the sun revolved around the earth and that the earth was flat. That was a long time ago -- before Time magazine warned of a coming ice age.
Are great thinkers always right or do they simply think, pontificate, and publish?
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Congratulations Wizwor, I have rarely seen a post that short that also managed to contain so many metric tons of derp. From climate change denial, to a deeply flawed misstatement of natural selection
(even Darwin described the benefit of helping the "less fit", and his theory has been refined to an incredible extent since then) and to a head-scratcher of a statement about vegans and abortion.
I really shouldn't, but I am going to pick a specific nit in your post - that Time cover you posted is fake. Time never predicted a coming ice age. Here's the actual,
undoctored cover:
The idea in the 70s that the Earth was cooling rather than warming? Ya, that was an invention of the media and did not reflect scientific opinion. A survey of peer-reviewed scientific papers published between 1965 and 1979 showed that the large majority of research at the time predicted that the earth would warm as carbon-dioxide levels rose.