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BrainSurfer2/26/2012 6:33:55 pm PST

re: #72 Charles Johnson

Well, we know you’re a climate change denier, but how do you feel about evolution?

From my perspective, the climate has been changing for the past ten thousand plus years (my interest is in man’s ancient past) and there’s plenty of evidence worldwide of cities long since inundated. Controversial question today is whether man is the only (primary) cause of what has been recently called “global warming”. AGW proponents say we are and CO2 is the culprit. Facts do not conclusively fit the belief. I’m not caught up in the hysteria on either side - trying to understand the facts as best they can be presented by either (or any) side.

As for evolution, I enjoy Stephen Jay Gould’s books on evolution. His article: Evolution as Fact and Theory, written thirty years ago, helped shaped by beliefs. As he says “Evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. …..Moreover, “fact” does not mean “absolute certainty.”

Definitely not in the “earth was formed in 4000 B.C.” category.