re: #4 studentpatriot

Spencer is routinely publishing in top-ranked journals, and has obviously earned his seat at the climate science table. Science is an ongoing discussion, and attacking someone for religious or political beliefs is simply outside the scope of the science discussion. It is poor form.

No, what is “poor form” is presenting the pseudoscientific raving of a creationist as if it were equivalent to real science. It has nothing to do with religion — this is about reality.

You don’t get to just say, “Sure, he’s a creationist, but we should listen to what he says about climate science.”

When someone is enough of a crackpot that they promote creationism, that destroys their credibility as a scientific expert on anything. There’s no better example of a charlatan than a creationist pretending to be a scientist.