re: #967 scogind

Science is right, for a while. At least until it proves itself wrong. So when a group of scientists, especially the majority, says something is a certain way, take it with a grain of salt, or two.

Examples: Salamanders can be spontaneously produced by throwing a moist log onto a fire; The sun revolves around the earth; The earth is flat; The earth is warming ….

You cite examples of speculative notions from millennia ago, before modern scientific principles had even been formulated, and illegitimately attempt to equate them with evolution, a massively empirically verified theory, and AGW, a new field that is in its investigative infancy. Btw, it was scientists who disproved those ancient notions, and it is scientists who are now pointing to solar cycles as the possible cause for regular terrestrial average ambient temperature fluctuations.

You cannot reduce empirical science to the status of dogmatic religion any more than you can elevate dogmatic religion to the status of empirical science, because the bright lines of the possibility of verification and falsification and the presence vs. the absence of empirical evidence cannot be rhetorically erased.