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Originally Posted by mtb tripper
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yeah haha its silly. As if those who use science and rationality were born to drive you toward the path of "sin"
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http://lastresistance.com/7026/austr...-climate-data/
Not going to claim this is the most reputable source... But this is fairly controversial in Australia right now. The labour govt had scientists skewing climate data to show a warming trend when in fact there was a cooling trend. Why do you think scientists are perfect? They are human beings that can be manipulated by the prospect of tenure and grant money. You're advocating the idea that religion shouldn't be sacred. Fine. You should also retain a healthy level of skepticism for other aspects of our culture.
Many of you have said that religion was once used as a control mechanism. So if many elites had once used religious institutions to control or manipulate public opinion, what would they use to control a populace that was slowly denying their old traditions. Science, especially since you guys hold a science book to be as sacred as a Muslim with his Quran.
I'd like to reiterate that I believe in both evolution and the scientific method... But I am highly skeptical that, in a world where a weatherman can only tell me to 50% accuracy whether it will rain in a given day, that climate models, unaware presently of all of the feedback mechanisms and variables at work on the earth, can accurately predict the global climate in 100 years. It doesn't make sense to me. I think we should retain a healthy level of skepticism, especially when 90% of "climate change" in the U.S. is nothing more than El Niņo being incorrectly attributed to this chicken little mentality that if we don't stop burning gas we're all going to die.