Dogma

[docui]

Why is it when you want to challenge the dogmatic beliefs of others, they get all freaky on you? I mean really

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[elehu]

Man, I hear ya. :( Even suggesting there might be further views gets you labeled as a conservative jerk around here.

[gencolson]

Mmm. Well, good news is that I won't smack you down. :) But I shan't agree with you, either. Well, not so whole heartedly, anyhow. While I'm not an expert in geology, a great number of my colleagues in other labs, ones who work with paleo stuff, are. And relying on their expertise to evaluate the data (A fair bet, since they're highly educated in such manners), they state that the case for climate change is increasingly strong in all various and sundry geological records (which is not just limited to rocks, as one would think; woe be it to he who assumes otherwise

[gencolson]

Addendum: I used to be of a different mind on this, and the issue of the evolution 'debate.' I was fairly laissez faire about either, until I started watching how the 'debate' took place. In both, you have a miniscule, vocal minority of people, many of which aren't scientists in that field at all, insisting there's still debate, or recycling old points that had been thoroughly refuted ages past. Hell, I still see that solar cycle chart flung around like it's anything other than years old toilet paper, and /GOD/ don't get me started on creationist claims (They haven't changed in over 100 years, some of them, and they were shoddy arguments even then

[gencolson]

... er, saying that to the leaders of the minority who are espousing these sorts of views. I'm anti-badgering Wills. :)

*nods*

[darkangelpf]

I have to admit, when I first saw the length, I was thinking I was going to be reading a NYTimes article