Magellan wrote:Booney wrote:Magellan wrote:Booney wrote:“If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would be the same result.” - Ricky Gervais
Let me guess...the topic was climate change?
Climate change or religion, one of the two.
If you're in the US, they tend to be part of the same conversation...unfortunately.
Related phenomena...
There is no doubt climate change exists - it always has.
The part that becomes like a religion is whether or not it is all human caused, independent of humans, or a mix of both.
I tend to favour the third option and am all for cleaning up our contribution, but think it is naive to think doing that will stop it happening entirely.
The big religious myth regularly trotted out is the assertion that meteorological records prove it is new - wrong - they began being recorded after the last mini Ice Age that ended during the late 19th century and are therefore bound to show an upward trend.