I will start by saying that I decided that I was an agnostic in 7th grade.
"I highly suspect that the people who believe in the narrative of climate change that is being presented by big environmental activist organizations also believe in the idea that evolution is sufficient to explain life."
That sentence is interesting in that it uses the words 'suspect' and 'believe'. Believing, suspecting and knowing are three different things. I looked up 'believe' decades ago, it was something to the effect of "to accept something as true without absolute proof." What is the difference between a proof and an "absolute proof"? Proofs exist in mathematics not reality.
In reality there is only evidence to be used for judging probabilities. Believing is accepting something as true, or false, with insufficient evidence. Therefore belief is stupid by definition.
I started seriously thinking about climate change in 1989 after watching After the Warming by James Burke. I have read 5 or 6 books on the subject. The Discovery of Global Warming gets to the point best. I strongly suspect that AGW is going on. What constitutes an Apocalypse or an Emergency? How do you judge that? It is unknown how bad it will get how fast. If people choose to regard climate models as garbage then how are they going to judge?
I am not aware of the Theory of Evolution ever trying to explain how life resulted from dead chemicals. If there is a God then He/She/It could let the system run itself on automatic with evolution 99.9% of the time and only stick His magical finger in when it was necessary. How could we ever tell?
As an agnostic I get the impression that most people are not comfortable with "I Don't Know". They have to BELIEVE SomeThing!
I will start by saying that I decided that I was an agnostic in 7th grade.
"I highly suspect that the people who believe in the narrative of climate change that is being presented by big environmental activist organizations also believe in the idea that evolution is sufficient to explain life."
That sentence is interesting in that it uses the words 'suspect' and 'believe'. Believing, suspecting and knowing are three different things. I looked up 'believe' decades ago, it was something to the effect of "to accept something as true without absolute proof." What is the difference between a proof and an "absolute proof"? Proofs exist in mathematics not reality.
In reality there is only evidence to be used for judging probabilities. Believing is accepting something as true, or false, with insufficient evidence. Therefore belief is stupid by definition.
I started seriously thinking about climate change in 1989 after watching After the Warming by James Burke. I have read 5 or 6 books on the subject. The Discovery of Global Warming gets to the point best. I strongly suspect that AGW is going on. What constitutes an Apocalypse or an Emergency? How do you judge that? It is unknown how bad it will get how fast. If people choose to regard climate models as garbage then how are they going to judge?
I am not aware of the Theory of Evolution ever trying to explain how life resulted from dead chemicals. If there is a God then He/She/It could let the system run itself on automatic with evolution 99.9% of the time and only stick His magical finger in when it was necessary. How could we ever tell?
As an agnostic I get the impression that most people are not comfortable with "I Don't Know". They have to BELIEVE SomeThing!