| Runa216 said:
May not have been a blanket statement, but it was still wrong. this thread isn't about Climate Change/Global Warming, this his about the fact that people seem to insist that their 'opinions' mean more than facts. Did you know that more scientists worldwide named 'Steve" believe in Climate change than there are scientists that don't? It's like 98% of the world's scientists who support it, but the incredibly vocal 2% are making it to sound like it's an undefined issue when in reality it's a very one-sided argument. |
The thread isn't about climate change, neither was kasz' post. His post was simply to give an example where "science" says "We see no evidence for climate change", and then after some less trivial ideas and investigation, we find that there is some kind of fog covering the evidence, in this occurrence Coal dust. (I wasn't aware of that but I learnt it in his post)
It makes one sense that it would be good to be wary of bold scientific claims, because there could always be an alternate explanation, or some kind of phenomenon someone isn't thinking of.
That, Runa, should be your burden. To think "maybe we're missing something, maybe we shouldn't be so certain, is there something we're not seeing?"
That is the burden of the true intellectual. imho.
I believe a wise person once said "The more I discover, the more I realize how little I know". I think that's an important attitude to have, and I encourage you to strive for that. There's no doubt there are alot of very smart people online. It would be important for them to keep an open mind because, in the end, they are no greater than their own blind spots. As such, as iron sharpens iron if we keep an open mind we can refine each others' world views by listening and challenging ideas, not attacking people.
