How am I supposed to know?

[Immortal]

dsgrue3 said:

Immortal said:
@dsgrue3, of course you do. I have yet to meet a religious person who doesn't. That's not the point, though. Is the biology really simple enough for everyone to understand, though? And, if it is, is it the same for the science behind climate change? Homosexuality? For taxes, while I'm unclear on the specifics, surely, you've argued this with someone else on this forum by now? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I believe there was a Politics thread about someone wanting to raise the taxes (firstly) on the rich very recently/

Biology is a required course for every high school student, so yes, the science behind it is easily understood at a top level. If you're asking whether anyone can understand all the intricacies involved in genetics, then not without years of additional education on the subject matter.  Most processes can be described in easy to understand terms. If they aren't, then either that source is beyond the scope of your knowledge or it is a bad source.

Science behind climate change is about as basic as it gets. It compares temperature data from weather stations around the globe resulting in an average surface temperature year over year. Personally, I find it an extremely absurd and obtuse notion to compare 100 years of surface temperature variances on a planet 4,600,000,000 years old. That'd be like comparing one second of one day to an entire century.

I am sure someone proposed taxing the rich, but the only result would be more revenue for the government. The government doesn't create jobs, so what is the point of this additional revenue? It certainly isn't stimulating the economy. We tried that, and it failed miserably.

While high school biology is enough to understand the processes, I don't think it's enough to understand the evidence, which is the part that's a problem. And if common people can't understand genetics and genetics is an important factor in politics, then my problem persists.

Also, surely, you're just joking about climate change. Even mere high school science explains a lot more about it, such as greenhouse gasses and other stuff. It's not that simple and to properly understand the science concerning it is probably even harder. Besides, by saying that you're a climate change skeptic, you're basically doubting the scientific consensus, aren't you?

And, I'm not here to actually argue with you about taxes. Your statement was that it's completely accepted that taxes are a bad idea right now, which is obviously untrue since some significant number of people seem to think so (even if they're wrong, as you say).