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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (19820)2/18/2008 11:36:13 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
"Evolution deniers deny a lot more than life descending from a common ancestor."

This is the only thing they are really interested in denying.

No it isn't. They also deny much more recent evolution. (If you argued that there where ten thousand separate initial common ancestors a billion years ago they would still disagree with you.

And as I said before, pick one opinion about the solidity of evolution. Its either solid, in which case skepticism about a number of global warming claims doesn't resemble skepticism about evolution. Or evolutionary theory isn't solid, in which case skepticism about it is reasonable. Either way its unreasonable to flip flop between the two points, arguing that evolution is shaky (so that it resembles the predictions of those arguing about a serious global warming problem), but also solid (so that those who are skeptical about it are deserving or ridicule, or at least are unreasonable.

Have it one way, or have it the other, but you can't have it both ways.
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