You are right, Eric. But the theory of evolution is not on the same footing as climate change (to use your examples). There is a scale, with generally accepted theories at one side (which have time, quality and quantity of studies and evidence backing them up) and theories that are largely based on presupposition (opinion) at the other end. Evolution has a lot of science supporting it and little to no science against it. Without a time machine we can not absolutely confirm it, but it is reasonable to presume that we have a fairly good understanding of how species developed over the last millions of years. However, climate change has a LOT of disparity in the science, with a whole lot of "known unknowns" in the research creating a whole lot of presumptions that get mistaken as fact but upon which conclusions get made. Policies based on that "consensus" are very much skewing the tipping point of credible theory quite a bit toward the opinion side of the scale, away from the "accepted theory."
With abandon, Patrick On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 12:09:47 PM UTC-6, Eric Norris wrote: > > Very interesting discussion of this topic over at Wikipedia: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus > > It includes these statements: > > 'The inherent uncertainty in science, where theories are never *proven* but > can only be *disproven* (see falsifiability > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability>), poses a problem for > politicians, policymakers, lawyers, and business professionals.' > > 'Seen in this way, the demand that policy rely only on what is proven to > be "scientific truth" would be a prescription for policy paralysis ...' > > Not sure what the good Deacon is referring to, but it seems that it is > accepted that “absolute truth” is in many cases not possible to determine, > and the consensus of science is relied up (for instance, related to > evolution climate change, etc.). It also seems that scientists are pretty > clear on the difference between “truth” and “consensus." > > --Eric Norris > campyo...@me.com <javascript:> > www.campyonly.com > campyonlyguy.blogspot.com > > On Jun 23, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > claiming scientific truth by consensus > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
