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Mass extinctions are actual. That's the bad news, sort of. In this best of all possible worlds, mass extinctions provide no disincentive for believing the biblical Noah story. That's the good news, sort of. Christians, Jews, and Moslems. The vast majority of humans wear the mental straight jacket imposed on them by the Noah story in the book of Genesis. Nevermind that it is the most easily disprovable piece of science fiction. That isn't important. What is important? Simplification. On an evolutionary time scale the exctinction of about two-thirds of all bird, mammal, butterfly and plant species is nearly complete.
What doth it profit a scientist to disprove an absurd fable and loose his tenure? Hungry? How about a delicious hook, line, and sinker? The vast majority of humans swallow the Noah story hook, line, and sinker without any significant signs of indigestion. "Simplification" of earth's biodiversity makes the biblical Noah story more palatable by orders of magnitude than was the case just two short centuries ago. There has been a huge negative impact during those two centuries in reducing both biodiversity and SANI values. One primate species has hopes that its population will top ten billion, a distinction which no other species of mammal has yet achieved. As of the human year 2000, human babies are born at a rate exceeding 350,000 members per day. All the remaining living members of all the other great ape species put together are rapidly declining from a present total of less than 350,000 individuals.
Animals are organisms which move. As a practical matter, animals can be said to fall into two broad categories. A small category and a much larger category. The smaller category contains the clean animals, those which are fit for sacrificial offering to god. The larger category contains all the rest of the animals which are not clean and which are unfit for ritualistic sacrifice to the god of Genesis. Animals pay neither taxes nor tithe.
Are people from foreign countries dangerous? Consider this. China may not have America's imperfect democracy but, does China have a population problem? We asked a faculty member of a prestigious University in Beijing what she thought the world's greatest problem is. She said without hesitation that the world's greatest problem is human overpopulation. Had she been brainwashed or what? When asked what is the largest factor in human overpopulation she replied, again without hesitation, that religion is the greatest contributor. We hadn't expected that. Most western BoBos like to squawk about economic inequality or inequalities in the empowerment of women. To illustrate, she made several points, some of which related to ecology: |
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"The world's footdragging brings many scientists to despair. It
exasperates Sherwood Rowland, who sounded the first alarm back in the 1970s.
'After all,' Rowland has said, 'what's the use of having developed a science well
enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around
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Exclusionary Principle
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Renata de Freitas wrote;
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