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What has morality got to do with anything?
When a Lion eats his rivals offspring there is no moral question.
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What has morality got to do with anything?That's some very bizarre phasing because Neo-Darwinism isn't a philosophy and in turn has no bearing on our moral compass.
Fittest means intelligent and fit enough to be self supporting and succesfully reproducing in the given environment.
Very few people I know are capable of either without the continued support of an international commercial/technological system to lean on.
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What has morality got to do with anything?
When a Lion eats his rivals offspring there is no moral question.
No, I think it is more likely that the Earth is becoming flat, and so the horizon is moving away from each of us, allowing a larger area of visibility, so that more of the constant number of flat Earther's can now be seen.I wonder if its more a case of the Internet allowing them to have more visibility.
Fittest means intelligent and fit enough to be self supporting and succesfully reproducing in the given environment.
Very few people I know are capable of either without the continued support of an international commercial/technological system to lean on.
For example most of the young people in my industry (trained as navigators) are completely unable to find thier location using the low technology means that I was trained to use, and I, in turn, am unable to navigate in the very intellectual manner of guys like James Cook and he was unable to comprehend the entirely self sufficient manner of the Polynesian navigators.
There is a progression of declining fitness observed over a few hundred years here driven by a desire for technology that substitutes.
Reading this Pew Research Center survey on views of scientific issues, the age demographics for both climate change denial and evolution denial are quite apparent.
For climate change, 60% of people aged 18-29 say that it's a result of human activity. Only 31% of people aged 65+ say the same thing. Conversely only 20% of people aged 18-29 say there is no solid evidence for climate change, versus 33% of people 65+.
Similarly with evolution, 73% aged 18-29 say that living things have evolved over time. Only 54% aged 65+ say the same thing.
In both cases there is a general trend from more acceptance of both climate change and evolution in younger demographics versus older demographics.
What does this mean? Well, older people tend to die before younger people. This results in a demographic shift over time; we can expect a reduction in both climate change denial and evolution denial. In the latter case Gallup polls on creationism/evolution have already shown a greater acceptance of evolution and decline in creationist beliefs for the last couple decades.
edited to add: Found a Gallup poll suggesting an increase in concern regarding climate change over time: Global Warming Concern at Three-Decade High in U.S.
This corresponds with the demographics and suggests at least partially a demographics shift.
What is revealing is that even with most, including the best and brightest, believing it they are unable to do anything meaningful to reduce it. So while it seems that science has given itself the solemn duty to reveal problems it is the solemn duty of someone else to fix them.
No one denies climate change, just that whether man is the cause or not.
I guess it depends on what you call getting warmer and in relation to what?There are those on this very forum that are denying that the planet is getting warmer.
See this thread: The global warming information Trump is ignoring
Reading this Pew Research Center survey on views of scientific issues, the age demographics for both climate change denial and evolution denial are quite apparent.
For climate change, 60% of people aged 18-29 say that it's a result of human activity. Only 31% of people aged 65+ say the same thing. Conversely only 20% of people aged 18-29 say there is no solid evidence for climate change, versus 33% of people 65+.
Similarly with evolution, 73% aged 18-29 say that living things have evolved over time. Only 54% aged 65+ say the same thing.
In both cases there is a general trend from more acceptance of both climate change and evolution in younger demographics versus older demographics.
What does this mean? Well, older people tend to die before younger people. This results in a demographic shift over time; we can expect a reduction in both climate change denial and evolution denial. In the latter case Gallup polls on creationism/evolution have already shown a greater acceptance of evolution and decline in creationist beliefs for the last couple decades.
edited to add: Found a Gallup poll suggesting an increase in concern regarding climate change over time: Global Warming Concern at Three-Decade High in U.S.
This corresponds with the demographics and suggests at least partially a demographics shift.
Is that like the polls that affirmed Trump wasn’t going to be president?Reading this Pew Research Center survey on views of scientific issues, the age demographics for both climate change denial and evolution denial are quite apparent.
For climate change, 60% of people aged 18-29 say that it's a result of human activity. Only 31% of people aged 65+ say the same thing. Conversely only 20% of people aged 18-29 say there is no solid evidence for climate change, versus 33% of people 65+.
Similarly with evolution, 73% aged 18-29 say that living things have evolved over time. Only 54% aged 65+ say the same thing.
In both cases there is a general trend from more acceptance of both climate change and evolution in younger demographics versus older demographics.
What does this mean? Well, older people tend to die before younger people. This results in a demographic shift over time; we can expect a reduction in both climate change denial and evolution denial. In the latter case Gallup polls on creationism/evolution have already shown a greater acceptance of evolution and decline in creationist beliefs for the last couple decades.
edited to add: Found a Gallup poll suggesting an increase in concern regarding climate change over time: Global Warming Concern at Three-Decade High in U.S.
This corresponds with the demographics and suggests at least partially a demographics shift.
It’s fixing to decline no matter what we do.We should assume it is man-caused, and take steps to reduce it. If it declines measurably then we know it's man-caused. If not then we know it isn't. Simple.
But how many of those affiliating with religion are becoming biblical creationists? The OP suggests that it is biblical creationism which is in decline (at least in the US) not religion.This is in the U.S. not over the whole world, am I correct? Like religious affiliation is decreasing in the U.S. but going up world-wide: The World Is Getting More Religious
Correct, I was using religion as an example of something that was in decline in the U.S. but not elsewhere (if I remember correctly). I just wasn't sure if the poll the OP posted was talking about the U.S. or the world.But how many of those affiliating with religion
are becoming biblical creationists? The OP suggests that it is biblical creationism which is in decline (at least in the US) not religion.
That is wrong. We are increasing CO2 levels thus global temperatures will increase perhaps to catastrophic levels relatively soon (decades not thousands of years) unless we reduce CO2 emissions.It’s fixing to decline no matter what we do.
Scientific analysis of past climates shows that greenhouse gasses, principally CO2, have controlled most ancient climate changes. The evidence for that is spread throughout the geological record. This makes it clear that this time around humans are the cause, mainly by our CO2 emissions.
Worry about global warming impacts in the next 100 years, not an ice age in over 10,000 years.
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