Comments on: Humans barely dodged extinction…

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:13:53 +0000

Gordon, anthropomorphic climate change does not preclude natural environmental variation. Climate is not static. No one has ever claimed otherwise. “Global anthropomorphic climate change” aka “global warming” means that there is evidence that natural environmental variations are being negatively impacted by human activity.

Had we gone extinct, I suspect Neanderthal might well have taken our place (provided it wasn’t failure to adapt to the ice age that did them in, but competition with Cro-Magnons). If not, some other ape might have evolved to fill the ecological niche. No need to jump all the way back to the amoeba. Besides, the process to get from amoeba to more advanced life forms is pretty well understood. What isn’t yet fully understood is how you get from chemical compounds to amoebas.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:13:40 +0000

Let’s play a game, dear readers. Which logical fallacies are present in #1? Anyone?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:05:36 +0000

@1: LOL. srsly, WTF?

…can’t wait for Brian to come back into this thread.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:56:32 +0000

I didn’t know there were cars 70,000 years ago. Maybe it was all those coal burning power plants? What else could have caused the global warming back then?

Even if humans would have become extinct, I’m sure some other totally random cosmic act would have recreated some amoeba which would have evolved into a human a couple of billions of years later only to build automobiles and start the extinction all over again.