[After being told scientists are in almost unanimous consensus that evolution is correct]Well ma there were plenty of people at one time who thought the Earth was flat.
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It's worth remembering that using a consensus among scientists to assert the truth of something is an argumentum ad populum (i.e. "X thousand believers can't be wrong!"). That something is a consensus position is only useful in contradicting an argument to the effect that something is not widely believed (significantly doubted, only tenuous, etc.)
Hence the general consensus of scientists on the anthropogenic origin of global warming is an answer to criticisms that 'many/most' scientists are doubtful. It does not in itself make AGW any more likely to be true.
Note that a 'scientific consensus' can refer to both a consensus view of scientists and a consensus amongst the science (i.e. results). It is this latter meaning that carries some weight of proof with it as it implies the principle in question has been well confirmed by observation or experiment.
There is, of course, a scientific consensus (in the second sense) in favour of evolution too (and AGW for that matter). This does not make them 'true', it makes them well confirmed theories of science. Which is all scientists claim them to be.
Because x was wrong, the completely unrelated y must also be wrong.
Sure. Keep telling your big fat non sequiturs for Jebus.
@Tom S. Fox
"Yes, and you know who proved them wrong?
SCIENTISTS!!!"
And Soviet scientists no less when, in 1957, they sent up Spunik 1, the first artificial satellite orbiting the Earth. And at a stroke, proving that there isn't a solid dome (that was the heavens) called the 'Firmament' (even before then by past explorers circumnavigating the globe, thus proving the EArth wasn't flat, and by definition, not supported on 'pillars'), thus Genesis was destroyed cosmologically, therefore the Bible is wrong, ergo a 'God' doesn't exist. QED.
"Well ma there were plenty of people at one time who thought the Earth was flat."
Even BCE-era ancient Greek mathematicians were able to determine that the Earth was spherical.
Just as said marine explorers (AD) proved similarly.
I love the smell of destroyed arguments in the morning. Smells like... victory.
Confused?
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