Friday, May 02, 2008

Heretic! Denier!

Dr. Roy W. Spencer, a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, opines:
The view that nature was in some sort of preferred, yet fragile, state of balance before humans came along is arbitrary and philosophical — even religious. It is entirely possible that there are other, more preferable states of balance in nature which are more robust and less fragile than whatever the state of nature was before we came along.

You would think that science is the last place you would find such religious opinions, yet they dominate the worldview of scientists. Natural scientists tend to worship nature, and they then teach others to worship nature, too . . . all under the guise of “science.”

And to the extent that this view is religious, then making environmental laws based upon that view could be considered a violation of the establishment of religion clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Why cumbereth he Gaia's Holy Ground?

2 comments:

Jane Bellwether said...

Reminds me of George Carlin's bit speculating that maybe the Earth created humans so they could create plastic, and now that Mother Nature has plastic, she's going to shrug us off like a bad habit.

Steve Burri said...

That Carlin bit was very good. Man has never had a low self-esteem problem.