The late theoretical physicist Albert Einstein once said, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” And, as humans, even the attribution of that quote is in question, because everything is debatable whether justifiably true, factually rational, or contains enduring common sense.
The first person I heard say, “I believe in science”, was Elizabeth Warren, United States Senator serving the State of Massachusetts. She concluded the statement with, “And anyone who doesn’t has no business making decisions about our environment.” Warren utilized her Native American ancestry to advance her educational and professional pursuits. Eventually, after consenting to a DNA test, it was discovered that she had absolutely no Cherokee lineage as she had always claimed. This made the epithetic Donald Trump tag her with the nickname, “Pocahontas”.
I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t believe in science. It is one of the core academic subjects typically broken down into three categories: natural sciences, social sciences, and formal sciences. However, to Ms. Warren, the meaning, when it comes to the science of climate change, is “You reject science,” which literally interprets as “You rebuff what I’m telling you.”
But this rejection is akin to a belief or disbelief in God. Take this imagined conversation:
Joe: How can you believe in God?
John: Faith.
Joe: That’s what all you religious people say.
John: But, you have just as much faith as I do.
Joe: I don’t have any faith in God.
John: But you, as I, cannot empirically prove there is or isn’t a God. Thus, your faith is as strong as mine, just in the opposite direction.
In the same manner, the late Dr. Karl Popper said, “A theory in the empirical can never be proven.” He maintained that one failure of a theory is its demise, but that any supposed theory must remain unproven even into perpetuity.
The late American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman might have said it best when he contended, “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
Climate change has never been empirically proven, but I daresay every justification for its ‘belief’ has been turned aside, yet it has been pushed, propelled, and pressured on the public like no other political deception in history. There are reasons for its continuance, but not a single one is for reality.
