This is a growing theme as of late and I can’t help but notice that one side of this argument seems to be becoming progressively more militant in their stance.  I think we all know why this seems to be concerning.  Regardless of what side you’re on, you have to understand how troubling it is to see a resurgence in something is unbelievably and willfully stupid as flat earth theory.  Vaccines I get.  I don’t agree but I understand where the concern is generated from.  GMO’s sure, they’re terrifying at first glance, but when you do the research; actual research into how these things work and pull the curtain down from the hyperbole that is being spread in order to scare you away from them, the fear inevitably withdraws.

Now neither of these two examples is directly to do with religion, but they are a symptom of a mindset that has originated in the battle between religion and the discipline that keeps invalidating it’s understanding of the universe.  Like homosexuality for example.  If homosexuality is natural, that means it is, by default, condoned at least in some small part, by God, but that would mean the text in the Old Testament is flawed.  So you refuse to believe that homosexuality arose as a natural condition and deride the discipline suggests that it is.  The seed is planted.

Once you become comfortable disputing fact, it’s kind of an avalanche from there and all of the sudden climate scientists don’t know what they’re talking about, scientific dating methods are held as invalid, and the entire fields of Geology, Astronomy, Biology, Meteorology, and Physics are just some hoax.  But there’s one problem.

You are disobeying your God as he has commanded you to be humble.  You are commanded by Jesus Christ himself, in Mathew 11:29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart”.

I can promise you, preaching to the world that climate scientists don’t know what they’re talking about, even though you can’t even explain the concept of “half life” is the exact opposite of humility.  You don’t know what an isotope is.  You don’t understand the concept of heat energy density across different states of matter.  You aren’t qualified to question the physical equations that describe the transfer of energy between ultra-violet radiation and green house gas molecules.  You have no idea what the chemical composition of the permafrost is or what stands to be released by their thawing.  And that’s just a small GLIMPSE of the science you have to MASTER in order to fully understand the implications of the science behind climate change.

You dispute evolution, even though you can’t even name the 4 base pairs of nucleotides that make up DNA.  You don’t know what a Helicase molecule does even though it’s one of the COOLEST machines in the entire biological kingdom.  You ignore the cosmos of information that supports it in favor of a story in a 3000 year old book that suggests that God will punish you for wearing that poly-cotton blend t-shirt you’re wearing without even realizing that you’re breaking a commandment from your God.

Not only are you allowing your “faith” to propel you into insanity, and that’s what this is; denying something that is objectively provable for no other reason than that you are too lazy to study the concept in enough detail to form and coherent opinion, is insanity, but you are defying the tenants of your own faith because you haven’t studied it well enough either.  If you had, you would understand the benefit of softening your heart enough to realize that questioning these facts just makes you AND your faith seem completely out of touch with reality, resulting in this ridiculous and completely unnecessary dialogue where we get to fight over whether or not the earth is an oblate ellipsoid.  It is.  If you’ve never heard of an oblate ellipsoid, shut the hell up, and nod your head because you’re not qualified to dispute it.  If you’re really, really passionate about it, grow some fucking discipline and learn your shapes like a big boy, then make sure you learn enough about why we think things are the way they are to formulate a coherent dispute based on DATA, not your ill informed philosophical conjecture.

As it is said too well.  In God we trust, all others, bring data.  If you can’t, you will be automatically written off as either a conflicted interest, or complete idiot.  That’s all there is to it.