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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
Common sense? Common Sense? Don't make me laugh! "Common sense" would have us believe the earth is flat? Common sense would have us believe the sun and moon stars and planets revolve around the Earth. Common sense is all that uneducated ancients had to try and figure out what was happening all around them. Their answered to thunder and lightning, earth quakes and floods, plagues and famine and disease was gods, demons, witches and sorcery. Common sense doesn't seek to find truth, only an easy answer. Common sense doesn't care about what really went on through out the ages of Earth's history, or the cosmos, or the future. Common sense only cares about here and now and not falling off your chair.
What science does is use extraordinary sense, expanded sense. Science doesn't use Common sense to cures for diseases, or see if we can fly faster than the speed of sound (once thought impossible), or even if we could fly (also once thought impossible).
Sorry, friends, but common sense isn't good enough for identifying and finding remedies for the complex problems of this new age.
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Nobody is arguing against science, merely the politicization of science.
My son-in-law is a scientist and AG professor, with a PhD in the correct discipline to have an opinion on climate change. He lost tenure for merely pointing out in a break room conversation that the polar caps on Mars recede and grow at the same rate as Earth's, suggesting that our current warming trend could have something to do with the variable star we live next to -- maybe even more than a .04% CO2 level, which always increases during warming trends, anyway.
Firing a scientist for questioning a prevailing theory is not science -- that's politics.
Common sense applies when you're worried about a hurricane blowing away your house and you think the solution is to starve 4 billion people in order to turn the thermostat down generations from now.
Common sense says use technology to solve the problems we can solve now and use science to solve the problems of the future without killing billions of people in the process.