On Jun 22, 10:53*pm, Benj wrote:
On Jun 22, 9:42 pm, "Robert J. Kolker" wrote:

And according to the Gaia Hypothesis, life on Earth itself will evolve
to absorb and subsume any climate conditions that will lead to runaway
greenhouse effects.

The planet is not a living organism. Organism live on the planet.

And the way you know this for such a certainty is? *Oh that's right.
FAITH!

I love faith-based science, don't you?

I especially love those who have such unquestioned authority that they
can simply answer all questions with unshakable assertion that is
obviously so authoritative that none dare question it! Love, ya,
Bob!

Well, faith based science has its merits by avoiding the brain strain
that comes as a reult of serious thinking!
Hence, without the brain strain, empty headed believers in faith based
science tend live longer than those that actually contribute to the
physical sciences, but fortunatly for the human race, don't reproduce
very often.

This is why we see so many 80 year old Bible thumpers, but not very
many historically productive sceintist over the age of roughly 70.

Harry C.

p.s., On a more serious note, during their college years, most
physical science majors burn the midnight oil studying, sometimes
pulling all-nighters simply to stay ahead, and in other cases, to pay
for their education. I've noticed that this takes years off of one's
lifespan. I'm 70, and a vast majority of my physics classmates are
already dead. Still, the business and theology majors are still going
strong! I have to tell you this: Classical and Theoretical Mechanics
courses are the real killers, having seen several physics majors taken
away the those nice men in the white lab coats, while still muttering
bable about Euler's equations and the nunation and precession of a
gyroscope. (I only use Euler as as example, because an equal level of
brain strain can result when one thinks about the physical
implications of any transform, and it is clearly better for your
health to simply accept that these devices work on face value alone.
Not ponder them. and why they work. This is how faith simplies life.)

Harry C.