GOP Gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner "explained" the warming planet this way:
“I haven’t been in a science class in a long time, but the earth moves closer to the sun every year–you know the rotation of the earth,” Wagner said. “We’re moving closer to the sun.”Now it's been a few years since I've been in a science class as well, but I'm pretty sure this is as close to a true statement as we are to GN-z11 (a galaxy found in the constellation Ursa Major).
At last count, it's about 32 billion light years away.
No, we're not moving closer to the sun. Sadly, this is what passes for science in some corners of the once great GOP.
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Of course, my science class was wrong about alot.
We would run out of Fossil fuels by 2000.
Tree of Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_%28biology%29
Evolution Sludge -> Bacteria -> Fish -> Amphibians -> Reptiles -> Mammals -> Man
http://nautil.us/issue/9/Time/evolution-youre-drunk
"Before the advent of rapid, accurate, and inexpensive DNA sequencing technology in the early 2000s, biologists guessed that genes would provide more evidence for increasing complexity in evolution. Simple, early organisms would have fewer genes than complex ones, they predicted, just as a blueprint of Dorothy’s cottage in Kansas would be less complicated than one for the Emerald City. Instead, their assumptions of increasing complexity began to fall apart. First to go was an easy definition of how complexity manifested itself. After all, amoebas had huge genomes. Now, DNA analyses are rearranging evolutionary trees, suggesting that the arrow scientists envisioned between simplicity and complexity actually spins like a weather vane caught in a tornado."
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