Somehow, we went from getting all verklempt about the coming ice age in 1977 to worrying about the earth becoming a burning ring of fire a mere 3 decades later. Obviously we over-corrected.
Somehow, we went from getting all verklempt about the coming ice age in 1977 to worrying about the earth becoming a burning ring of fire a mere 3 decades later. Obviously we over-corrected.
The real problem is the tendency to believe lies.
This is something that is within the realm of human will. No amount of truth telling, as long as lies can exist, will force people to actually grasp the truth.
The propensity to believe lies can be so bad that it even warps “science” which is supposed to be the most sacrosanct honest thing in the secular world.
The answer to lies is belief in God. What? some say! How can you get truth out of a sky pixie? Well, that presumption can be blown to smithereens to start; even if God were a pixie he wouldn’t just be a sky pixie, he would be an everywhere pixie. But he seems to do some very un-pixie-like things. Like hold the universe together. And care about what humans care about even though they don’t understand the universe.
Link goes to Time Magazine:
http://science.time.com/2013/06/06/sorry-a-time-magazine-cover-did-not-predict-a-coming-ice-age/
If this hotlink works, the actual cover should be below:
Don't worry, be happy.