Religion said that earth was the center of the universe.
No that was scientists of the day.
As far as I know...Aristotle wasn't a priest or a religious figure. Neither was astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy.
And yes, its a wonderful feature that new evidence and new ways of thinking are welcomed! But id like to see evidence that your examples were "settled science"
Go back and look at the scientists pre-Enlightenment and before the Scientific Revolution.
I suspect they were not.
To an uncurious mind like yours...you'll never find that which you don't look for.
Why is it leftist to believe in man made climate change? The response to it may suit some leftists for sure. I dont conflate the two.
Because it's become a religion of sorts for leftists like yourself. Green is the new Red. The fan fiction theories on man made climate change do not stand up to peer review or a serious look at the statistical and environmental facts.
There's no better evidence of this than the infamous Hockey Stick graph.
Is it leftist to believe the earth is 4.5 billion years old and evolution is the result of random mutations?
Nope. It's not. Nice try at a subtle swipe at christians though. But what you just said makes my case. This planet has been here long before man and billions of years before the Industrial Revolution. To believe your fantasy of man made global warming...would require a suspension if disbelief that the planet that survived natural cycles of Ice Ages warming...tectonic plate shifts...floods asteroids that wiped out entire species and play magnetic shifts that have reversed the poles is in danger of being wiped out by man and technology.
We're a virus on the surface of this globe and when God and Mother nature grow tired of the virus they will wipe us out and start over.
It's egotistical and arrogant to believe that man and man alone is this climatological disaster to the planet.
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You're not a Republican anyway so why should it matter to you what the Republican Party looks like in 50 years?