Jeap, if you are going to try to baffle with bullshit, try and use good bullshit and not the after-sixteen-pints-of-the-black-stuff-and-a-turtle-curry liquid slurry. Bristlecones are a fringe of a fringe (PS. Don't try and bullshit a Canadian on the Hockey stick model.)
You missed one in your list of consensus being wrong. Consensus was that man was divinely created by an intelligent designer (The good old Watchmaker postulation). Unfortunately a better, more robust theory (Darwin's theory of Evolution through natural selection) came along, knocked down the watchmaker, gouged out its eyes and skull-fucked it. Perhaps a less poetic image than would be preferred, but it ties in so nicely with Dawkin's 'Blind Watchmaker.'
Science has a fabulous capacity to self-correct, if a better theory (proper usage) comes along. Theory. Not sky hook.
You missed one in your list of consensus being wrong. Consensus was that man was divinely created by an intelligent designer (The good old Watchmaker postulation). Unfortunately a better, more robust theory (Darwin's theory of Evolution through natural selection) came along, knocked down the watchmaker, gouged out its eyes and skull-fucked it. Perhaps a less poetic image than would be preferred, but it ties in so nicely with Dawkin's 'Blind Watchmaker.'
Science has a fabulous capacity to self-correct, if a better theory (proper usage) comes along. Theory. Not sky hook.