On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 16:26, Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:29:55PM -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
It's inappropriate to claim "There were ice ages" without providing the supporting evidence, but the claim itself is fine.
Actually, there is a lot of evidence from scientists, atheist and otherwise, that earths cool periods never were ice ages, in the sense of huge ice sheets covering more than a quarter of the earths surface area.
Not credibly. Glaciations leave wonderfully clear geologic records. But let's not get into this here.
Thank you for serving my point that there are people who will argue against just about any claim; that is why it's better to err on the side of not adding qualifiers to every statement.