Tell Him, "Ease off with the Climate Change, you're killing the planet!!!!"

If I were God, I'd say, "Fuck off, you did it to yourselves."

Tough one for the Pope to figure out.

Galileo wasn’t punished for his scientific views. He was punished for publishing them.

The pope had already gladly accepted Copernicus’ findings (which is what Galileo got in trouble over.)

I see no evidence of that. I only see evidence that he supports science.

Naturally, if the scientific view requires atheism, then, to that extent he is not a scientist. However, I would argue that atheism is a matter of faith, an atheist cannot prove there is no god, any more than the pope can prove that there is.

That's his job.

It seems clear that he does not feel that either trumps the other:

we are in trouble. Maybe Pius XII can explain it to us,

(Perhaps no one is “bullshitting us.”)

I was intrigued reading Novacene by james Lovelock to find that having read a book on “Anthropic Cosmology” he had come to believe that the universe was tailor made for our existence. He was not “religious” per se, in that he did not follow the rituals, or accept the stories generally associated with religions.

Part of the reason I was intrigued was because I believe I had read the same book at about the same time he had, and found it similarly persuasive.

I have known scientists who were atheists and scientists who were deeply religious as well as many who were somewhere in between. A Hindu scientist once said to me, out-of-the-blue, “People ask me, ‘Why do you believe in a god?’ I ask them, ‘Do you believe in electrons? Why? Have you ever seen an electron?’”