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While experts remain at odds over when life begins, most agree it's sometime after work.
Mike Baldwin
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I have just started reading Climate Confusion: How global warming hysteria leads to bad science, pandering politicians and misguided policies that hurt the poor, by Roy W. Spencer where I found the quote above. He included the actual cartoon but you have to pad to do that without getting it without a watermark (which some lawyer probably searches the net for every day) on it, which I am not going to do.
I found chapter 2, Science Isn't Truth very interesting and am including a couple of quotes from it here.
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You need to first accept that science doesn't provide us with truth. The practice of scientific investigation involves tools to help us explain how the physical world might work. The explanation doesn't have to be true to be useful, just consistent with most of the evidence.
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Not even scientific "laws" have been proven to be true.A physical law is simply a theory which scientists have grown tired of trying to disprove.
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It is relatively easy to establish whether a relationship exists or not, but the difficulty comes when we try to explain why it exists. For instance, a researcher might find that out of a study of 10,000 adult alcoholics, 97 percent of them drank milk as a child. The researcher might then hypothesize that the drinking of milk as a child leads to alcoholism later in life. But as you might suspect, there are alternate explanations as well. It could have been the cookies that were eaten with the milk.
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