Greta Thunberg has done her science homework

Re:Greta Thunberg has done her science homework by dragonwriter on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:22PM (#20964857)

That they lived when the climate was significantly different and were replaced when it became more like current climate is evidence otherwise (it's not, in and of itself, conclusive evidence, but it is evidence.)

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Re:Greta Thunberg has done her science homework by leereeves on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:46PM (#20965111)

Only if you make the significant (and I think unwarranted) assumption that the advantage the genus homo had over other apes was climate adaptation and not greater intelligence, standing upright, etc.

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Re:Greta Thunberg has done her science homework by dragonwriter on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:48PM (#20965123)

> Only if you make the significant (and I think unwarranted) assumption that homo sapiens' advantage over other apes was climate adaptation and not greater intelligence, standing upright, etc.

No, it's evidence both for the general conclusion and that specific point, it doesn't require that point as an assumption.

Evidence is any fact whose existence makes a conclusion more likely than it would be in the absence of that fact.

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Re:Greta Thunberg has done her science homework by leereeves on Friday September 13, 2019 @03:01PM (#20965247)

Given X could potentially cause Y, the fact that Y happened is not evidence of X.

In other words, the mere fact that something happened isn't evidence for a proposed (even plausible) cause. Proving the cause requires further evidence.

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Re:Greta Thunberg has done her science homework by NeedMoreTea on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:25PM (#20964891)

They also weren't trying to hold together an advanced technological society. Survival on the margins of existence may be possible long after society as we know it is in ruins.

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