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Speculations
The local Mensa chapter graciously sends me the email version of their newsletter and I scan through it every month. Along with local and regional news one of the things that fills the local Mensa newsletter is stock market speculation. Another thing that seems to fill those pages is talk of either evolution or global warming.
The evolution theories talk about various evolving species over millions of years. While there could be other things to impact that if something happens once in a million years it would seem plausible to believe that with millions of animals in the earth today that we would see something happening every year somewhere. Animals still have the need to evolve in order to survive. Could it be that they have used the large number of years to craft a theory that can't be disproven or proven?
Along with that is the theory of global warming. Now I'm not saying it doesn't exist but all of the warnings and the numbers I've seen don't consider all the variables in tracking temperature fluctuations. For example many of the studies monitors temperatures in major cities. The thing is the city's temps rise based on urban growth and activity and don't reflect reliable averages. Weather cycles that occur over decades are also generally not considered. In this case they have chosen to forecast something based limited data over a very short period of time.
Although there are many aspects to each argument and elaborate explanations from a statistical point of view neither of these theories has enough statistical information to be proven any time soon. Given the ability of the genii/gifted to learn so much so quickly and the mass and speed of information today could it be that many of them have run out of things to learn? Are they now learning things that aren't learnable? Or are we now entering a new age of philosophasters?