pete from seven stars (hopefully all less than 6,000 light years away...) dismisses core drilling and ice data in its entirety as there have been occasions when it has not been all that accurate...

Ok.

I placed a rubber duck on a bench at the side of my garden pond earlier and prayed to God that when I come back from having a crap, it would have turned into a duck billed platypus.

It didn't.

So prayers don't work.

Ditto God.

Which is good news, because at a stroke, we can rely on cores demonstrating more than 6,000 years! Isn't that great? All of a sudden, science isn't reliant on the fantasy comfort blanket of others!

Oh joy! I'd pray with gratitude but there's no bugger there to hear it..

You know what is sad though? This comfort blanket concept is so hard wired that my flippant comments, written in order to provoke, are seen as bad taste even by rational people. That's how far we have to go in order to stop people from wanting to control others.

If I had a hammer... I'd hammer it in the wri...