Actually their is a very simple reasoning that show the invalidate of any argument that go along the lines of "Earth is so and so many million years old and back then ...."

The Earth is 5 billion years old and for 60 % of the time it was a hot rocks surrounded by a poisonous cloud of surfur and other acid like components. Life didn't exist back then and carbon based lifeforms are ill equipped to survive in those conditions. That is despite the fact that some micro organism have managed to evolve into a beings that can survive harsh climates as volcanous and underwater hot vents. Both of which are downright fatal to 99 % of all other organism on this planet.

The operative section here is "... evolved into ...". This means that they had many generations to slowly adapt themselfs to live in these hot acid conditions. This, my sceptic friends is impossible for complex organisms like human beings to accomplish within a time frame of say less then a million years (=about 3000 generations). Therefor any significantly alteration of the conditions here on earth that proceeds faster then that time frame will have a very good chance of leading to extinction of the human species. EVEN THOUGH THE EARTH ITSELF AND IT FLORA AND FAUNA SURVIVED SIMILAR CONDITIONS JUST FINE IN ITS PAST.

Additionally, even if the human design can sustain itself in these new conditions then our societal structured may well not do so if the change is rapidly enough.

Maybe the environmental reports need to come with a similar disclaimer as the stock exchange advertisements. Results achieve in the past pose no garantee for the future.

Pretty much change is a given here on Earth and yes human beings do evolve continiously to adapt to these changing conditions, but it can only do so at a relatively slow speed. If the changes are much faster then that, ... well I think you see the problem here.

In todays worlds with our rigid societal structure we can't just pack up shop and move en masse to a different spot on the earth where conditions are more favourable. To local populace will not accept their own survival to be japordized by the refugies. The direct result will be wars and a whole lot of violance while the world at large readjusts to the new conditions. Probably decimating the human population at the same time.

And for what reason exactly ? Because people like reborn christian Bubba refuse to drive any sissy japanese car that gets a better mileage then the standard US V6 3 liter overweight pick-up truck.

Basically some dumb hack feels he is entitled to "risk it all" because he ... well, indeed, because he is what exactly ?

Ohh, how stupid of me to forget. Because he will not witness the hardships as the rapture will wisk him away just in time.

And I'm with Jake on this one. I have yet to find some peer-reviewed scientist to claim that the environmental problems are mere conjecture. There is an abundance of "think-tank" related pseudo scientist however and we all know how dependable they have turned out to be lately.

Wouter