(It has ever since it adopted a denialist position on overpopulation a couple decades ago, and has only become worse in recent years.)

I get the Covid booster every year. Flu, about half the time. Covid scares me much more than influenza (I haven’t had influenza since the 1990s; it’s easier to avoid).

I haven’t, but I will. :-)

I am sure that there were oral traditions in play, but, in most cases, I see no reliable way of differentiating what may have been an oral tradition from what may have been simply invented by the author for his own purposes. The gospels are primarily works of literature, not history.

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This strikes me as the most charitable reading of the gospels that the evidence reasonably allows. The gospels are written so as to *appear* as history, but that appearance does not hold up. I think they are primarily works of literary invention. Historical fiction.

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As you say Lyle, >95% of western larch forests have been lost, and nobody around now has much of an idea what they were like before logging. But we know the species is very long lived, at least up to 1,000 yrs old and growing over 9' diameter. Just a few exemplars of their real potential remain.

Finally, of course, ‘moderate’ is a word that lacks content. “Moderate” with respect to what?

This whole abomination of a poll can be seen here:

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news.gallup.com/poll/655190/...