re: Why do most conservatives embrace a lack of evidence re: climate change but not religion?

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Why require scientific data to support your beliefs re: climate change but require no such data to support your religious beliefs?

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Again, the technical answer is because one deals with the physical world while the other does not.

Practically, the reason is simply that such double standards are necessary for religion to sustain itself. If all people applied a strictly evidence-based approach to religious belief across the board, religion could not survive. All currently proposed religions violate what we know about the natural world in various ways and none have empirical, reproducible and objective measures by which God reaches people.

So while religion IS inherently different than climate, that isn't the reason most people apply different standards to the topics. In reality its because they were taught religion before they possessed finely tuned powers of critical thinking and religion became a vital part of their existence before they ever had a chance to reject it. Most people aren't presented with politics until they are much more capable of discerning reality from fiction.