Noah's flood was modernize by science using the man-made global warming claim, near the year 2000 after Gore lost the election. The new and improved world flood would be caused by the polar ice caps melting by 2010, and the earth becoming flooded. We were all asked to appease God; mother nature, by eliminating fossils fuels. This plagarization of the biblical account of the flood, seemed to resonate with the left, since it appeared to have science backing and also touched a deeper need. You can take people out of religion but not religion out of people.
This science magic trick was made possible, because, Science is not self sufficient when it comes to the resources it needs to do science. Scientists are beholden to Government, Business, Industry and private donations. These money and resource givers have something to say in terms of which science theories will get the money. It is up to the scientists to politic to get resources. Science politics is often about exaggerated claims to move rich people emotionally; hobnob.
In the beginning, global warming and climate change had been supported by two reasonable theories. Manmade was one of the two. The other theory had to do with all the geological evidence of the earth. Data collected over decades, for nearly the last billion years of the earth's history, showed that the earth had naturally gone through many cycles of climate change over time. This theory had the most basis in terms of hard evidence to support itself. The made-man theory had never occurred before, in all of earth's history and had no direct evidence that it was even possible.
Both theories needed resources, but the money givers shifted all the money to only one side and then used political pressure to dismiss the other side, that had the most science proof of its theory. The one-sided science that was done, was still good science, but not all the possible science data was generated, by being so one sided in terms of resource allocation to two theories. The result was the conclusions, by default, based on all the new data generated, favored the theory with more money and less political pressure. A consensus of science formed, via this carrot and stick approach by the money managers. If you wanted resources and wanted to avoid harassment, you needed to toe the line.
The great flood of Gore, did not happen and yet nobody in science blamed the theory since this would have resulted in political backlash and the drying up of your well. Outsiders needs to be careful, not about the scientific method, but about the desires of the benefactors of science, calling the shots, in terms what science theory they need for their own agendas.
There are many conceptual flaws in cornerstone theories of science but these are ignored since scientists are not steering the ship. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place and need resources from those who have set the course, I jumped ship long ago and swam to an island, so I could be true to science and not the benefactors; science swamp. There are others out there, who are easy to dismiss, due to lack of resources to generate proof, but not by sound reasoning.