EVERY DAY, articles like the following are posted here on Free Republic:
U.S. Astronaut Jack Schmitt Joins Global Warming Skeptics
Note the key paragraphs:
"Schmitt will be among more than 70 scientists, economists, public officials, legal experts, and climate specialists calling attention to new research that contradicts claims that Earth’s moderate warming during the twentieth century primarily was man-made and has reached crisis proportions.
"Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, producer of the event along with more than 30 co-sponsors, explained, “At the first conference last March, we proved that the skeptics in the debate over global warming constitute the center or mainstream of the scientific community while alarmists are on the fringe.
" “Now in the past nine months, the science has grown even more convincing that global warming is not a crisis. Also suggesting this ‘crisis’ is over are opinion polls in the U.S. and around the globe and political events, including the decisive defeat of ‘cap-and-trade’ legislation in the U.S. Senate last spring. The crisis has been canceled by sound science and common sense.”
Nothing even remotely resembling these reports has EVER come out of the anti-evolution crowd.
St. Augustine of Hippo (AD 354 to 430) is recognized as the greatest thinker amongst the early Church Fathers.
From Scott, p49: St. Augustine, among other early church leaders, argued in the fourth and fifth centuries that it was bad theology to accept biblical statements about the natural world uncritically if such statements contradicted experience. He felt that too strict adherence to biblical literalism regarding statements about the natural world would diminish the credibility of proselytizers.
Augustine: "Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience.
"Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, while presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well, and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about the Scriptures, how then are they going to believe those Scriptures in matters concerning the Resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?
"How indeed, when they think that their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learned from experience and the light of reason?"
(Saint Augustine 1982: 42-43)