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Posted on 02/08/2006 11:36:19 AM PST by conservative in nyc
"The question is, do we want to destroy the Creation — with a capital C [as in the Bible's Creation story] — because that's what we're doing, and at an accelerating rate."
The speaker was not one of the evangelical leaders at today's news conference in Washington announcing a major initiative to fight global warming.
The speaker was one of America's preeminent scientists, Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, who believes that "an alliance of science and religion" over questions of global warming and of the destruction of species can be a powerful force to prevent the catastrophe.
"It doesn't matter whether you believe Darwin got it right or that the Genesis story is literally true," Wilson said in his office on campus. "We can all agree that, however it got here, the living creation — on which we all depend for our existence — is something we don't want to see destroyed."
New environmental movements among conservative Christians suggest Wilson is right. One of them is named "Creation Care."
For decades, Wilson has been drawing attention to the extinctions of species and entire ecosystems caused by habitat destruction.
But now hundreds of scientists around the world are reporting that the rapidly rising average global temperature is already causing widespread extinctions of species and the dispersal of delicately balanced ecologies of plants and animals — and doing so at a rate that may already be greater than that of habitat destruction.
"I am an optimist by nature," Wilson said. "But I have to admit, it's getting kind of scary."
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I thought global warming was going to cause the new Ice Age. What happened?
And what will the bill be, our way of life?
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BP and Shell in action. Kyoto Scam plus religion. In the NYTimes report the pastors praised BP and Shell and espoused "market based solutions" - you guessed it, the "carbon credit" trading racket.
Well, the National Association of Evangelicals aren't a part of this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1570114/posts
I do get a blast out of watching Bill Blakemore's "environmental
reporting" on ABC News.
He's always running around places like the Artic, moaning about the
end of the world...while he's buring up fossil fuels on a huge boat, and then
showing us all the endangered indigenous peoples that are gunning the motors
on their ATVs and turning up the thermostat on their nice houses
full of computers, ovens and wide-screen videos.
Bleedin' hypocrite.
We are not "destroying" the Creation, we are simply modifying it for the better.
Where did you come by this "sky being black" info? I'm not saying its wrong, it just sounds interesting.
Although "human raw sewage" and "industrial toxic waste" are different forms of pollution, either way, nothing can survive too long around either. At least, not any more.
But definately on the mark about the total lack of sanitation in Europe during the Dark Ages...up til not to long ago, relatively speaking.
Funny how the Romans and, I believe, the Egyptians figured out the benefits of not living surrounded by your own feces and urine and then the barbarians came and all the sudden it was all right to live in filth.
Think of outhouses. Fecal matter spreads through the air.
Like George Carlin says, "the earth will find a way to survive while incorporating plastic into its grand plan...it will simply be earth plus plastic."
I don't think there's any serious doubt in scientific circles that there is a global warming trend underway. The serious debate is over how much, if any of that trend is attributable to human activity. We are also in a period of unusually high sunspot activity, and that has been cited as a possible contributor.
The answer to the question "What's causing it?" has a lot of bearing on how to answer the question "What to do about it?". There are probably some measures that make sense regardless of the cause. But most of the measures proposed by left-wing activists make sense only if human activity is the primary cause. And intelligent people have questioned whether those proposed measures would even make sense, if it had been incontrovertibly proven that human activity was the primary cause -- if you have to destroy 80% of the world economy, in order to make a 10% dent in the rate of global warming, that wouldn't make a lot of sense -- better to just start building a lot of large floating islands, and preparing to make the Arctic and Antartic regions the global centers of agriculture.
Dems know they have to peel off a few evangelicals if they are going to win another election. This is open pandering.
But its open pandering in a good cause. I would say that Mars is the "canary in the mine". If even Mars is heating up, which it is, then clearly things on earth are out of control.
We have to get Bush out of office, we have to transfer more of our industrial base to China, and we have to do it before its too late. The fate of the entire Solar System hangs in the balance, people. What would Jesus do?
oops, ping to #12
the old go from NY to Florida to die. So humans inherently seek warmth.
We vacation to places that are warm!
We work on our tans. No one works on their frostbite!
We pick bikinis over parkas!
We go out when its warm. We stay in when its cold.
No one like shoveling snow!
All I got to say is bring it on! Winter sucks!
And there's the problem. Capitalism has produced much cleaner societies with much less pollution. Therefore, there are fewer particulates in the atmosphere to block the sun's rays and thus we have global warming.
*SIGH* If only we could go back to the good old days you describe...
Global warming--I'm all for it!! Plant more plants..I despise winter.
This is welcome news! Obviously many here are on the other side of the debate but for those of us concerned about the issue its a great day. Responible choices and religion working with science, wow! Its time we all take this issue seriously and not make it a partisan football, this will help in that effort.
I hardly think the majority of Creationists are backing this.
I couldn't agree more. I left Texas for a year to work in Connecticut, and got back to Texas as fast as possible for that very reason. Well, that and the inedible Connecticut Mexican food. I would add, however, that it would be a better world if some people would pick parkas over bikinis.
BTW, this story is not at all surprising. A group of people who prize faith over scientific evidence join another group that does the same thing. Religions stick together. This is news?
What choices are you talking about? And what do you propose be done to "take this issue seriously"?
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