[Dan Evans]

Perhaps the point to stress is here is hubris, and not religion. Nobody has a monopoly on hubris.

Speaking of hubris, I've always felt that the difference between the religious view of nature and the environmentalist view is this: the Bible says Man should dominate and subdue nature, environmentalists believe that environmentalists should dominate and subdue Man.

[cornelis]

Interesting. Although if you let me be finicky, I would point out that you have given the difference between a biblical view and the environmentalist view.

This is an important distinction in light of this discussion because it's so easy commit another version of the same old fallacy of mistaking some part for the whole, that a religious view of nature = a biblical view of nature.