“This nation is quickly evolving into a broke, Third World mess, and THIS is what they’re concerned about???? Unbelievable!”
More than that, there is a difference between a Theistic-Evolutionist or a Scientist who is a believer and an uneducated ideologue. To state that people who do not believe in atheistic evolution are less well educated or less intelligent than those that do is simply character assassination.
The question itself at least as it is phrased in the article is also misleading because it is too broad. Evolutionist, atheistic ones themselves say that life remains in a constant state with very little or NO change for many millions of years (Punctuated Equilibrium) and that evolutionary changes tend to occur very rapidly and then slow down or stop for millions of years. That is why we can’t actually see evolution occur. It appears to me that there is a lot of room in such a system for God to work. If you actually read the first few chapters of Genesis you clearly see and almost textbook evolutionary progression of initial creation, a differentiation of matter an energy, lessor animals like fish and birds, higher animals and then humans.
The issue that most Christians have with evolution is actually not evolution but natural selection and the time scale. Einstein showed that time is not constant. Thus it is entirely possible that what Good could do in 6 days would appear as billions of years to us. Even scientist have abandoned natural selection for the most part as the driver for evolution.
As to Climate Change, the issue is actually is it primarily related to human activity or part of a larger climate cycle inherent in nature? What you do about it, if anything is very different depending upon what you think causes the problem.
This is just another in the endless stream of articles that the godless-left SPEW (To use one of their their favorite pejoratives) to try and convince themselves that they are really smarter than everyone else. It is also their justification for tyranny.
Punctuated Equilibrium is loosing adherents as more is known about the effects of catastrophes like major boloid strikes, megavolcanoes, etc. on evolution and climate. For example hominid evolution began about 5 million years ago, and has changed over the years. In the past 100,000 years we have had several large/major events. The eruption of Toba which left a crater about 18 by 65 miles had a very major effect on all the hominid populations 74,000 years ago. Basically, only Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens were left in large enough quantity to continue as populations. Neanderthals died off for whatever reason between 20 and 35 thousand years ago, leaving about 1 to 4% genetic traces in the Sapiens population. They were apparently adapted to northern glacial conditions with pale skin and eyes and red hair. Around 40,000 years ago southern Sapiens mutated a white skin gene which allowed them to move north since their women could absorb enough Vitamin D to develop good child bearing hip structure. About 7 or 8 thousand years ago the genetic capacity for people to continue using milk into adulthood appeared in people moving into Europe from central Asia. This genetic change had strong survival benefits in the people with cattle and cold winters. So evolution is hardly static even for us.
Another more recent event was boloid(s) which hit the Northern Hemisphere about 13,000 years ago, destroyed the Clovis culture and probably started the rapid disappearance of many large northern mammals. Three million years ago North and South American linked up in the Panama area and led to significant biota changes and more evolution.
Please state your sources for the idea that scientists have dropped natural selection as the driver for evolution. Maybe meteorologists have dropped it but certainly not geneticists. When conditions change significantly, natural selection among minor (or occasionally major) varients is what increases their presence in the surviving population—white skin, lactose tolerance, etc.