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Evangelicals show caution on going "green"
The WeGetIt.org campaign urges people to embrace Biblical creation stewardship without succumbing to media hype, speculative fears, and environmental policies that will harm the world's poor. These concerns are particularly important regarding manmade, catastrophic global warming.
It seems American evangelicals embrace that message. The Barna Research Group just released the results of a survey showing that while 90% of evangelicals "would like Christians to take a more active role in caring for creation," only 27% believe global warming is happening, while 65% perceive the media have "hyped the story," 62% believe climate change is cyclical and "not primarily caused by human activity," and 60% are concerned "that proposed solutions would hurt the poor, especially in other countries."
The WeGetIt.org declaration is a simple statement by which Christians can show that they are united to protect the environment and the poor. Please forward this to your friends and encourage them to join you in sending a strong message to our leaders!
Leading historian slams "The Nonsense of
Global Warming"
Paul Johnson, author of award-winning works in history (including Modern Times, The Birth of the Modern, and History of the Jews), says global warming alarmists need to look at history. If they would, they'd find that current climate change is nothing new.
They also need to be better scientists, he says in "The Nonsense of Global Warming," in Forbes Magazine's October 6 issue. "I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming,” Johnson says. Popper pointed out that Albert Einstein named three tests in the natural world that his General Theory of Relativity would have to pass to be credible.
In contrast, pseudo-scientists, like Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, devised "theories" that were untestable and therefore unscientific. Proponents of manmade, catastrophic global warming do the same.
"The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels . . . has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules," writes Johnson
Three examples of global warming alarmists' lack of scientific understanding are that they continue to insist that CO2 drives warming despite the poor correlation between CO2 and temperature, the strong correlation between solar activity and temperature, and the lack of the telltale sign of CO2-driven warming: a "hot spot" in the tropical troposphere.
Earth and garden: The mandates of Genesis 1:28 and 2:15
A key verse for understanding Biblical creation stewardship is Genesis 1:28, which says God blessed Adam and Eve "and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'" Another is Genesis 2:15, which says God put Adam "into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it."
God intends people to fill the Earth in order to subdue and rule it. Some evangelical environmentalists argue that subdue and rule in 1:28 should be interpreted in light of cultivate and keep in 2:15, softening their sense. But the words translated subdue and rule are forceful, the former meaning to bring into bondage, to tread down, and the latter to have dominion, chastise, tread, or prevail against, while cultivate and keep translate Hebrew words meaning to labor, work, or do work, and to watch, preserve, or guard. Further, Genesis 2:8-15 describes the garden as part of the Earth, not all of it.
So Adam was first to inhabit the garden, enhancing its fruitfulness and guarding it against invasion. Then he was to multiply and venture out from the garden to fill the rest of the Earth and to subdue and rule it, transforming it from wilderness to garden.
Now, please forward this message to your pastor, other Christian leaders, and friends and urge them to sign the declaration, too!
The more people sign, the stronger the message our leaders will hear that Biblical principles and factual evidence, not media hype about speculative fears like global warming, should guide our care for the environment and the poor.
Gratefully,
-- The WeGetIt.org campaign team
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