IS GLOBAL WARMING BUNK? PART III
From those on the religious side of things—those rascally, wacky Evangelicals/other Christians—and now I am talking about the ones who haven’t bowed down to secular science’s millions and billions of years (much to the secular scientist’s dismay, anger, and even angst), there is no need to worry about global warming either. You see, there are some who believe that the world was subjected to the judgment of God in the form of a global flood. Those who understand it this way believe the Flood, the Deluge if you will, was not a local—many skeptical secular scientists today would like to suggest the Flood was local—but a global phenomenon.
The demise of most of the dinosaurs was probably not a meteor (as popular science has suggested but not proven) but a worldwide deluge which is to blame then for most of the extinctions in the past fossil record (except for that, of course, of poor creatures like the passenger pigeon).
Young-earth creationists would suggest that after the Flood there was one ice age, and now the world is moving back to a state of climatic equilibrium. That state was one of tropical paradise as the book of Genesis would suggest. By the way, this tropical paradise state is thoroughly consistent with the fossil record—even in Antarctica.
I would suggest that whatever you believe, whether the understanding of the secular scientist, or that of the creationist, that if you really believe global warming is occurring, it is not caused by us, but is perhaps an inevitable consequence of earthly phenomena over which we have absolutely no control. So it may simply be inevitable. To answer the question whether global warming is bunk or not is debatable, but that it is being caused by us is bunk!
For instance, considering earthly phenomena we can’t control—one large, continuous volcanic eruption is capable of producing more air particulants/pollutants worldwide than humans have produced in the few hundred years since the Industrial Revolution!
And if it’s inevitable, why not enjoy it? Just think, Florida-like weather coming to a Dakota near you! Or consider this, more cities with canals like Venice, and more countries like the Netherlands with its dikes. Or how about this? Scuba dive in lovely downtown New York!
So perhaps we can say that global warming really isn’t necessarily bunk, but we need not be so arrogant to think that we’re the ones who could be causing it. However, if you must, feel free to worry. We can do a lot to the earth’s surface, but we can hardly control the weather.
If you don’t believe me, then I can finally say that everyone knows it’s the aliens that are ruining the earth’s environment! Just kidding. We all know it’s really household pets that rule the world. Forgive me for being facetious, it’s just too fun. Cal out.
-Cal Samuel August.
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