E. Calvin Beisner

Dr. Beisner is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance; former Associate Professor of Historical Theology & Social Ethics, at Knox Theological Seminary, and of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Covenant College; and author of “Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate” and “Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future.”

Cornwall Senior Fellow Blasts Global Warming Alarmism in Senate Hearing

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Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy Spencer testified July 18 before the Senate Subcommittee on Environment and Public Works in a hearing on global warming. “The lack of statistically significant warming in the last 15 years,” Spencer told the committee via his written testimony, “… is sometimes glossed over with the claim that the global temperature […]

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‘Evangelical Scientists and Academics’ Mistaken in Urging Congress to Act on Climate

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  Climatologist Dr. David Legates’s response  to the letter from “evangelical scientists and academics” urging Congress to immediate action to fight global warming by reducing fossil fuel use points out some of its factual inaccuracies and the harms that would be done by acting on its advice. It’s also interesting to look at the letter as

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Does Caring for “the Least of These” Demand Fighting Global Warming?

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Recently, my fellow evangelical scientists and academics sent a letter to the United States Congress urging immediate legislation on climate change. In an effort to care for the planet—God’s second greatest gift to humanity—they argue that our uncontrolled use of fossil fuels will disproportionately affect the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed. I applaud their concern

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Science Class? Or Religious Humanist Recruiting Ground?

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Where is Dr. Mauerbry when we need her? Thirty-seven years ago, in a freshman college course on physical anthropology, the professor required every student to write a term paper on a topic of his choice. I said I’d like to write on scientific evidences against Darwinian, naturalistic evolution. “This is a science course, not a

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Theism, Darwinism, and Environmentalism in a Lab Coat: Next Generation Science Standards Coming to YOUR State Soon!

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Last month the Kansas State Board of Education voted to make Kansas the third state (following Rhode Island and Kentucky) to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The “voluntary” (until adopted by state boards of education) NGSS are the brainchild of Achieve, Inc., a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by various state governors and business leaders and

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Is Fighting Global Warming the Solution to Water Shortages in Malawi (or Elsewhere)?

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In late May two evangelical environmentalists, recently returned from visiting Malawi, published articles in which they said poor Malawians are suffering from reduced rainfall caused by manmade global warming. Jonathan Merritt wrote for Religion News Service, “In America, climate change is a matter of debate, but in places like Malawi, it’s a matter of life and

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What Kind of Person Makes a Good Earth Steward?

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Sometimes we can get so into the thick of things that we miss the big picture. We get our priorities out of balance—family overwhelms church, or church family; work overwhelms fellowship, or fellowship work; nutritional precision overwhelms enjoyment of God’s good gifts of foods—or vice versa! With regard to Earth stewardship—fulfilling the mandate for godly

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Learning about God from Dark Lightning, Sprites, Blue Jets, Elves, Crawlers

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Sometimes we just need to shut our mouths, stand back, and watch. I’ve been driven to that many times while watching storms—one 30 years ago rushing out of the north at my little house in north-central Michigan, one 25 years ago over the New Mexico desert with a train in the foreground and glowing red-rock

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