Evangelicals, Katharine Hayhoe, and Climate Change

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an evangelical scientist who desires the wellbeing of human society. She crunches data and helps people quantify the impacts of climate change. Sadly, her communication to the church has been anything but helpful. Dr. Hayhoe says, “The data tells us the planet is warming; the science is clear that humans are […]

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Pope Francis and Climate Politics

Reuters reports, “Pope Francis urged national leaders on Monday to implement global environmental agreements without delay, a message that looked to be squarely aimed at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. “Addressing a group of scientists that included theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the pope gave his strongest speech on the environment since the election of Trump, who

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Rescuing Science from Itself: How to Restore Rationality to an Increasingly Irrational Endeavor

“You can give respectability to mythology if you couch your myth in sufficiently academic language.” —Dr. R.C. Sproul Who in twenty-first century America would say that “science … our one source of objective knowledge, is in deep trouble” because “much of [the] supposed knowledge” it brings us “is turning out to be contestable, unreliable, unusable,

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Whom to Trust? NASA GISS, NASA, or Cornwall Alliance?

After citing a couple of Cornwall Alliance’s articles in discussion, an educator friend got this response from one of his former students: The problem with referencing the Cornwall Alliance to discredit statistics from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies is that one (the Cornwall Alliance) is a political advocacy organization with no scientific relevance while

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From Climate to LGBTQ, Poor Discernment Knows No Boundaries

The ability to “test all things, hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21) is something that all Christian leaders/teachers are obligated to cultivate assiduously. Liberal Baptist theologian/ethicist David Gushee, discussed in Rod Dreher’s blog post “We Have Been Warned,” has failed in that and led many thousands of Christians into serious errors in theology,

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Sin, Deception, and the Corruption of Science: A Look at the So-Called Climate Crisis

Summary The climate crisis agenda provides an excellent training opportunity for Christians to “test all things, hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21) because it involves a revival of ancient pagan themes in science, the educational establishment, business, and politics. Sadly, it demonstrates how those themes are corrupting the scientific method that has contributed

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How Theology Can, and Should, Contribute to Scientific and Public Discourse about Anthropogenic Global Warming

  A paper presented to the Round Table on Theology, Climate Change, and Politics, University of Western Ontario, May 29, 2012 Paleoanthropologist and philosopher Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), who though religious in the tradition of American Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau was certainly no orthodox Christian theist, on reflecting on the kind of soil

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