Every once in a while we get unfriendly emails. This one came last week: I am very disappointed to see such a lack of credibility relating to climate change in your organization. It is arguably the single biggest threat to the planet and to dealing with the issue of poverty. The fact that your organization is in denial not only does damage to the planet but also to the Christian faith in general. It’s time start [sic] embracing science and to move beyond blind ideology. Presumably some of you … [Read more...]
Does Caring for “the Least of These” Demand Fighting Global Warming?
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 for the environment and for those in defense of whom Jesus commanded us to be especially diligent. But their call to reduce … [Read more...]
Science Class? Or Religious Humanist Recruiting Ground?
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 religion course,” she replied. “You can’t do that.” “Who said anything about religion?” I replied. “I want to write about scientific evidences.” She insisted that all … [Read more...]
Theism, Darwinism, and Environmentalism in a Lab Coat: Next Generation Science Standards Coming to YOUR State Soon!
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 a major promoter of the controversialand expensive new Common Core Standards. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education … [Read more...]
Justice, Schmustice – Don’t Let Green Progressives Steal a Good Term
“Last month, the EPA released for public comment an 81-page ‘Draft Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis,’” reports Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Steven F. Hayward. “… The ‘technical guidance’ lays out a detailed framework for assessing the demographic and racial impact of regulations, such as how to identify minority populations at higher health risk. ‘Minority, low-income, and indigenous populations experience greater exposure and disease burdens … [Read more...]
What Kind of Person Makes a Good Earth Steward?
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 dominion—it’s easy to get narrowly focused on either of two balancing tasks: subduing, ruling, tilling, and keeping the Earth (Genesis … [Read more...]
Learning about God from Dark Lightning, Sprites, Blue Jets, Elves, Crawlers
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 cliffs beyond it, several in the 1980s and early 1990s closing in on my little house in northwest Arkansas perilously close to Tornado Alley, many in the 1990s bearing down on my old house … [Read more...]
The Real Root, and the Real Cure, of Eco-Fears
If there’s anything that almost universally describes today’s environmental movement, it’s fear: fear of global warming, fear of sea-level rise, fear of rapid species extinction, fear of dead zones in the oceans, fear of topsoil erosion, fear of running out of oil, fear of finding and burning too much oil (or coal or natural gas), fear of nuclear waste, fear of deforestation, fear of overpopulation—the list could go on and on. The common denominator is fear. Yet the most common command in the … [Read more...]
Arm Yourself and Your Friends Against the Fatal Cult of Anti-Humanism!
“In the event that I were reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”—Prince Philip of England, patron of the World Wildlife Fund, environmentalist “World population must be stabilized, and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day.”—Jacques Cousteau, famous oceanographer, producer of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, environmentalist “A total population of 250–300 million people, a 95% decline from present … [Read more...]
Public School Science Standards: Political or Pure?
(Dr. Beisner delivered this lecture at the 24th Annual Educational Policy Conference of the Constitutional Coalition in St. Louis, Missouri, January 25, 2013.) For generations America’s public schools have indoctrinated our children with the dogma of Darwinism: life arose and developed by chance, no Creator involved. Now they’re poised to indoctrinate them with another dogma: catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW)—and with it a whole catalog of other exaggerated and sometimes … [Read more...]
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