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Who Are the Real Science Deniers?

by E. Calvin Beisner

So you think of science (or maybe I should say “science”?) as a solid, objective, trustworthy activity? Certainly a whole lot more credible than, say, philosophy, or theology, or fortune telling? Before I go on, let me assure you that I value science (without the scare quotes) a great deal. (Philosophy and theology, too—but not fortune telling!) But today a lot of what goes by the name of science deserves the scare quotes. And that should scare us, for a lot of reasons, because it means we’re … [Read more...]

Dated: August 11, 2016

Tagged With: "Big Science is broken", "Scientific Regress", "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False", John P.A. Ioannidis, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Peer Review, Post-Normal Science, science deniers, William A. Wilson
Filed Under: Biodiversity & Endangered Species, Climate Consensus, Post-Normal Science

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

by E. Calvin Beisner

  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 in which science could flourish, wrote, “In one of those strange permutations of which history yields … [Read more...]

Dated: May 13, 2016

Tagged With: Al Gore, Alfred North Whitehead, Andrew Dickson White, Charles Thaxton, Climate Models, deconstructionism, Eva Kunseler, history of science, History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Jerome Ravetz, John William Draper, Karl Popper, Loren Eisley, Lynn White Jr., Mike Hulme, Nancy Pearcey, philosophy of science, Pierre Duhem, Post-Normal Science, Postmodernism, resacralizing nature, Richard Lindzen, Rodney Stark, Roy W. Spencer, Sallie McFague, science and faith, science and religion, Silvio Funtowicz, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, The Soul of Science, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Torrance
Filed Under: Climate & Energy, Climate Policy, Environmental Religion, Post-Normal Science, Religion & Science

Do AGs Bent on Prosecuting Climate Skeptics Have a Political Agenda?

by E. Calvin Beisner

You can’t make these things up! A small group of attorneys general, led by New York AG Eric Schneiderman, held a press conference Wednesday, March 30, to announce their determination to track down and prosecute for fraud (knowingly conveying false information to enrich oneself or harm others) evil skeptics of climate change. One look at this photo tells you everything you need to know about their real agenda. It just so happens that the fate of the Obama Administration's most … [Read more...]

Dated: April 5, 2016

Tagged With: Academic Freedom, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Clean Power Plan, climate consensus, climate skeptics, Environmental Protection Agency, Eric Schneiderman, free press, free scientific debate, free speech, Post-Normal Science, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO Act
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment

The Theologization of Global Warming Among American Evangelicals: Who Says Religion and Science Can’t Mix?

by E. Calvin Beisner

[Note: This essay was written in the summer of 2010 at the request of Dr. Patrick Michaels, intended for a book he was editing. His publisher declined to include it in the book because of its religious content. It was never published elsewhere until now. We hope it remains a helpful survey of the history of the debate over global warming among evangelicals up to that time.—ECB, March 11, 2016] Introduction In the last half decade there has been a blossoming of public concern about global … [Read more...]

Dated: March 11, 2016

Tagged With: "Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action", Al Gore, Arne Naess, Barrett Duke, Benjamin B. Phillips, Bill Moyers, Black Church Environmental Justice Network, Calvin DeWitt, cargo cult science, Carl Sagan, Carol J. Adams, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Charles Colson, Cliff Ollier, Climate Change, climate ethics, Climategate, Cornelis van Kooten, Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, Cornwall Stewardship Agenda, Craig Vincent Mitchell, Creation Care, David Legates, David McKenna, David R. Legates, David Saperstein, Declaration of the Mission to Washington, Deconstruction, Deep Ecology, degradations of creation, Edward Wilson, Eric Chivian, Ernst Haeckel, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Eva Kunseler, Evangelical Climate Initiative, Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation, Evangelical Environmental Network, Evangelical Environmentalism, evangelicals and global warming, Evangelicals for Social Action, Friedrich Nietsche, Global Warming, Global Warming the Complete Briefing, Gordon Aeschliman, Henry David Thoreau, Indur Goklany, Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship, Interfaith Stewardship Alliance, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, irrationalism, Jacques Derrida, James Dobson, James Lovelock, James Parks Morton, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jerome Ravetz, Jim Ball, Joan Brown Campbell, John Carr, John Christy, John Houghton, John Muir, John Ruskay, Joint Appeal by Religion and Science for the Environment, Jonathan Merritt, Kevin McGrane, KUDOS, Let the Earth Be Glad, Ludwig Klages, Martin L. Weitzman, Michael Kinnamon, Michel Foucault, Mike Hulme, Ming-dah Chou, National Council of Churches, National Religious Partnership on the Environment, Nils-Axel Mörner, Normal Science, NRPE, Paul Driessen, Paul Gorman, Paul Thompson, Pete Geddes, philosophy of science, Post-Normal Science, Postmodernism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Renewed Call to Truth Prudence and Protection of the Poor, Richard Cizik, Richard Land, Richard S. Lindzen, Robert Dugan, Robert K. Merton, Robert Seiple, Ronald J. Sider, Ross McKitrick, Roy W. Spencer, Rusty Pritchard, Sally McFague, Silvio Funtowicz, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change, Søren Kierkegaard, Stephen E. Schwartz, Stephen H. Schneider, Steve Hayner, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Ted Haggard, Thomas Kuhn, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, United Jewish Appeal, Urgent Call to Action: Scientists and Evangelicals Unite to Protect Creation, World Vision, Yong-Sang Choi
Filed Under: Climate Policy, Environmental & Social Justice, Environmental Religion, Global Warming Science, Post-Normal Science, Religion & Ethics, Religion & Science

Climate McCarthyism Alive and Well in France

by E. Calvin Beisner

France Télévisions’ chief weather forecaster, Philippe Verdier, boldly told the world in his new book Climat Investigation that the IPCC and other climate alarmists are guilty of “taking the world hostage” to bad science, bad economics, and bad politics. It didn’t take long for the axe to fall. France Télévisions, a government-run station, put him on “forced holiday” as punishment. According to the UK Telegraph, “unions at France Television called for Mr Verdier to be fired, but that Delphine … [Read more...]

Dated: October 15, 2015

Tagged With: climate bullies, climate McCarthyism, COP21, global warming consensus, IPCC, Philippe Verdier, Post-Normal Science
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate & Energy, Global Warming Science

20 Scientists Call for Prosecution of CAGW Critics—Judith Curry Puts them to Shame

by E. Calvin Beisner

Recently 20 scientists, firm believers in CAGW and proponents of policies to reduce it, sent a letter to the White House supporting a call by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) for criminal prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act of scientists who disagree with them. Hello?! Anybody ever heard of the First Amendment---you know, that stuff about freedom of speech and of the press? Or, for those who don't like America's Constitution and Bill of Rights, … [Read more...]

Dated: September 29, 2015

Tagged With: Academic Freedom, Barack Obama, free press, free speech, Judith Curry, Lysenkoism, Post-Normal Science, Raul Grijalva, Sheldon Whitehouse
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate Policy, Global Warming Science, Politics & Law, Post-Normal Science, Religion & Ethics, Religion & Science

Physicist Gordon Fulks discusses the Left’s politicization of science and paganization of religion

by E. Calvin Beisner

Just received this from Gordon J. Fulks (Ph.D., Physics), of the University of Chicago Laboratory for Astrophysics, Mission Research Corporation, Corbett, OR, via email, and he permitted me to publish it here on our blog. It's right on target. Politics has clearly compromised science via billions of dollars going to those scientists willing to play along.  Now politicians are targeting traditional religions by drawing in those who are their ideological brothers.  It is surprising that the Pope … [Read more...]

Dated: June 16, 2015

Tagged With: Climate Change, Creation Care, Environmental Religion, Global Warming, paganism, physics, politicization of science, Post-Normal Science, religious environmentalism, Science Education, scientific illiteracy
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment

“Climate Scientists” and Mainstream Media Team Up Again to Incite Groundless Fears

by E. Calvin Beisner

The mainstream media and global warming alarmists are at it again—confusing weather with climate, appealing to “tipping points,” doing their best to scare the public into the kind of panic that would let politicians commit us to budget-busting, economy-crippling, liberty-destroying policies to fight it. Last week CNN breathlessly reported, “More record warmth as scientists warn of global tipping point.” The article began: It's hot out there. But this time, it's more than idle watercooler talk, … [Read more...]

Dated: June 13, 2012

Tagged With: Climate Change, Education, Global Warming, Landmark Documents, Post-Normal Science
Filed Under: Climate & Energy, Climate Policy, Environmental Education, Global Warming Science, Politics & Law

Wanted for Premeditated Murder: How Post-Normal Science Stabbed Real Science in the Back on the Way to the Illusion of “Scientific Consensus” on Global Warming

by E. Calvin Beisner

"Climate Change and the Death of Science" is the most important article we've linked to in quite a long time. If you have time to read nothing else from this issue, read this. It's worth every minute it will take. As Climategate and other transgressions of fundamental scientific procedure by global warming alarmists continue to unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a great deal of what's been called "climate science" isn't science at all. It's ideological propaganda, often religious (but … [Read more...]

Dated: March 18, 2010

Tagged With: Normal Science, Post-Normal Science, Science Methodology
Filed Under: Climate & Energy, Global Warming Science

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May 23, 2025 – Grand Rapids, MI

GR.Church, 4525 Stauffer Avenue Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI 49508

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Cornwall Alliance President, and Steve Goreham, Cornwall Alliance Board Member, will hold a symposium on Sustainable Energy, Climate Change, and the costs to YOUR life.  For tickets and more information, click HERE.

June 18-21, 2025–Dallas, TX

Cornwall Alliance will be a host of the Association of Classical Christian Schools’ (ACCS) annual Repairing the Ruins conference in Dallas, TX, and will have an exhibit booth.

Details and registration can be found HERE.

September 19-20–Arlington, VA

Dr Beisner will represent the Cornwall Alliance at the fall meeting of the Philadelphia Society and will have a literature table.

Attendance is for Society members and invited guests only. To inquire about an invitation, email Dr. Cal Beisner: Calvin@cornwallalliance.org.

September 26-27– Lynchburg, VA

Dr. Beisner will be speaking at the Christian Education Initiative Annual Summit, “Advancing Christ’s Kingdom Through Biblical Worldview Education.” 

Details and registration can be found HERE.

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