Global Warming from a Biblical Point of View

[Mike Elphick]

In the recent issue of AiG's peer-reviewed Answers Research Journal we read advice about how young earth creationists should view global warming and respond to its proponents.

The author (Rod Martin) tell us that his paper does not answer all the questions, but its objective is to offer a biblical framework for evaluating claims about global warming and to demonstrate consistency of this framework with basic science.

We are told the atmosphere was intentionally designed and created by God to support all types of life, plants, animals, and mankind. The original atmosphere was created to contain the 'right' amount of CO2 for the plants and 'sufficient' O2 for animals and mankind. The author tells us how very different this atmospheric history is from that supplied by the 'evolution story'. Thus, a created atmosphere has purpose and greater stability, both things lacking in a "randomly evolved atmosphere".

The paper emphasises in several places that the Earth was created for the benefit of mankind, though man is ultimately accountable to God.

Conclusion
The biblical history of the earth, contained in the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis, provides a useful and sufficient framework for evaluating the current global warming issue. As we have seen, CO2 is a natural atmospheric gas that is essential for man’s existence. It is not a pollutant. The atmosphere is likely deficient in CO2 compared with the original created atmosphere. Reducing CO2 would definitely create problems, but increasing it will not. Burning fossil fuels merely returns CO2 to its place of origin. Forests are to be used for man’s benefit. They are not needed to produce O2 and they have no intrinsic rights, but should be managed responsibly and effectively.

Basic science is consistent with the biblical history and argues strongly against the global warming hypothesis. Melting glaciers and changing climates are not an indication of man-made global warming. These natural phenomena have been operating for thousands of years. Temperature histories are imprecise and unreliable. Global warming is built on an evolutionary earth history and an evolutionary time scale. Anything built on a faulty foundation cannot stand. Global warming is an offshoot of evolutionary thinking and is needlessly creating mass hysteria. God is in control of the earth, not man.

It can be expected that several trends evident since the Flood, however, will continue: sea level will rise as polar glaciers continue to melt, and deserts will expand. These trends, as we have shown, have little to do with CO2, they are a consequence of a God-ordained event, the Flood. Governments with either ocean boundaries or deserts should consider how to efficiently and economically address these trends.

There is no viable justification either biblically or scientifically for limiting the generation of CO2 or restricting logging of forests. In view of the great benefit of CO2 it is absolutely unnecessary to consider spending billions of dollars to restrict something that is extremely good for mankind and the earth. We cannot properly understand creation apart from God’s Word. Viewing global warming within a Bible-science perspective brings much needed clarity to this issue.

These guys really scare me with their talk of man being God's supreme creation and 'caretaker' of the world. The very last thing I want to see is human beings controlling everything on the planet, but this particular YECist nut-pot author doesn't seem to care, even about chopping down the forests to make burger steaks. And if we all mess it up, God is there in ultimate control to see us all right. It's odd too, that for a YECist, he seems to have forgotten about God's curse and the degeneration it introduced into the world...

 

[Exiledoomsayer]

So this is the next move on the anti-agw side then.
Got to admit its a tried and tested one that seems to work well. Associate global warming with evolution, asociate evolution with atheism, Asociate atheism with satanic worship.

Seems to have worked for everything in that chain so the latest link probably will work too. Its not as though the people its targeted at have any education worth speaking off.

 

[BananaSlug]

If you accept global warming then you accept evolution. If you accept evolution, you are an atheist. Makes sense, right?

 

[Exiledoomsayer]

Yup makes perfect sense.
Does that pretty much cover everything that could upset their world view? all of science and reason?
They been cherry picking the bible so long they think it works for science books too.

 

[dad]

In the recent issue of AiG's peer-reviewed Answers Research Journal we read advice about how young earth creationists should view global warming and respond to its proponents.

The author (Rod Martin) tell us that his paper does not answer all the questions, but its objective is to offer a biblical framework for evaluating claims about global warming and to demonstrate consistency of this framework with basic science.

We are told the atmosphere was intentionally designed and created by God to support all types of life, plants, animals, and mankind. The original atmosphere was created to contain the 'right' amount of CO2 for the plants and 'sufficient' O2 for animals and mankind. The author tells us how very different this atmospheric history is from that supplied by the 'evolution story'. Thus, a created atmosphere has purpose and greater stability, both things lacking in a "randomly evolved atmosphere".

The paper emphasises in several places that the Earth was created for the benefit of mankind, though man is ultimately accountable to God.



These guys really scare me with their talk of man being God's supreme creation and 'caretaker' of the world. The very last thing I want to see is human beings controlling everything on the planet, but this particular YECist nut-pot author doesn't seem to care, even about chopping down the forests to make burger steaks. And if we all mess it up, God is there in ultimate control to see us all right. It's odd too, that for a YECist, he seems to have forgotten about God's curse and the degeneration it introduced into the world...

Yecs are anti Sauron.

 

[AV1611VET]

These guys really scare me with their talk of man being God's supreme creation and 'caretaker' of the world.

Ya -- we sure don't want man in control, do we?

 

[Mike Elphick]

Ya -- we sure don't want man in control, do we?

I think you mean out of control.