Climate Change for Christians

 I have used variations of the argument posited in the article by Dean Davis at the American Thinker entitled Climate Change for Christians. Namely, that the fate of the earth is in God's hands, and we can not destroy it. We simply do not have the power to do so, and believing we do is a gross display of arrogance. But I will let Dean tell it, because he does it so much better.

Presently, a naturalistic worldview dominates public policy on climate change, both in Washington and in many blue states. Modern naturalism posits that the universe evolved through random physical processes. This hypothesis entails that our Earth is extremely fragile and that man, often viewed as a clumsy Johnny-come-lately, could completely destroy it if he's not careful. Therefore, an observed trend toward global warming, possibly caused by us humans, generates existential alarm in naturalistic scientists and the people who listen to them.

The biblical worldview (BWV) posits that God is the creator, sustainer, and ruler of all things, including the weather. It also posits that man is his vice-regent on Earth, specially appointed to develop and care for the home he has given us. Because of man's fall into sin, God has temporarily burdened his originally perfect creation with various natural evils such as extremes of heat and cold, drought, storm, earthquake, etc. Ultimately, these "severe mercies" are wake-up calls designed to discourage nature-worship and bring the wanderers home.

Dean also has a word or two for those who worship at the alter of Gaia. The God of Creation created everything that is, and everything that is not. There is no Gaia. So called "Mother Nature" is a figure of speech, not a real thing. And in God's world you are more valuable than anything else he has created.  He will not let us destroy the earth, even if we had the power to do so.

Ponder that.