Todays Cornwall Newsletter (with a surprise ending you wont want to miss!): Fossil Fuels, Enemy or Friend? Divine Design in the Carbon Cycle A Rebuttal to David Jenkins’s “Are Climate Scientists Ignoring God’s Design?” by E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., Christian Post, October 28, 2013 Despite disagreements on some specific questions, I was glad to get acquainted with David Jenkins through his article Click to see our agreements.] Most of his mischaracterizations involve transforming my nuanced positions into all-or-nothing views. … [Click for examples] For instance, having mistakenly said I believe “an infinitely wise designer would not create something so fragile that mankind can mess it up,” he then reasons, “… From the beginning, man’s actions have had a profound impact on the earth, both good and bad. According to the Bible the first instance of human sin, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God, resulted in profound ecological changes.” Yet there is a difference between God’s cursing the ground because of man’s sin of eating the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:17–19) and land’s becoming barren because people strip it of vegetation and its topsoil washes away, or a lake’s becoming fish-free because people dump enough toxic wastes into it to kill them all. In the former case, God supernaturally causes ecological harm in judgment of human moral failure that had no physical link to the harm. In the latter case, a physical link exists. … [Click for more corrections of misrepresentations.] These … points lead to the real issue on which Jenkins and I disagree about anthropogenic global warming: ... [Click to read the rest--and note, the newsletter contains only excerpts from the full article, so click on through to Christian Post to read it all. Theres a surprise ending that you wont want to miss!]
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:38:26 +0000
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