Posted by
T.P. Beh on Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:43:09 PM
Deception, collusion, intimidation, censorship, ostracism, suppression of evidence in the scientific community? We should all be shocked, shouldn’t we? Not really. The recent release of e-mails from some of the leading climate change scientists is about far more than questionable scientific practice, it reveals a left-wing conspiracy that “naturally” derives from an evolutionary understanding of the world. That people are shocked by the degree of unethical behavior surrounding the “fact” of man-made global warming (MMGW) merely reflects how successful evolutionary science—with a lot of help from the mass media and financing from U.S. taxpayers—has been at creating a false perception of itself in the public mind. Like recent revelations about Tiger Woods, the current climate change controversy merely exposes the endemic corruption that infests most of the scientific community and the “fact” of evolution.
As clearly exposed in Ben Stein’s documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, tactics employed by the MMGW crowd are simply the standard operating procedures of Darwinian science. For those who didn’t see the film, it focused on the absolute intolerance in our academic and scientific communities for anyone, including journalists, who dare to question the so-called “fact” of evolution or even display a willingness to discuss the positive or negative merits of alternative theories like intelligent design (ID), much less creation. Regardless of their credentials or however innocently they committed this “cardinal sin,” those who depart from the evolutionary party line are not only vilified and summarily fired, but their reputations are utterly destroyed, all in the name of science. (If drawing and quartering were still allowed, one guesses it would be too light a punishment for these infidels.) In short, disagree with Darwin and you are done.
Some view the man-made global warming movement is the latest incarnation of communism, but it goes much deeper than that. In fact, its roots can be traced directly to Darwinian evolution or Social Darwinism, the same theory that led to the growth of atheistic humanism, communism and socialism in the 20th century. Much as evolution provided a convenient rationale (i.e., no God, survival of the fittest) for the supremacy of the state, the redistribution of wealth and the creation of a master race with the necessary elimination of inferior “undesirables,” like Jews, the ideology of MMGW is predicated on arrogant, man-centered godlessness. Nor is it an accident that the greatest impetus for the regulation of so-called “greenhouse gases” comes from Europe, the most secularized continent on earth. Unfortunately, much as the scientifically “justified” racism practiced by the Nazis was supported by American scientists under the banner of eugenics (leading to the sterilization of some 50,000 black men), the evolutionary scientific community in the U.S has once again fallen in line and is aggressively promoting the MMGW mantra. And why not? MMGW is after all the “consensus” of their evolutionary comrades across the pond—the same kind of “consensus” that promotes evolution as a fact. Having for decades practiced censorship and the politics of personal destruction against scientists (and others) who disagree with evolution, it is a perfectly natural progression. Having eliminated the need for God, evolutionary science generally operates in a moral vacuum where the highest ethic is only what is good for them.
Among the many MMGW skeptics both within science and without, the Creation Studies Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, takes a different view. CSI executive director Tom DeRosa has written presciently on this subject a number of times. Here are portions of one of his recent newsletters:
Do you ever have a sense that we live in very confused times? Do you see an agenda being pushed that will affect not just you but the whole world? Is this planet in eminent danger of climate change (global warming) caused by man? Are CO2 emissions that we are responsible for to blame for a total worldwide catastrophe causing the glaciers to melt, rising ocean levels and destructive flooding killing millions? Do you feel like you are going to explode as you hear the constant refrains of man-induced carbon dioxide levels, global warming, carbon footprints and taxes going up? Are you concerned about government policies that will needlessly put costly controls on every citizen in the country? Is Christ in the center of this, or do you observe a godless agenda being pushed forth that worships the creation rather than Creator? Do you fear that this agenda will be adopted and feel helpless to stop it? Are we believers just going to lie down and do nothing about it, or do we move forward with the power of Christ, exposing the myth of global warming and the godless agenda that perpetuates it?
…With the myth of global warming produced by man’s carbon dioxide emissions being advanced by powerful forces, many different environmental policies are being considered that will have a devastating economic impact on our country—especially during these difficult financial times—and affect everyone’s pocket book and personal life. An example of this is the “Cap and Trade” bill that Congress is presently debating, which, if passed, will be approved by the president—with horrific consequences.
The force behind this movement is an irrational reverence for nature held by environmental extremists. Many of these misguided souls feel that it is a moral imperative to act, because they have been brainwashed by misinformation promulgated in the mass media, by many in the scientific community and even in our public schools. For these nature worshippers “saving the planet” has become a spiritual quest, as exemplified by former Vice President Al Gore’s book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Throughout this publication Gore reiterates the message that man is separated from his environment and that until this “wall of separation” is crossed, man will not be spiritually fulfilled. Gore leads the Global Warming Movement with a religious fervor that has accumulated great momentum. Like a truck barreling down a mountain road without any brakes, this godless agenda threatens to do much damage….
Environmental hysteria puts our planet in danger by encouraging people to turn not to God for help but to ourselves. It is grounded in evolutionary thinking, which historically has taken God out of the equation and gives nature (and man) all the power. Thus, it blames mankind as the real villains who, by their greed, will ruin the planet with CO2 emissions. We who confess Christ are aware of sin and understand the greed factor; however, knowing the dictates of Scripture should also provide us with a greater sense of perspective and balance. We understand that God created man to responsibly rule over the earth….To destroy this gift through pollution and by putting harmful chemicals into the air certainly is a violation of God’s command, and we have a responsibility to minimize this kind of damage to our world. Nonetheless, the proper hierarchal order in life is God-Man-Earth, not the reverse! Those who have lost sight of God walk in darkness and have no true sense of balance. By eliminating the Almighty from the equation, they put earth first and have become crazed with passionate, illogical urgency—always a dangerous condition. But contrary to what Al Gore proclaims, rather that being separated from the environment, mankind is unfulfilled and imperiled by being separated from God.
I believe that our home—planet earth—is the only place in the universe graced with life, and that our Creator made it with great resilience. When one considers all the conditions that must be met to maintain life, including weather, the logical conclusion is that this planet occupies a uniquely privileged place in the cosmos. The fact that 70% of the earth’s surface is covered with water helps keep our atmosphere stabilized, and is the source of rain and water vapor that creates a protective layer over the earth that keeps the heat in. This vapor canopy acts like a blanket, making the lower atmosphere warmer and the upper atmosphere cooler. It contains other gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, in much smaller quantities but water predominates, making up 70–90% of its composition. And the CO2 it does possess is overwhelmingly produced by natural forces, with only 3% derived from man-made sources. This reality alone shows that man’s contribution to global warming is insignificant.
….Climate forecasting is all about trends with lines going up and down on weather charts with fluctuations always expected. As you may recall, the 1970’s were full of warnings about another impending Ice Age, due to a period of “global cooling” from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. One thousand years ago, during the Medieval Warming Period (1000-1200 AD), the average temperatures were higher than the present. And the 14th century is known as the beginning of the “Little Ice Age,” from which the earth has been gradually emerging since the 1700’s. So, in addition to mankind’s tiny carbon “footprint,” the doomsday argument of global warming also falls short in the light of historic weather patterns.
Roy Spencer, a meteorologist from the University of Alabama and former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA, states, “Based upon experiences with weather forecasting and watching the weather, we view the climate system as being self-regulating.” He speaks out against man-made climate change in his book entitled, Climate Confusion (2008), and tells us to beware of doomsayers: “That the earth’s climate system is proudly the mostly complex physical system we know of should, by itself, humble the climate scientists.” Those who do possess a little humility understand that God created a resilient earth. Certainly man is to care for it, but ultimately God is in charge. He did not create to our planet to be a desolate wasteland but to be inhabited. He is the Lord of the earth and wisely put its self-regulating forces in place….
If the drumbeat of “man-made climate change” leads to laws regulating CO2 emissions it will cost our nation dearly. Stephen Schneider, a climatologist from Stanford University advocates for this type of action by asking emotion-laden questions, such as: “Do we love our children more than we love our grandchildren ...[leaving] them a legacy of biotic impoverishment, species extinction, higher sea levels, fires, droughts, heat waves…Is this worth the risk? It will take trillions of dollars of investment to fix it.”…This kind of baseless fear mongering strives to create urgency and promote climate change policies that will require huge financial sacrifices. This is where the rubber meets the road. There is an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes brokering going on worldwide to “fix” this mythical problem, with wealthy nations like ours expected to finance the effort to “save the planet.”…
A great deal of the misinformation being used to sell the public on the supposed doomsday effect of global warming is little more than “junk science.” Fallacies about man-made climate change saturate the popular media, which in large part has no room for a Creator or Savior, and are arrogantly promoted with one-sided arguments. First, they falsely blame mankind for the problem, and then proclaim that man can resolve it and save the world. Such falsehoods are even finding their way into our public school curricula and national science standards, and we have a responsibility to our culture and our children to point out that “[this] emperor has no clothes.”
Obviously, the missing piece in the MMGW debate is the Creator, a loving God who created this planet for life and wisely put in place self-regulating processes designed to sustain it, until He decides to end it. Indeed, in the book of Romans the Bible states of those like Al Gore, “Professing to be wise, they became fools…who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator….” (Rom. 1:22;25). To read DeRosa’s entire letter, go to www.creationstudies.org. CSI also offers a number of resources on climate change that present the other side of the argument, including a DVD titled, Global Warming: Merging Science and Understanding.
However great the threat to our freedoms MMGW represents, the far greater threat to our basic human rights is evolution itself. In a nation where the vast majority of citizens believe in a Creator, why do billions of our tax dollars every year go to underwrite the ceaseless promotion of the scientific “consensus” of evolution (along with man-made global warming) as a fact in our public school system, in the mass media and by government agencies—with those same tax dollars forbidden from being used to publicly acknowledge any existence of God whatsoever? If you are shocked and angered about the scientific deceptions behind the “fact” of global warming and fear the potential government controls and loss of freedoms Cap and Trade legislation promises to impose, how much more outraged should you be about your tax dollars being used to indoctrinate your children and grandchildren about the “fact” of evolution day in and day out? Beyond that, if the “unalienable rights” we enjoy in this country are predicated on the existence of a Creator as stated in our Constitution, we might also want to ask ourselves how long those rights (freedom of religion, free speech, academic freedom etc.) will endure when our government outlaws any public recognition of that Creator. Merry Christmas, er…that is, Happy Solstice Season to all in our one nation under Darwin!