{"id":4986,"date":"2009-05-18T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/05\/science-and-global-warming-rjs.html"},"modified":"2009-05-18T08:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T08:00:35","slug":"science-and-global-warming-rjs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/05\/science-and-global-warming-rjs.html","title":{"rendered":"Science, Faith, and Global Warming (RJS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_0119 ds.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/100_0119%20ds.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" width=\"324\" height=\"346\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Scot linked to an article earlier this year: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/03\/09\/obama.science\/index.html\">Obama moves to separate politics and science<\/a>.&nbsp; When Scot brought this up (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/03\/stem-cell-research-what-do-you.html\">see here<\/a>) he emphasized and directed conversation toward the issue of stem cell research &#8211; clearly an important issue and one well worth discussion.&nbsp; The CNN article, and the changes introduced by the Obama administration, encompass more than just this however.&nbsp; Obama has also moved to&nbsp; strengthen funding for basic science research, to encourage energy and green research, and to support efforts aimed at environmental reform.&nbsp; This is a topic that is also worth discussion &#8211; although perhaps it will not be quite so heated. It also ties in nicely with the post on Romans 8, Scot&#8217;s posts on eschatology, Wright&#8217;s view of our hope &#8211; and perhaps even Scot&#8217;s view of the Kingdom Gospel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Environmental issues provide an example where the Christian track record is not stellar &#8211; in fact, I would say abysmal.&nbsp; Two factors (greed and faith) have led to a callous disregard for the environment and the care of the earth at times (<i>note added: this is not a Christian problem as much as a human problem, however there are specific &#8220;Christian&#8221; rationalizations for this disregard<\/i>).&nbsp; Certainly many Christians have claimed that, if we are, after all, living in the end times, if Armageddon is coming and the world will end in a firestorm, why worry about pollution, renewable energy, global warming, or acid rain? But if the new creation is not a destruction of the world and the space-time universe &#8211; but a healing and a restoration &#8211; everything is changed.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>What should be the Christian response to the challenges of pollution, global warming, and renewable energy?<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>And more contentiously &#8211; what should the Obama administration be doing about it?&nbsp; Laws and regulations to promote green practice? Funding for basic research? Incentives for private research and development?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you wish to contact me directly you may do so at rjs4mail [at] att.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scot linked to an article earlier this year: Obama moves to separate politics and science.&nbsp; When Scot brought this up (see here) he emphasized and directed conversation toward the issue of stem cell research &#8211; clearly an important issue and one well worth discussion.&nbsp; The CNN article, and the changes introduced by the Obama administration,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-issues","category-science-and-faith"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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