What do you think of the Evangelicals urging action on global warming?
97874
Hasty and uninformed.  Usually global warming is used as a political tool for lobbyists.  There is no evidence that global warming exists.  It is just a theory based on data.  Another alternative theory is that the Earth heats and cools in cycles. \n\nPersonally, regardless of which theory you believe, I still think that pollution ought to be diminished.  It seems largely responsible as a carcinogen - causing cancer.  But then again, thats just my theory based on the apparent data.
1173864
No. There are plenty of other theories. The EPA can't and hasn't proven any of their theories. Even a Harvard scientist said that we may just be recovering from a mini Ice Age that caused famine for 400 years (Ireland's potato famine). Who am I supposed to believe? I am not scared, although I do believe it is a good time to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Who knows what the cause of "global warming" is? Oh well. Let's just reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There's nothing harmful in that.
580211
its God, but God entrusted to us this world, we are His stewards, managing His creatures. But sad to say that we are destroying our mother earth, and so we are reaping of what we have done to our nature and some people still blaming God for doing it so...we should make a way to preserve and conserve our nature for the next generation.
1140995
No, they won't be outraged.  Somehow it will be the fault of "neo-cons" who are Gore bashing and don't have any proof that he is wrong.  It's easy to mislead people with fear.  Especially when you say things like "the polar ice caps are melting more rapidly than ever and will lose significant portions of land mass in the next ten years!"  Okay, what does that mean?  How much is it losing relative to its mass?  Where are your numbers?  Oh, I forgot, numbers don't SUPPORT their arguments.  Why must we suffer the ignorance of fools?
1150778
It's not exactly a moral issue.  I don't think God's punishing us for our sins or something.  If the scientists are correct, and we assume that global warming is occurring, *and* it is due to pollution, etc., then I think it's our duty to protect the environment to help decrease the amount of toxins we constantly spew into the air and water.
490604
That I absolutely have to disagree with. There are many scientists, including particle physicists, who believe in God. The web site below has articles by a number of them.\n\nMany of them argue against the evangelical 6000-year-old earth proposition. They maintain that the Evangelicals are driving people away from Christianity by insisting that people ignore the evidence of their own eyes.
819923
Careful calculations from the MIT Physics and Climatological Research Center in MASS. state unequivocally it would be "immeasurable" and could very well bring on the next Ice Age...the obliteration again of all life as we know it on this planet.\n\nOn the other hand it would be great to see that pathetic, Far Left Wing ACLU Adoring Hyper-Liberal along with Al Franken and of course the Wicked Witch of the West Nancy Pelosi the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Rights Values Champion  disintergrated!
1002784
yup! i agree with u....... \nthe  remedy is to atleast plant more trees and try not to mess up with mother nature in the name of developments.... \ndevelopments are good......... but who will be there to utilise it? \n\nwe are doing lot of bad than good to mother earth.... we need to start now.........
667265
Well... I think the gradual illumination has been too slow; that quote must have 150 years, and look at "men´s minds" of today. Not enough progress. But it is true what he says about direct arguments not having much of an effect on the public, and oftentimes when they do the effect is negative.\n\nSee how many fundies and bible thumpers of today talk about science with arrogance and despise; science is practically a dirty word for them. However, they don't do without their appliances, TVs, computers, cars, jet planes, vitamins, antibiotics, vaccines, etc. \nAs the saying goes in my language "they spit on the plate from where they eat".\n\nIt's a shame they act irresponsibly and childishly like that. If theywere a bit coherent they'd go live in caves, wrapped in animal skins, and worship their gods as much as they wanted - away from us!
927146
Last week's Newsweek had a wonderful article about Evangelical Christians' impact on laws and government, and developments of the Evangelical movement.\n\nI do believe that the fundamentalist Christian viewpoint is influencing policy a little too closely these days.  I believe firmly in the seperation of church and state, which is a founding principle of this country, despite what some folks will claim.  However, I don't necessarily think that mixing religion and politics is always a bad thing, particularly if it happens on an individual level.  By this I mean, for instance, a lawmaker who, because of his/her religious upbringing, values service to the poor.  Because he/she has this ethical value of helping the poor, he/she sets up a program in his/her district that offers skills training and assistance with job hunting to people on welfare.  \n\nHowever, when the mixing of religion and politics becomes more a matter of attempting to legislate a particular moral code or prohibiting certain things simply because this is part of this religion, then there is a problem.  I think we are seeing this in several areas.  The first is the constant attack on a woman's right to choose, which since Roe v. Wade is being steadily chipped away by legislation such as parental consent laws and the ban on third trimester abortions.  Another is the push and increase in funding to abstinence-only sex ed. programs in schools, which has been shown to be ineffective.  Speaking of abstinence-only, this also applies to AIDS relief funding.  The government requires AIDS-relief programs to spend a certain amount of money on promoting abstinence as a preventative measure, which has caused difficulties in many of these programs to effectively provide adequate preventative care.  There is a continuous push to teach "intelligent design," a theory with no backing from scientists (outside of a handful of Christian scientists), alongside the well-established evolutionary theory in public school science classrooms.  Less succesful has been efforts to re-establish official school prayer, although this issue pops up periodically (even though no-one is stopping students from praying privately in school, or establishing after-school prayer groups).  Funding has been effectively curtailed for stem-cell research, which has the potential to provide cures for several life-threatening illnesses, based on the fudnamentalist belief that human life begins at conception.  And of course, the current debate over gay rights and equal marriage.\n\nThere are also the self-stated goals of several Christian groups, to promote Christian values and the Christian way of life in government.  That doesn't sound so bad, if we're talking about promoting the values of "Love thy neighbor," "Turn thy cheek," "Blessed are the peace-keepers" and "Whatsoever you do onto the least of these, so to you do unto me."  However, when we start talking about things like, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," I get very nervous.\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nI got your e-mail, the answer is yes.  I couldn't reply to the e-mail because your e-mail address hasn't been confirmed yet.
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I grew up in a conservative home, although I didn't know it at the time. Politics were not the dinner table topic. In may teens, I started to become more liberal in my view of the world. By my twenties,I was wild, and free, and I was all but full blow liberal by this time.With the birth of my first daughter, that all started to change.I guess I started to become my parents. Now I'm back to being a conservative. Some of my liberal views remain, some what. Like, while I don't think Global warming is caused by human consumption, I also don't think we should go knocking down every tree because we can.I live in Florida, Trust Me I know what progress can do to a pristine environment.\n\nIn short. You are product of your environment.If it changes your out look will too.\n\nHappy birthday to me I'll be 40 in 3 days.
444694
Read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. From my various reading I have learned that the earth was warmer in 1300 A.D. long before cars and it was one of the most prosperous times in history. This was before the Black Plague, of course. More land was arable and human and animal populations were flourishing. It is really impossible to tell as the Earth is in the middle of a natural warming period right now. The tree huggers will never tell you about the glaciers in Iceland that are getting bigger and the parts of Antarctica where the ice sheet is getting thicker. I am a liberal, I am for nurturing the environment. I believe common sense dictates that vehicle emissions are bad for the earth in making our air more noxious, but to answer your specific question, nobody knows because there are too many factors.
240818
I am very concerned with the rash of natural disasters that are happening and can only really attribute them to global warming. Our planet has the ability to "rebuild" the ozone, but not quickly enough at the rate we are depleting it. I think as Americans and as a consumer nation, we need to get on the clue train about how much we are harming our world by car emmisions and we need to switch to a clean alternative. It's possible, but we fear change.
888697
Talk about a question with an axe to grind.  Why evangelicals only at the AFA?  What answer are you looking for?  \n\nHere, I'll give you the answer you want to hear: They're hanging they're heads in shame, admitted the error in their ways, and have embraced atheism.\n\n:)
767596
Not all of us evangelicals are in the GOP's pocket. I switched my registration to the Democrats because of the GOP's disdain for Jesus' message of taking care of the poor, the hungry and the sick. It's impossible NOT to mix faith and politics, because if we don't vote our convictions, doesn't that make us hypocrites?\n\nI'm an evangelical, pro-life Democrat and proud of it. I don't like the extreme positions of either party's leadership, but I hope that a lot of others like me can get together and annoy the leadership enough that they'll change.\n\nCheck out the blog entry I just posted about Ted Haggard.
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They have no logic or rational thought on this subject.\n\nNot one reasonable response with actual hard evidence.  Why? Because there is none.  \n\nJust too stubborn to admit they're wrong.  Just like fearless leader I guess...\n\nBTW scorbore's links above are all bogus (except one) he posts them to every global warming question.  Here's the definitive link;\n\nhttp://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686\n\nEDIT; Hey Scorbore dates don't mean anything.  Do you even know the scientific standard of publication by peer review?  Only one of your links was a peer reviewed publication.  All 928 of mine were.  So, which do you believe your 1 or my 928 :)
976302
1.  Yes, temperatures actually have been rising - in certain places.  2.  No, it isn't too early to make predictions, as long as they are based on sound, unbiased scientific findings.  3. I believe that the warming is being driven by both people and natural causes.  We can do something about the former, but not the latter.  To what degree (no pun intended) each one is a factor is still up in the air, I think.  4.  Yes, it certainly could benefit some regions of the earth, but it would damage many populated regions tremendously.  That's why we need to try to slow down the human contribution a.s.a.p.