Intelligent Design & Climate Change
As I put on my shorts this morning, (it was a balmy seventy-somthing degrees today) my mind once again turned to the topic of global warming. This is one of my areas of interest (see previous posts), and so with the fall being so warm, it seems that many people would at least jokingly attribute the warm fall to climate change. While one cannot deny that the Earth is warmer than it was 200 years ago, there is no proof that the Earth will continue to warm this way. The climate-predicting models are just too complex.
How does this relate to Intelligent Design? Both extreme enviromentalism, that in the vein of Al Gore (as opposed to Theodore Roosevelt), and those who believe in Intelligent Design, choose to ignore proper science and follow their respective doctrines purely on faith. I believe that theory of evolution has the most creedence, and as a Catholic, I agree with the Church that evolution does not perclude Divine involvement.
Both Climate Change and Intelligent Design are doctrines of faith that ignore developing science when it disagrees with their views. It seems to me that pure science would welcome challege to increase understanding.
How does this relate to Intelligent Design? Both extreme enviromentalism, that in the vein of Al Gore (as opposed to Theodore Roosevelt), and those who believe in Intelligent Design, choose to ignore proper science and follow their respective doctrines purely on faith. I believe that theory of evolution has the most creedence, and as a Catholic, I agree with the Church that evolution does not perclude Divine involvement.
Both Climate Change and Intelligent Design are doctrines of faith that ignore developing science when it disagrees with their views. It seems to me that pure science would welcome challege to increase understanding.
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