Re: [asa] Continued Manipulation of the IPCC Reports

Rich,

I have to say that there's very little here (affirmations/denials 1-6
and specific actions 1-6) that I disagree with. In fact, I think if
you take out the rejection of evolution in the specific actions, at
first glance, I don't think there's anything here I disagree with.

Affirmations/denials 7-19 and the rest of the document, of course,
are a different matter. It continually amazes me that there can be so
much agreement on the foundations and so much divergence elsewhere.

TG

On Apr 9, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Rich Blinne wrote:

> On 4/9/07, Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> Can anyone explain to me why ARN and Uncommon Descent seem to be so
> negative to global warming?
>
> Does one have to be anti-environment to be ID?
>
> This is a matter of very serious concern when we consider the stuff
> peddled by Beisner et al
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> I honestly don't know. It is not a necessary connection as many
> evangelical environmentalists are also ID or YEC. As for Beisner
> himself, he's an economist. He was also involved with this:
>
> http://www.reformation.net/COR/cordocs/sci.pdf
>
> Here you can see the philosophical foundation that ties anti-
> environmentalism to YEC.
>
> 1. We affirm that Christians must obey a Biblically centered world
> and life view in their
>
> understanding, development, and application of science and
> technology (Colossians 2:3).
>
> We deny that the understanding and application of science and
> technology are morally neutral and thus unaffected by one's world
> and life view (Genesis 6:5; 1 Timothy 6:20-21).
>
> 2. We affirm that there is a single truth, God's truth, revealed
> both in His written revelation, the
>
> Bible, and in nature, His created universe (Psalm 19:1-11).
>
> We deny that there are any real conflicts or contradictions between
> God's Word—the Bible—and
>
> the truths revealed in nature (John 3:12).
>
> 3. We affirm that God has empowered and commanded man to study, to
> understand, and to exercise
>
> dominion over His creation (Genesis 1:28; Titus 1:7).
>
> We deny that there is anything inherently evil in the nature of the
> physical universe or in science and
>
> technology (Genesis 1:31).
>
> 4. We affirm that man is a steward of all of God's creation and as
> such is responsible to Him for both
>
> the preservation and the productive use of all the world's
> resources to the benefit of man and the
>
> glory of God (Genesis 1:28).
>
> We deny that pollution and mismanagement of resources are necessary
> results of man's attempt to
>
> obey God's command to subdue the earth and rule over it (Revelation
> 11:18).
>
> 5. We affirm that Jesus Christ alone is the Savior of the world
> (John 14:6).
>
> We deny that we can save ourselves through science or technology or
> through any other human
>
> endeavor (Acts 4:12; Titus 3:5; 2 Peter 3:10).
>
> 6. We affirm that God is transcendent beyond, immanent in, and
> sustaining of, His creation
>
> (Colossians 1:15-17; Hebrews 1:3).
>
> We deny that God is in any way synonymous with nature, and that
> nature is self-sustaining
>
> (Hebrews 11:3; Psalm 33:6).
>
>
> -------------------------------
>
>
>
> To these ends, we commit ourselves to:
>
> 1. influencing those in the fields of science and technology to
> consider seriously the claims of Scripture for their own good and
> success;
>
>
> 2. mounting a specific effort within public education to conform
> the science curriculum to truth
>
> (Scripture) and to reject humanism, evolution, and atheism in science;
>
> 3. mounting a similar effort among Evangelical day schools and
> colleges in an effort to exorcise from their science
>
> curriculae overt and subtle humanistic, evolutionary, and atheistic
> thought forms and presuppositions;
>
> 4. conducting our professional activities, including research,
> publication, and public addresses,
>
> consistently with and supportive of the Word of God;
>
> 5. taking advantage of all opportunities to present the Christian
> world view to our colleagues in both
>
> Christian and secular settings;
>
> 6. offering training seminars for science teachers in which they
> may be updated and retrained, if
>
> necessary, in a more consistently Biblical and scientific world
> view of origins, and offering these
>
> seminars for graduate and undergraduate credit.
>
>
>

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