[asa] A Sustainable Future

Friends; I know that almost the entire conversation on this listserve is devoted to the creation-evolution-design debate but let me make a small effort to broaden the discussion to issues that affect our lives today at least as directly.
Here is a link to an essay by Kenneth Smail addressing population issues and the future of civilization that I found worth reading. I think Prof. Smail comes close to hitting the nail squarely on the head. If he is at all correct, how should Christians, and especially Christian scientists respond to this challenge?
>Confronting the inevitable: Population reduction, voluntary and otherwise< by Kenneth Smail
http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=168&Itemid=2#cont

I also recommend to you, if you have not already seen it or even if you have, the video Arithmetic, Population, and Energy (it is in 8 parts available on youtube - link below) on understanding exponential growth by Prof Al Bartlett (prof Emeritus, Physics, U of Colorado) which is also quite relevant for the pressing issues facing civilization addressed by Prof Smail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

Respectfully,
Ken Piers

Ken Piers

"We are by nature creatures of faith, as perhaps all creatures are; we live by counting on things that cannot be proved. As creatures of faith, we must choose either to be religious or superstitious, to believe in things that cannot be proved or to believe in things that can be disproved."
Wendell Berry

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Received on Fri May 16 10:42:29 2008