zack1’s Recent Comments

• Click here to view comment in original post

  Is it that big a difference?

  Though I agree that what Allen said is pretty stupid, I don't know that the differences are that big.

  Both are using their religious beliefs to justify action (or inaction) in regards to our effects on climate.On Today: Chris Allen posted 1 year, 10 months ago 19 Responses

• Click here to view comment in original post

  Here's the next kook you need to go after

  Mr. Dressler,

  I will assume that you will take Sir John Houghton (of IPCC fame) to the cleaners next, yes?

  Said Sir John:

  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/april/16.77.html ...

  "But we should also be concerned about the rest of creation. We were put in the Garden in Genesis 2 to care for creation and to look after it. That was the mandate God gave to the first humans. We need to look at the integrity, the stability, and the continuation of the rest of creation very seriously."
  -----------------------------------------------

  http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/cis/houghton/lecture4.htm ...

  "Christians and other religious people believe that we've been put on the earth to look after it. Creation is not just important to us, we believe also it is important to God and that the rest of creation has an importance of its own: for these reasons we should be good gardeners. But in many ways we are not being good gardeners."
  ------------------------------------------------

  http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/houghton.htm

  "There is a Christian imperative for this: to care for the earth (meaning to serve, and not to lord it over the earth) is spelled out in Genesis. Jesus' view is that we should be servants both to the earth and to our fellow humans. But we have not been looking after the earth. This lack of will is a spiritual problem as described by St Paul ('I know what I want to do but I don't do it...). Even a recent meeting of (not all Christian) people about climate change on the island of Patmos declared that not to care for the earth is a SIN."On Today: Chris Allen posted 1 year, 10 months ago 19 Responses