I believe global warming has been responsible for more dollars than sense. Or more accurately, they have been more irresponsible. If I believe in the Bible and the literal account of Creation, I am labeled as denying science ...but I will not deny God, to satisfy any populous.
Facts or manipulating the imagination? Scientific method includes observing, hypothesizing, and experimenting. Manipulation comes in when we do not observe very much, but suggest many explanations.
You want facts, here they are? The period from A.D. 900 to A.D. 1100, scientists refer to as "Medieval Climate Optimum". During this time, the Vikings established farms and colonies in Greenland. However, in the 1300's, the global temperature began to drop ...more significantly affecting areas nearer the poles, and the Vikings moved southward into Canada. About 500 years later, the temperature shifted to a gradual warming. This was a slight variation within the next hundred years. Since around the 1940s, temperatures leveled off a bit, and actually dropped slightly. So, how does this translate into global warming?
And yes, I believe that global warming very much opposes the genuineness of the Bible. These fear and panic generated dollars also include a very condescending attitude towards those who say God is going to create a new earth. And there is no marriage between Creation and evolution, as some would like to promote. But, we would benefit from a coming together of our fears and our aspirations. We all have fears, but we all have hopes and dreams too.
Many of us dream ...and I've heard testimony of wonderfully genuine accounts. But, I am also aware that dreams can be generated by personal wishes.
Even more difficult to discern at times is searching for God's direction and guidance for our personal details in life. God does bring great detail to our lives ...and He did that with Creation, and continues to build a relationship with us. Yet, mixed with those wonderful moments of intimacy, are also periods of growth, often difficult to accept.
I recently read Ben Carson's book, America the Beautiful, and how he had a dream, without a doubt which came from God, that genuinely changed his life. Other people have had dreams or visions ...hopes of what they could see as achievable goals. Our middle son lost his baseball glove. He had worked hard to break it in, and he was able to play well with that glove. I had several dreams about seeing the glove on the ground beneath a bush. I had searched long and hard trying to help him find his glove ---and that bush I'd hoped to find it beneath ---but, the glove was not found. I think my dreams were based much on wishful thinking ...of what I wanted. I don't believe the lack of success was because we gave up looking ...I believe God could have not only given me the vision of the bush, but allowed me to stumble upon it.
I believe a person's character is more defined by how we handle those moments when we wish something, but God doesn't choose to allow it to happen. Some people seem to act like they can no longer feel motivated in life unless they feel God loves them enough to give them what they want. There is little growth with this kind of self-centered thinking. But, other times we unselfishly ask for something for someone else ...and that doesn't happen either. We need to know foremost that what God promises will come to pass ...and our belief in that helps define our faith, rooted in gratefulness and perseverance.
Yes, we have fears ...but hope springs eternal when we can look beyond misconceptions, to the truths which overcome those fears.
We need to cling to that which we do know, what God promises, ...and have faith that He will work out the details, that often seem to bother us so much.
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