Something weird about conservative christians?

Question

They don't believe in global warming claiming that Earth has seen climate changes for millions of years so why should we worry about it now?
But yet, they also believe in the story of Creation (or whatever the Adam and Eve fairy tale is called) which determines that Earth has only been around for 6000 years...
What gives?

maybe it's the ones that I meet, but yes the ones that usually deny the existence of Global warming are fundamentalist Christians.

Answer 1

I know... I ran into this person who vehemently denied global warming, linked me to several (biased and ridiculous propoganda sites) and wouldn't budge no matter how many time I demonstrated to them that they were full of it.

Answer 2

To suggest that all Christians believe one thing or another is more the product of bias than of any critical analysis or any separation of issues. Global warming and the age of the earth are two separate issues. I have no idea how old the earth is and I can say even the top scientists would disagree within tens and hundreds of millions of years. I think global warming is an issue but simultaneously wonder what happened to the popular theory of the ice age returning that was being touted by science twenty years ago. A small part of me wonders if part of the global warming is part of the ice age returning. I am not making a statement merely wondering. It seems reasonable to me that before there is a return of glaciers that there would be a huge melt off then freeze over. Just a thought.

Answer 3

As a conservative Christian I do believe that the earth is much younger and as for global warming it has not been going on for million of years but it has been going on as long as the earth has been around. The sun has seasons and that affects the earth. Just so you know some 30 years ago scientists came up with an idea to put soot on the polar ice caps because the earth had been cooling off so much that they were afraid that the cool down would decrease the global harvests.

Answer 4

First of all, according to Genesis chapter 1 God Created the Earth in 6 days. You can read at least one chapter of the Bible, so I wont write it up for you.
Sorry you think Adam and Eve is a fairy tale. I believe they were the first humans EVER and that GOD CREATED THEM about 6000 years ago.
In fact, trying to believe that we came from some big bang of slime soup is ABSOLUTELY REDICULOUS!!!!!!! EVOLUTION and MILLIONS OF YEARS have NEVER nor NEVER WILL BE PROVEN!!!!!!! EVOLUTION IS AN ATHIEST RELIGION!!!!!!!
You must not have much to look forward to in your life if you think that someday you will just turn into dirt. No wonder there is so much suicide. When people think that they came from slime... then they have no reason to feel worthy of anything.
As far as global warming....... I DO BELIEVE in global warming. Read 2 Peter 3:7

Answer 5

Hmmmmmmmm. I consider myself a Christian and a conservative. I don't think there's much to global warming. I also don't believe the earth is millions of years old. I do believe the Creation story.

However, there are Christians out there who believe God used evolution to create the world. If they only knew their Bibles they would realize the two beliefs don't coincide. Why they do that, I have no idea.

Answer 6

Not all Conservative Christians think exactly the same. I believe in the possibility of Global warming. I do believe in the Adam and Eve Creation story, but we don't know for sure how much of a time period God was talking about when He talked about the days. His timing is different from our timing. Perhaps one day was thousands of years.

Answer 7

Never heard of this, how do you know what they all think?
Global warming is a fact, Man is destroying the planet that is a fact also. The information you have is obviously flawed,maybe you should educate yourself a little more so you will actually know what you are talking about. You answered a question I asked before and assumed that is how I think, WRONG, I asked Who thinks, didn't say I thought that way.

Answer 8

How about we look at the fact that we only have a little more of a century of recordable temperature data. Plot that data over the course of a graph of 150 years and the change is almost insignificant.

If you have a way of telling me what the average temperature was on a yearly basis over the last 1000 years, please explain how those numbers were calculated.

Outside of that, you are basing your assumptions on 150 years, which on the scale ya'll talk about (6.6 billion years), is not even worth talking about. The proof that we are causing global warming is still inconclusive.

Answer 9

I doubt that any one person would give both opinions. It is true that the earth's temperature has been changing throughout its history (remember the Ice Ages?), and it is increasing now. It is also true that atmospheric CO2 levels have increased, by roughly the amount of human production of the stuff. It is not conclusively established that the phenomena are related, although there is widespread opinion that they are. The business about the earth being only 6000 years old is, of course, nonsense.

Answer 10

I am a Conservative Christian and I believe that there is global warming and I also believe that the earth is old. www.reasons.org

Answer 11

Conservative Christians only care about holding on to power as if their key figures have nothing to do with the inferno they created, not only in Iraq but all around the world. There's some cruel logic though in all that: if this world was created out of nothing and overnight then you don't have any responsibility to take care of it.