Very religious people feel the world is only 6,000 years old. They don't believe in evolution, primarily because it's based on facts about the world being much older. You think it could be the same issue with global warming?
2007-10-15 09:01:23 · 16 answers · asked by Tim 6 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
One of the interesting facts learned in Anthropology is that every society has developed a religion with the possible exception of some modern ones and that is arguable. There seems to be something innate in the human psyche that favors a religious fervor. It is kind of strange, but some of the most ardent atheists, are often the most religious in their thinking in that they are sure that they are right and are intolerant of other lines of reasoning. I believe that much of the global warming frenzy develops from this religiosity in the modern left.
2007-10-15 10:52:34 · answer #1 · answered by JimZ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What country are you from? I don't know any religious people that believe the world is 6000 yrs old. What strange religion is that?
Most of my family, friends, and co-workers are Christians and believe in global warming. Some believe it is due to mans pollution. Some do not. Some believe it is some pollution and some natural.
My point is I don't believe religion has much to do with the numbers of people believing one way or the other. At least here in the mid west US.
2007-10-15 09:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by GABY 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very religious people more than likely believe the world will NOT be destroyed by another flood, because that's what is promised in the bible.
But they could just look only a thousand years ago and find that it was warmer, and must have been normal, and only when things cooled off did it get bad for civilization. That's why they call it the dark ages or the little ice age.
http://www.capca-carolinas.org/Fall%202006%20Presentations/Roy%20W.%20Spencer.pdf
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Griz, it is much more entertaining if you would answer by equating the warming over the last 6000 years, to an equivalent amount of atomic bombs going off.
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2007-10-15 09:20:36 · answer #3 · answered by Tomcat 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
worldwide Warming isn't debatable. the reason of the warming is. The earth has warmed and cooled many situations for the time of its multi-billion 3 hundred and sixty 5 days life, none of that have been brought about or tormented by ability of people. To take a sampling of below one hundred years and extrapolate the information into chicken Little's theory that "The sky is falling" is stupidity. definite, I reported that Al "Ozone" Gore is stupid! This "theory" is all approximately money and administration. individuals that believe in any different case are lemmings.
2016-12-29 11:43:07 · answer #4 · answered by divalerio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it is the data from over 6000 years ago that tells us religious people, and others, that the global warming crisis is a crock. The archaeological record is very clear. Global warming and cooling has happened over and over in the history of the planet. And it never was, nor is it now, caused by human activity.
2007-10-15 11:54:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Good question I hear creationalism is scarily popular in the states, I wish to remain as blissfully ignorant of that as is possible! You could sneak a question into 'religion and spirituality' for some idea.
Graham; dinosaurs are related to birds, at least the fossil records suggest that. If not evolution then what mechanism did you have in mind?
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2007-10-15 10:38:41 · answer #6 · answered by John Sol 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is nonesense and I am not religious but global warming is measurable scientific fact about what is happening now so it has nothing to do with peoples beliefs about what happened over 6,000 years ago.
By the way, my disbelief is not about the world being much older than 6,000 years, which it undoubtedly is. But you can go back a million years and still not link dinoraurs to mamals of today. They are only as similar as a basic prototype may be similar to a production model but there are no evolutionary steps between, for example, flying dinosaurs and birds or vegetarian dinosaurs and cows.
Show me a step between a dinosaur and a cow if you can.
2007-10-15 09:10:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
This chart, with 600 Million years of data, clearly show that the earth is closer to the lowest average temperature of its history than the highest.
It is just as accurate as any used by the GWAs which can fit on the last quarter inch or so of this one.
Geologists are such religious fanatics. I can't stand those people.
2007-10-15 15:08:19 · answer #8 · answered by Victor S 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Only a few "skeptics" are motivated by that.
Salomon II says one thing I agree with. Science and religion need not be opposed. Science has little to say about how the Big Bang started. If someone wants to believe a Creator did it, they can accept all of modern science and religion. The term is "old Earth creationists".
Here's a scientist who's done exactly that.
http://www.reasons.org/
2007-10-15 11:37:56 · answer #9 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I suppose that is possible. Seriously thinking the world is only a few thousand years old is one small step from thinking the Sun orbits the Earth it seems to me.
2007-10-15 10:13:59 · answer #10 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋