Christian distrust of science?

Question

is it just coincidence that most people who don't believe in evolution also don't believe in global warming? I haven't seen statistics on this, it's just my own anecdotal observation. Has anyone else noticed?

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Answer 1

Lets hope that percentage of people is low or we will all die. Have a nice day!

Answer 2

Many Christians distrust certain areas of science when theory is explained as "accepted" scientific "fact"...not solid fact which are different in most peoples minds or not well understood. No one has ever directly observed biological evolution taking place millions of years ago as observational science so in some people's minds, it's an unproven guess or conjecture. Same thing with geology or astronomy. Direct observation trumps everything. Indirect observation has it's place in forming a scientific theory with the caveat that it is sometimes imprecise and incomplete. Even though a great many scientific fields may point to a certain view of world and universal history, man's reason, logic and understanding have been flawed or even misleading in the past and may also be suspect today from an incomplete knowledge of various critical factors.
Malaria was once thought, by scientists, to be caused by "bad air" hence the term "mal=bad aria=air" from Italian scholars. The actual city of Troy was once scoffed at, by scientists and scholars, as being a myth until Heinrich Schliemann discovered it. Many evolution claims over the years have been found to be hoaxes or lies like the Piltdown Man which even the most respected scientists of the day said was real for over 40 years. Haeckl's drawings of various animal embryo's were found to be fraudulent but remain in some modern biology textbooks as late as 1998. The evolutionary theory of a supposed "vestigial" organ of a human appendix has been recently found to have a very important function of storing beneficial bacteria and "rebooting" the digestive system after a bout of disease causing necessary bacteria to die off in the intestines. A T-Rex was recently unearthed in Montana that had soft tissue and blood cells still in it's thigh bone supposedly after 65 million years of extinction. How is the average citizen or Christian suppose to judge science or scientific method when these problems manifest themselves?
Global warming may be exascerbated by man's involvement in global atmospheric conditions but global weather patterns have a huge number of variables and some of them are beyond our ability to fully understand the intracacies thereof. Historic global weather patterns seem to indicate a weather pattern shift as a normal function of the earth albeit with acceleration of it from man's technological influence.
Certain scientific disciplines should regard themselves with a good deal of humility and reservation without all the facts and acknowledge that they are imperfect in many respects. That should not preclude them from attempting to understand our world better. Man will always have a curious nature and want to figure things out.

Answer 3

Well the Bible leads you to believe that global warming is not a threat so most Christians would be inclined to doubt it.

Genesis 8:22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night shall not cease." This is part of the "everlasting covenant that God made with Noah and his descendants when He placed the rainbow in the clouds. It kind of refutes global warming of any large degree.

Answer 4

Mars has the same warming rate as we do. Does this mean the martians are driving SUVs? I've heard geologists such talk about this issue. Global warming is inevitable the earth will die. Its simply a process that happens and if we as a race expect to survive for billions of years we'll have to find a new planet when ours becomes unbearable.

Answer 5

Global warming is pretty obvious and doesn't require belief. What is not obvious is the reasons for it. People with agendas have made insane correlations without any reasonable causal explanation for decades now.

My favourite episode in the global warming explanation saga is the revelation that it happens on Mars too, which does not have any of the pollution factors that the Earth does. This evidence really does tell us that most of the popular 'explanations' are nothing more than memetic pollution.

Answer 6

I think it's mainly just Western "Christians" ( don't know why they are called that. They sure aren't follows are Christ. ) who are pretending that global warming isn't a problem.
Most other Christians everywhere else have been warning about global warming before I was born. Or at least that's what I know from my own personal experience.

--Buddhist.

Answer 7

Christian distrust of science is just like atheist distrust of God.
Both distrust the truth.

All beliefs are extremely fragile without the backing of God's ever present guidance.

Answer 8

I think that it may be partly true. As a Christian, I am strongly against evolution and its teachings, and I feel that lack of trust here leads to a general disdain for science and "scientific fact/findings," which would include things such as global warming. Scientists lose our trust with one thing and it's not easy to gain it back.

Answer 9

To label science as fairy tale is a dangerous thing to do. Both evolution and global warming have science backing them....they're both valid theories....

Answer 10

the US is the only developed country where there is an active religious/political-based effort to discredit science.

when the average person thinks they know more science than all of the world's scientists something is wrong.

Answer 11

yeah, i dont believe in global warming. In fact, I dont believe in weather. Or change.. every day is the same, and will be the same forever. It helps me sleep at night.

(heh.)