Pew: Most Americans who have faced extreme weather see a link to climate change – Republicans included
“In both parties, majorities of those who have experienced one of the forms of extreme weather asked about in the survey say climate change contributed to the event. But Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say climate change contributed a lot.” - Pew
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[dgszweda]If I don’t believe that humans can come back to life after death, why believe in the Resurrection?
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ and other resurrections in the Bible are specific miracles that violate normal physical realities. On the other hand, the logic and lab procedures of radiochemistry are the same as the logic and lab procedures of biochemistry. You are picking and choosing what data to believe. I am not.
I’ve been through a number of hurricanes in Texas, as recently as last year. When he was two years old, my dad’s house was lifted off its foundation, with them in it, in the 1932 hurricane. My grandparents & great grandparents went through the 1900 hurricane. Yet I believe man-caused global warming has little effect on our weather. We’ve had hurricanes long before fossil fuels. And hurricanes seem to go in cycles.
I remember being taught Global Cooling in grade school.
I’m for reasonable environmental laws, but against so much of the environmental hype we see today.
http://gulfcoastpastor.blogspot.com/2015/01/why-so-many-reject-man-made…
David R. Brumbelow
[Mark_Smith]The Resurrection of Jesus Christ and other resurrections in the Bible are specific miracles that violate normal physical realities. On the other hand, the logic and lab procedures of radiochemistry are the same as the logic and lab procedures of biochemistry. You are picking and choosing what data to believe. I am not.
The creation of the universe out of nothing is a specific miracle that violates normal physical reality. Life and death will come to all. Except for Christ. So I am picking and choosing what data to believe.
[dgszweda]The creation of the universe out of nothing is a specific miracle that violates normal physical reality. Life and death will come to all. Except for Christ. So I am picking and choosing what data to believe.
And if you view creation that way it has a SIGNIFICANT consequence that I have outlined several times at SI and everyone else rejects. If creation is a miracle then there is no way to measure distance or age. All stars are young. None have died except those that were made dead (??) or near death (??). I don’t even know what a star is in a young universe let alone a galaxy, black hole, neutron star, or a white dwarf!
[Mark_Smith]And if you view creation that way it has a SIGNIFICANT consequence that I have outlined several times at SI and everyone else rejects. If creation is a miracle then there is no way to measure distance or age.
I can believe something is a miracle and yet still leverage physics as it operates today. I was a physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for a time, and had no problem working through this. Yes the universe appears very old, and we can create models around that, that drives how we can calculate things. I am fine with that. I have used them. I was working at Fermilab during the time where our director (Leon Lederman) was writing/publishing “The God Particle”. So I was in the thick of it.
I can use today’s physics which assumes an old age universe and a Big Bang, while at the same time, holding to a religious faith rooted in Hebrews 11, “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” and that this faith is “the conviction of things not seen”. I have no problem resting in my faith, which is rooted in something that defies what we see around us. My entire faith as a Christian is rooted in a belief that defies much of what we see around us.
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