Well, at least he’s talking the language of science.

If a religious conservative can talk the language of science, then a scientist should be able to talk the language of religious conservative. Not having either qualification, I can only suggest, so….

As for whether God would allow dynamic instability, I don’t see why not. He’s allowed it numerous times before. It seems to me the height of hubris to assume that what God decides would be comfortable to anyone. History and prehistory are rife with evidence that God has allowed dynamic instability many times, resulting in the demise of countless species and cultures, quite independently of human concern.

We’re the instruments of God, not the other way around. It seems to me that people who tout their religious beliefs to support their political and economic agendas should keep that in mind.

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Either Representative Beard is a fool, or he is intentionally trying to mislead his constituents into believing that all is well with our planet. One need not look very far outside his own window to know that humans are causing irreparable damage to our world, and that even if there were a ‘god’, nothing in the past indicates that this ‘god’ gives a hoot about what happen to us. It’s up to humankind to find ways to stop polluting our world.  And the first thing that Americans should be doing is telling our political representation that they must stop polluting our minds with such utter nonsense as has been attributed to Rep. Beard here.  We need to stop electing people like Beard to high office, and seeking their removal by whatever legal means available when they speak about things of great import in such an idiotic fashion. Trying to recall a person from office is not revolutionary. It is a political imperative when that person is working against the good of the state. Throw the bum out.

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I don’t know what makes me more embarrassed for my fellow great apes: those who believe in a god who’d prevent (or instigate) natural disasters, or those who believe in a climate that is stable and unchanging. 

Hello… ?!
Look at what the scientific members of your species have been able to accomplish because at some point in their evolution they were intelligent enough to survive sudden, often violent,  climate change… and that was before they invented the combustion engine. 

There’s plenty of things we do to pollute our environment that are a lot worse than to produce a GHG that’s barely effecting weather patterns.  Nations using this cheap energy are wealthy enough (because of fossil fuels) to regularly survive modern natural disasters, as well as climate change, with a minimum of casualties.

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