Francis Schaeffer and the Worldwide Climate Disaster

Francis Schaeffer wrote Pollution and the Death of Man which came out in 1970. 

Tim Challies gives a fair assessment:

 

Schaeffer acknowledges from the beginning of this book what our society’s secular humanists cannot - that mankind has been called by God to exercise dominion over the earth. But like everything else in this world, man’s ability to exercise such dominion has been affected by the Fall. No longer do we tend the world always in love, but instead we ravage and pillage it. Though we may not believe in all of the dire claims being made about the world today, we must at least acknowledge that we have not cared for the world as God has called us to.

https://www.challies.com/book-reviews/book-review-pollution-and-the-death-of-man/

 

Those crying "Earth Too Hot‼" do not arrive at that conclusion from a Christian Worldview (Gen. 8:22):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_day5-agt-globalwarming-activity-7343309844658999296-ijBv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

The  Eco-Apocalyptic predictions of "Mother Earth" activists have been wrong for over half a century:

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

 

As Schaeffer pointed out, "... many thinking men see the ecological threat as greater than that of nuclear warfare."[1]

Social commentators Richard Means & Lynn White have proposed Pantheism, Zen Buddhism and the "All is 1" philosophy as a solution to the Ecological Crisis.[2]  Will Red China go "Zen" and stop being @ the Top ↑ of the dam creator list?

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=28392#

 

Not only are darter snakes mad, huge dams often have a negative effect on Indigenous Communities.  Aldous Huxley (Island) said, "Elementary ecology leads straight to elementary Buddhism."[3] 

 

We are Stewards of Creation and should treat our brother Critters with respect:

 

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,

    the world, and all who live in it;

for he founded it on the seas

    and established it on the waters. (Ps. 24:1,2)

 

The righteous care for the needs of their animals,

    but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel. ...

The lazy do not roast any game,

    but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt. (Pr. 12:10,27)

 On the one hand, only Man is made in the Image of God (Imago Dei).  But on the other hand, we are all part of God's Creation: Man, Animal, Plant and Machine (via human invention).  Because of Creation Week, I can truly say along with St. Francis, "Brother Sun, Sister Moon."  According to Schaeffer, we should respect the tree:  

 

When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree.. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made it as a tree. Christians who do not believe in the complete evolutionary scale have reason to respect nature as the total evolutionist never can, because we believe God made these things specifically in their own areas. So if we are going to argue against the evolutionists intellectually, we should show the results of our belief in our attitudes. The Christian is a man who has a reason for dealing with each created thing with a high level of respect.[4]

 

The Eco-Fanatics have no basis for saying, "It's for the Children!"  Without God, Man has no intrinsic value.[5]  Many in that camp completely overlook the fact that God is the Creator and Sustainer of the world:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018NFVWK

Some would say that Saint Francis (d. 1226) is the patron saint of extreme-environmentalists.[6] 

 

** The Canticle of Saint Francis ♫

Most high, all-powerful, all good, Lord

All praise is yours, all glory, all honor

And all blessing.

To you, alone, Most High, do they belong.

No mortal lips are worthy

To pronounce your name.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through all that you have made,

And first my lord Brother Sun,

Who brings the day; and light you give to us through him.

How beautiful is he, how radiant in all his splendor!

Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Moon and Stars;

In the heavens you have made them, bright

And precious and fair. ...

All praise be yours, my Lord, through those who grant pardon

For love of you; through those who endure

Sickness and trial.

Happy those who endure in peace,

By you, Most High, they will be crowned.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Death,

From whose embrace no mortal can escape.

How dreadful for those who die in sin!

How lovely for those found in Your Most Holy Will.

The second death can do them no harm.

Praise and bless my Lord, and give him thanks,

And serve him with great humility.

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/st-anthony-messenger/st-francis-and-his-canticle-of-the-creatures/

 

Note the place of peace, forgiveness, Eternity and Heaven & Hell!  The Gospel is Handy:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_the-gospel-is-handy-heaven-is-a-activity-7147733644705476608-uYsk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

 

Science itself has a Christian foundation:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2011/05/michio-kaku-epic-fail.html

Saving the Whales is a good cause, but once you deny the Triune God of Christianity and take on a New Agey, Cultish Worldview, your morality is built on sand (not rock).  Evolution fails in many ways: explaining the Soul, new sources of genetic info, Origin of Life #OOL ... Signature in the Cell, Fine-Tuning, Applicability of Maths etc.  Can you defend Theism?  The Universe had a beginning - God created it (Gen. 1:1).  Design implies a Designer (Heb. 3:4).  Ethics must come from a Moral Lawgiver (see Kant).  God is the greatest, so He must exist.[7] 

Once we know that there is a God who made you, clearly He could write a book that you can understand.  Now we're ready for Truth in Religion by Mort Adler:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_firingline-billbuckley-williamabrfabrbuckleyjr-activity-7261866247930195969-ULS9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

The End of Free Speech?

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-end-of-free-speech.html

 

The Sky's on Fire - Ozone Collapse:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_eotw-rush-fun-activity-7312245485094780928-Jion?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

Climate Skeptic Vaclav Smil (How the World Really Works):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/25/magazine/vaclav-smil-interview.html

** see chapter 18, "Animals are Important" (p. 133) >>

God's Wisdom for Man - Jay Hall & Norbert Smith (topical Proverbs & James):

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Wisdom-Norbert-Smith-Ph-D/dp/1463754345

 

Are you familiar with Calvin Beisner and the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/e-calvin-beisner-75a0b75_climate-and-energy-a-case-for-realism-activity-7217199798179762176-fUzI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

https://cornwallalliance.org/

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

** kudos - graphic source:

https://chatgpt.com/c/689128ae-884c-8005-834a-7e451dd3c7ae

https://www.organism.earth/library/author/alan-watts

 

 

Notes:

1) The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway, Wheaton, 1982), Vol. 5,  p. 12.

2) Ibid.,  p. 7.

3) quoted in Ibid., p. 12.

4) Ibid., 32.

5) Ibid., 34.

6) "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis" by Lynn White in The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway, Wheaton, 1982), Vol. 5, Appendix A, p. 69.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.155.3767.1203

7) The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science ed. by Bruce Gordon & William Dembski (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmingtion, DE, 2011).

https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Examining-Role-Naturalism-Science/dp/1935191284

 

#Ecology #Environment #Climate_Hysteria #Global_Warming #ICE_AGE (Post-Flood) #Too_Hot ‼ #Climate_Skeptic #Vaclav_Smil #HowtheWorldReallyWorks

#Science #Christianity #St_Francis #birds #poor #Francis_Schaeffer #Worldview  

#Nature_of_Nature #Bruce_Gordon #ID #Intelligent_Design #DISCO ♫ #Discovery_Institute #Seattle #Dembski #Math_Whiz #EXPELLED #Ben_Stein

#Genesis #GlobalFlood #Creationista #Creation #CritterZ #Fake_NewZ

#Extreme_Weather #Ozone #O3 #Gone_Natural #beatniks #hippies #bikes #NewAge #FreeSpeech #polution #DED7734 #Heaven ↑ #Gospel ╬  

#Calvin_Beisner #Cornwall_Alliance

Stating the Church (Catechesis Any1?)

Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.

This is one of the questions posed by Ligonier on the "State of Theology" survey by self-identified Evangelicals in 2018.  As for what is an evangelical I'd recommend Martin Lloyd-Jones' book:

Happily, a full 94% agree with this statement ...

There is one true God in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Incredibly 73% say that Jesus is a created being‼  Has the term "evangelical" lost its meaning?

Here are the results for this statement:

Even the smallest sin deserves eternal damnation.

What is the solution?  Catechisms and confessions.  Luther's catechism is helpful (menu @ top right).  Also, the Heidelberg confession.  Spurgeon's catechism is quite good.  What do you think is the cure for Low Theology Evangelicals?

Young Earth Today - Did Disraeli Deny Darwin? (& other cool topix)

Here's our latest video:

https://youtu.be/1vBfTnvRDh4

We tackle a potpourri of topics:

• Thunder ... Lightning ♫ & C-14
• How Old is the Earth?
• Tree Rings & Ammonites
• Norman Macbeth (Darwin Retried) & OMNI magazine
• Censorship
• George Bernard Shaw & more!

One interesting paper in Nature from some Japanese researchers last year showed that lightning can produce gamma rays which can lead to the formation of Carbon-14.  Of course, this would require some revisions in radiocarbon dating which does not consider this source.  When was the last time you dated some coal or a dino bone using the C-14 method?  My prediction is that you will get thousands of years and not millions.

"Photonuclear reactions triggered by lightning discharge"

by Teruaki Enoto et al

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24630

Can anyone explain this video to me?

Thunder/Lightning - Imagine Dragons ♫

https://youtu.be/fKopy74weus

  Dragon = Dino
Let me know what you think!

Ecology, Environment and Creation Care

“… Gather up now the fragments (the broken pieces that are left over), so that nothing may be lost and wasted” (Jn 6:12, Amp).

In 1970 Francis Schaeffer wrote Pollution and the Death of Man and said, “… Christians who believe the Bible are not simply called to say that ‘one day’ there will be healing [for the pollution dilemma], but that by God’s grace, upon the basis of the work of Christ, substantial healing can be a reality here and now” [1]  Here is the video version of this blog:

https://youtu.be/EHSI56jNZg0

In 1987 the large garbage barge Mobro from Long Island traveled to six states and three countries trying to get rid of its load. The barge finally went back to New York and the trash was burned in a Brooklyn incinerator. [2]

Just about everything can be recycled; even orange peels can be used in animal feed. It only takes 5% as much energy to make aluminum from old cans compared to making it from scratch using bauxite. Some cities, such as Freeport, IL, charge more for an extra bag of trash. If creating trash cost us something would we be such litterbugs? [3] Turning trash to energy is one way to reduce pollution. Yes Virginia, there is profit in garbage. One incineration plant in Florida made $15 million from its electricity generation. [4] An incinerator makes ash that takes up one tenth the volume as the original trash: The cutting edge of the waste-to-energy industry uses gasification-oxidation which is different from incineration and does not harm the environment.  Triencon who apparently had connections with this project is now into other ventures.  The process Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) can convert carbon monoxide and hydrogen into synthetic lubricants and fuel. Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and other trash can be converted into many useful products:

What about the carbon dioxide produced by waste-to-energy plants? When combined with hydrogen (abundant in the ocean) it can make methane gas. Waste to energy works!

Consider these thoughts from Francis Schaeffer, Beauty does not have to have pragmatic reasons to have value. … When we have learned this - the Christian view of nature – then there can be a real ecology; beauty will flow, psychological freedom will come, and the world will cease to be turned into a desert. [5]  Some wise word from St. Francis:

Be praised, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air, and clouds and storms, and all the weather, through which you give your creatures sustenance. Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. 

"And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth" (Rev 11:18, NASB).

Notes:

1) Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer by Francis Schaeffer, (Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL, 1982), Vol. 5: p. 39, emphasis added. 

2) “Talking Trash” by Virginia Postrel and Lynn Scarlett, Reason Aug/Sep 1991, p. 24. 

3) Ibid., pp. 27, 28, 31. 

4) “Cities Give Waste-to-Energy Plants a Second Look” by Ilan Brat, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6-7, 2008, p. A3. 

5) Schaeffer, p. 55. 

 

#BK2C = Be Kind To Creation 

#NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard 

#DontMessWithTexas 

#KeepAmericaBeautiful

An Open Letter to Walter Bradley (Flood)

Dr. Walter Bradley:
I enjoyed your article “The Trustworthiness of Science in Areas Relating to Natural Science.” Your work on the origin of life and the impotence of mutations is great. My printer took 28 pages for your article and I will refer to these.  In the appendix Geisler claims (p. 23) that Flood Geology requires a “complete revision of geological science.“ In contrast, Stokes and Lee state in their Geology text Introduction to Geology (pub. by Prentice-Hall), that, "A catastrophist might contend that the twisting and breaking of strata, the transportation of huge blocks of rock, the violent cutting of canyons, and the wholesale destruction of life is within the power of a great universal flood--and he would be right." [1]

On page 18 you mention evaporites as a non-rapid formation, yet in Simon and Schuster’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals we read, “Rock salt... is formed by direct sublimation from volcanic exhalations.” [2] A similar claim is in the film “Creation or Evolution?“ produced by Plain Truth Ministries. They favor the progressive creationist view and offer mud cracks in the rock record as evidence against Flood Geology. Elaine Kennedy of Loma Linda comments, “Mud cracks are nearly always presented as problematic. For some reason people have the mistaken idea that there could be no dry ground during the entire flood year and... there are synaresis [UK: synaeresis] cracks which can be mistaken for mud cracks.” [3] Synaresis cracks (shrinkage cracks) which look like mud cracks are caused by changes in salinity which would be expected during the Flood.

You provide the oft used quotation by David Kitts concerning gaps in the fossil record (p. 8). Dr. Kitts taught History of Science and stated in class that the supposed explanation for "overthrusts” where strata are in the “wrong” order by the traditional Geologic Column have very insufficient grounding.  As you may know, he debated Gish and Morris and is not a Flood Geologist.

You claim that the days of creation may be “multiple and/or sequential” (p. 12). The “waw” (and) consecutive in such phrases as “and [waw] God said” and “and [waw] it was evening” in reality requires the termination of one action before the next begins. [4] Overlapping days are not allowed. You suggest that the days may be “indefinite time periods.” The scripture uses large numbers on occasion (10K^2, Rev. 5:11) and could have expressed millions or billions of years if that were the intent. Daniel 2:21-45 is an example of sequential indefinite time periods - why was not Genesis written in like fashion if this is the true message? You can have your millions or billions of years just so long as they are post-NOW. I see no limit on the date of the Parousia. If you wanted to express six normal days, how would you do it?

Your arguments from R. J. Snow for a long sixth day are lacking (p. 12). Adam named all the animals in Eden Preserve that commonly interact with man. We are dealing with kinds, not modern species. Also, recall that Adam was unfallen and probably had higher intellectual potential than you or me. Fast talkers may speak as many as 650 wpm and one can think around 1,000 wpm! Adam’s exclamation “now at length” can also be translated “now at last” - if you had spent your time in intense thought while naming the animals you would be ready for a pleasant surprise and might say “now at last!” In this regard, Bert Thompson points to 1 Timothy 2:13, “For Adam was formed first, then Eve.” [5]

The word “then” is eita in Greek and means “next; after that.”  Jesus “girded himself. Then [eita] he poured water into the basin” (Jn. 13:5) and Christ said “woman, behold your son! Then [eita] he said to the disciple...” (Jn. 19:26,27). There was no long time gap between the creation of Adam and Eve.

You mention some Church Fathers and Josephus as holding to a non-literal day yet their overall position does not support progressive creation. Augustine held to creation in an instant, not multiple creations over millions of years. In The City of God, Augustine places 2,262 years between Adam and Noah’s Flood. [6] One Chinese chronology gives a date for creation of 6157 B.C. Josephus gave a date of 5481 B.C. Kepler held to a date of 3993 B.C. Luther’s date was 3961 B.C. [7] Many Church Fathers held to the pattern that Adam was made on the sixth day so the Second Adam would appear in the 6,000th year: Clement of Alexander, Origen, Eusebius, Lactantius, Theophilus and others. The traditional Jewish calendar places creation at 3761 B.C. The Mayans timed creation on Feb. 10, 3641 B.C. [8]

You mention 10,000 years as the young earth position (p. 13); many hold to the basic accuracy of Ussher’s date of 4004 B.C. whose Annals of the World has been translated into modern English.

Your reference to dust on the moon (p. 14) neglects the fine work of Andrew Snelling who cautions against using this argument. Many advocates of Young Earth Science (YES) no longer bring forth the lunar approach.

You mention radiometric dating (p. 14) which may have beta decay rates that are a billion times faster under certain conditions. [9] The RATE group has found a diamond with C14 supposedly hundreds of millions of years old. This implies that the diamond is less than 50K years old - truly a platinum bullet for the YES position. Diamonds are not subject to contamination due to their tight crystal structure. The RATE group also found C14 throughout the rock record which implies that the entire sum of deposits are less than 50K years. [10] As Don Batten has pointed out concerning coal, some of which is traditionally dated at hundreds of millions of years, “No source of coal has been found that completely lacks 14C.” [11]

Magnetic reversals are mentioned (p. 14) yet there is evidence that this can occur quite rapidly. Prevot and Coe have concluded from their work on lava flows of Steens Mountain in Oregon that the field may rotate as much as 6o per day! [12] This would produce a reversal in one month. Russell Humphreys has a model of the field that allows for decay and reversals.
The coral growth required to form Eniwetok atoll would have supposedly taken 175K years (p. 14). Coral growth based on soundings is as fast as 414 mm per year and thus Eniwetok atoll could have been formed in less than 3,500 years.

In 1972, Cyclone Bebe formed a transported “reef” 3.5 m high in a few hours. [13] This work is supported by growth rings (p. 15), but this is also suspect. According to some astronomical data tidal friction was twice what is now one thousand years ago. Some living shelled creatures have total yearly growth rings from 283 to 425. [14]

You claim sediments formed from shells on the sea floor must take long ages (p. 15). You may be familiar with the whale fossil in the diatomite beds in Lompoc, CA. These beds are tilted and at one time was reported as being in a vertical position yet even horizontally this whale vindicates a catastrophic origin. The present day accumulation of diatoms give no clue to this process. [15] You refer to multiple layers as indicators of great age; however, Mt. St. Helens created many layers in a short time.

The Lord knows the thoughts of man;
he knows that they are futile.
Blessed is the man you discipline, O Lord,
the man you teach from your law
-- Psalm 94:11,12 (NIV)

Notes:
1) Stokes, William Lee and Judson, Sheldon 1968. Introduction to Geology: Physical and Historical: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, p.296.
(this reference was provided by Dr. Elaine Kennedy of Loma Linda Univ.)
2) Annibale Mottana et al, Simon and Schuster’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals, 1978, Simon & Schuster, item 47 - Halite.
3) Personal communication, 2004.
4) “Understanding the Hebrew of Genesis One: Star Formation and Genesis 1” by James Stambaugh, www.ldolphin.org/waw.html
5) “Too Much Activity on Day Six?” by Bert Thompson, www.apologeticspress.org/rr/reprints/daysix.pdf
6) Kelly, Douglas, 1997. Creation and Change. Mentor, p. 128, 129.
7) “Old-earth or young-earth belief” by Don Batten, www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belief.asp
8) “Estimates on the Biblical Date of Creation” by B. A. Robinson, www.religioustolerance.org/ev_date.htm
9) www.answersingenesis.org/docs2001/0321acc_beta_decay.asp
10) www.answersingenesis.org/docs2003/0821rate.asp
11) Batten, Don, Does Carbon Dating Disprove the Bible?, AiG
12) “The ‘Principle of Least Astonishment’!” by Andrew Snelling, www.answersingenesis.org/docs/3397.asp
13) “How long does a coral reef take to grow?”
www.answersingenesis.org/docs/1224.asp
14) “An Eveluation of the use of Growth Lines in Geochronology, Geophysics, and Paleoecology” by Conrad Clausen, www.grisda.org/origins/01058.htm
15) “The Whale-on-its-Tail Fossil”
www.science-frontiers.com/sf104/sf104p11.htm

Young Earth Science (YES) in the news >> Dr. John Baumgardner (Ph.D. Geophysics & Space Physics) was profiled in U.S. News World Report and invented TERRA (a program to model plate tectonics).  They described him as "the world's pre-eminent expert in the design of computer models for geophysical onvection."  Check out Richard Bell's brass dino here.  Neanderthals were no simpletons and even invented a form of super glue.  Young Age of the Earth supported by oil formation off Baja.