Posts Tagged ‘environment’

The Discovery Institute is the organization that is behind many of the excellent videos on Intelligent Design” The Privileged Planet,The Mystery of Life, and interviewed in Ben Stein’s, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

Dr. Egnor, has written a succinct and informative open letter to President Obama regarding the man he selected to be the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John Holdren. Dr. Holdren has a decades long backtrail which allows us a very large window into this man’s soul and belief system. As Bible believing Christians it is incumbent upon us to evaluate people on the basis of their ideas in light of the eternal truths of Scripture.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas for public policy have disastrous consequences for a nation, and in these days, especially for Christians in these nations. At Biblical Perspectives our goal is to encourage people to think about the people, ideas, and policies of the world around us from the divine viewpoint of the Bible.

When you read this open letter, ask yourself how a Bible believing Christian, someone who believes in a personal-infinite, redemptive God, a God who created all things in 7 days less than 10,000 years ago, a God who directly created the human race in his image, can support the ideas, policies, or positions of someone like Dr. Holdren. Further, how can anyone who claims to believe the Bible, support a politician who would appoint such a man to an influential position in our nation.

Here is the open letter by Dr. Egnor.

Dear President Obama,

I note with dismay your appointment of Dr. John Holdren as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Although Dr. Holdren’s experience in academia and administration may be adequate, his publicly expressed views regarding population control disqualify him from holding office.

I will set aside objections to Dr. Holdren’s scientific competence. Despite his strong scientific credentials, he advanced theories in the 1970’s and 1980’s that have become the paradigm of ideologically motivated junk science. He and his collaborators (such as co-author Paul Ehrlich) predicted world-wide famine as a consequence of over-population by the late 20th century, and they advocated radical coercive public policies to avert catastrophe. These predictions were explicit, public, and were published under professional imprimatur. Obviously, the predictions were wrong. Dr.Holdren’s predictions are an exemplar of scientific incompetence.

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Environmental politics may seem to be pretty solid to many people. After all, the media never seems to print any of the prominent critiques of the  scientists who talk as if human causation is a verified reality. However, human causation is much in dispute. If humans cause global warming, then perhaps it would be prudent to change behavior accordingly. However, when the expenses of retooling industry is considered, and the reality that more climatologists than not doubt human causation, then all attempts to control industrial production, change fuel, etc. waste an unbelievable amount of money.  Further, creationists model the environmental factors differently than the atheist, Darwinist scientists, so it seems that worldview has some role. These issues will be addressed as we go forward on the blog. But for now, perhaps we should be reigning in Congress before they slap an incredibly enormous “hidden” tax on all of us that will all but kill an already ailing economy.

Watch here for one democrat congressman’s comments.