Not to mention that within my own lifetime we went from an ice age scare to a global warming scare with Alar, and too-numerous-to-count other scares thrown in.
Considering the millions of years of history of our planet, one generation of measuring ocean levels and ozone is not enough to perceive a pattern. Not to mention that most of the predictions come from horrendously flawed computer programs. I am grimly humored by the daily headlines that come across the internet touting the dangers of global warming. It’s the old disinformation ploy: It doesn’t matter whether or not if it’s true: teach it to the young and repeat it often enough and all will believe it.
My all time favorites, though, are punctuated equilibrium (instead of happening gradually,evolution occurred in one generation–too quickly to leace a fossil record) to explain why there is no fossil record of inter-species evolution, and record freezes and cold weather being a result of global warming. If that isn’t eating your cake and having it, too.
For the record, I too think that God is alive and well. God permits all that happens to happen, whether He wills it or allows man through free will to will it or cause it to happen. I was struck by all of the powerful hurricanes that struck Florida throughout the Schiavo debacle.
Personally I cringe whenever someone says “God bless America.” I prefer that He bless individual Americans and give them the graces needed to bring this country back to a morality in line with divine revelation first. His blessing, if we insist on calling it down on our heads, may well be in the nature of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Whatever happens, I try to teach my children and others the Gospel message, the Truth of God with us, Emmanuel, as well as how to recognize the fallacious thinking that is commonly accepted as rational today.
In Christ’s peace and joy,
Robin L. in TX
