Creation Care for Pastors Blog:
[For] any given individual to be skeptical about climate change is neither here nor there from a biblical faith perspective. We trust or distrust varying authorities for varying reasons. Few of us can claim the kind of scientific knowledge that allows us to review the evidence and make an independent assessment of it’s credibility. The National Academy of Sciences might be wrong and the guy on Fox News might be right. But why does skepticism on climate change seem to be so pervasive, almost an article of faith, a kind of default setting among so many of my fellow evangelicals? Why this preponderance of skepticism on this particular issue?
Why the lack of skepticism on man-made climate change from the scientists these pastors and politicians are following around? Instead, it seems so pervasive, almost an article of faith.
Perhaps if these experts were more skeptical of their own findings, I wouldn't need to be. Let me introduce you to those experts on the stock market and mortgage rates we once trusted to manage our collective retirements.
A loving, healthy skepticism for the opinions of men is a reasonable thing. Jesus never trusted Himself to men because He knew our hearts better than we do.
On the other hand, maybe he's right. If we assume the Spirit is working actively in the lives of a preponderance of evangelicals, perhaps this resistance to global warmism really is an article of faith. One that is keeping the Church's priorities in line with God's purposes.
But hey - this is my individual opinion, neither here nor there...
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