While it may seem like everyone believes in global warming and the impending catastrophe it will bring, a group of conservative Christians countered that message Thursday by launching a national campaign to gather one million signatures for a statement that says Christians must not believe in all the hype about global warming.
The “We Get It!” declaration, which currently has nearly 100 signers, is backed by prominent Christians including Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, award-winning radio host Janet Parshall, and U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma.
In short, if you are a follower of these loons, you are supposed to bury your head in the sand because the leaders of the bible-beating crowd decide that the science is too uncertain:
“How can you create policies on uncertain science?” asked Dr. Barrett Duke, vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
“How can you say what it is that needs to be done when you don’t really know and you don’t really have real consensus on the state of the problem or what is causing the problem?”
Wow - suddenly everything's about "concensus" - of course, it is virtually impossible to reconcile rational, evidence-based reasoning with someone who is arguing based on their "article of faith" position. By the time that the "absolute" proof that these loons want from science exists, it will be far, far too late to act upon it at all.
Of course, there is also a huge amount of irony in their whining about setting policy based on "uncertain science". Not only do these same people keep demanding that public policy be set on the basis of biblical scripture, they do so assuming their particular intepretation of scripture ... and as anybody with their eyes open will recognize, there is little or no real concensus in interpreting scripture, much less whether the truth value of any particular interpretation is absolute... talk about uncertainty!
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