Earth Day Perspective

I have plenty of my own thoughts on the ignorance and insolence of Earth Day, but for right now here is a blog posted by Melinda Penner over at Stand To Reason that makes a good observation concerning a disconnect between the secular world and this celebrated event.

Has anyone else but me noticed an inherent contradiction in the underlying convictions that drive annual “Earth Day” celebrations? The vast majority of those who attend such fetes are Darwinists who believe humans have a moral obligation to protect the environment? My question is: Why?

For millions of years “Mother Nature” has spewed noxious fumes and poisonous gasses into the atmosphere and littered the landscape with ash and lava. Indeed, the most “natural” condition in the universe is death. As far as we know, Earth is completely unique; death reigns everywhere else.

Species have passed into extinction at a steady rate from the beginning of time, the strong supplanting the weak. Why shouldn’t they? Each is in a struggle-to-the-death for survival. It is a dance of destruction that fuels the evolutionary process as every creature exploits every other creature for its own benefit. That’s evolution.

No locust swarm stops short of denuding a field because it ought to “leave a bit for the crickets. After all, we all have a right to be here.” The logic of naturalism and the rules of evolution dictate human beings rape our environment, just as everything else does, not protect it.

The moral obligations underpinning Earth Week activities simply do not follow from the naturalistic world view that embraces Darwinism. It follows, rather, from a theistic world view in which God has created man as unique and given him responsibility over the Earth to care for it. Earth Week makes sense for Christians, not for Darwinists.

Suggested STR resource on evolution: Why I’m Not an Evolutionist

[Source: http://str.typepad.com/weblog/2009/04/earth-day-for-evolutionists.html]

This is sooooo going to be my Fall Break Project…

27th February RSS Feed Digest

1) Higher tectonic activity during Earth’s early history could have played a key role in cycling critically important nutrients and energy sources for life.

a. Release trapped nutrients
b. Release pockets of methane gas and molecular hydrogenhttp://beta.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
c. Methane and H could then provide crucial energy sources for nonphotosynthetic life
d. Bring water to otherwise arid habitats, such as rocks far below Earth’s surface
e. Increased amt. of life makes Earth more habitable for humans and increases amts. of biodeposits

2) Agricultural officers in China announced today that the H5N1 avian influenza virus has struck poultry in the southwestern part of the country, a day after new outbreaks were reported in Pakistan, Vietnam, and Bangladesh.

3) What Is Knowledge?

Knowledge = It is to represent reality in thought or experience the way it really is on the basis of adequate grounds.
To Know Something = To think of or experience it as it really is on a solid basis of evidence, experience, intuition, and so forth.

Three Clarifications:
a. Knowledge has nothing to do with certainty or an anxious quest for it.
b. One can know something without knowing how one knows it.
c. One can know without knowing that one knows.

Three Kinds
a. Knowledge by acquaintance
b. Propositional knowledge
c. Know-how

One should not limit what one can see or directly be aware of to the five senses.
Rational awareness = The soul’s ability to directly be aware of aesthetic and moral values, numbers and the laws of mathematics, the laws of logic, and various abstract objects such as humanness, wisdom and so forth.

Knowledge starts with awareness of reality.

4) In December 2007, four Christians were killed, many injured and numerous homes and churches destroyed or damaged in Orissa state in violent clashes that began on Christmas Eve.

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The Ultimate Student Resource List

It’s back to school time, yet again. In the spirit of the season, I decided to gather together the best tools, websites, and advice I know of to help make you a more effective and relaxed student this semester. Since I know you’re broke, it’s all free!

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A thought

A thought occurred to me today. Or, rather, yesterday, as it is now early into the next morning. How do evolutionists explain taset buds? After all, they have no apparent function save to give us a sense of pleasure while eating food. Even then, some foods that are most useful and needed to our bodies, many peopel cannot stand the sensation their taste buds send to the brain when they do eat them. Taste buds are not imminent for survival. If natural selection, the process by which certain traits are selected merely on their ability to promote that species’ existence, explains the complexities of life, how is it that things such as taste buds have survived? Perhaps evolutionists claim that taste buds are remnants of a thing that served a more productive and survival-inducive purpose early in human evolution, like the appendix. Well, first off, the issue of the appendix being useless or merely a remnant of an earlier life form that humanoids evolved from has been scientifically disproven, but I will leave that up to you to research on your own.

‘Tis the same thing concerning one of the highest pleasures of man – sex. It would seem that a more conducive reproductive procedure would be what is known as the “pollination action”. A man merely ‘achoos’ on a group of young, sexually mature females, and ‘poof’, they are all pregnant. Surely natural selection would have selected against such a thing as sex in the way we see it. As a side note, would not have natural selection also selected against humans being only able to have (on average) one to two children at once? And then to have to wait a year and a half before next estrous cycle? For cattle the most efficient calving interval is considered 12 months, and that is the highest such interval among livestock species.

Just some thoughts.