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Creationism and climate – birth of a new pseudoscience
The usual creationist nonsense is just tedious. But creationist “climate science” is toxic, disastrous in its implications for policy, and frighteningly well-connected politically
Major event | Date (using Ussher)1 |
---|---|
Creation | 4004 BC |
Curse | 4004 BC (Day 10 after creation) |
Global Flood | 2348 BC |
Tower Babel | 2242 BC |
Egypt began | After 2242 BC but prior to Abraham going to Egypt (Genesis 12) |
Call of Abraham | 1922 BC |
Ice Age peak | 1848 BC (500 years after the Flood) |
Time of the Judges (Moses was first) | 1491 BC (God appearing to Moses in the burning bush) |
Time of the Kings (Saul was the first) | 1095 BC |
Split kingdom | 975 BC |
Christ was born | ~4 BC |
We are all too familiar with creationist life science (theory of kinds) and creationist Earth science (Flood geology). As I explain in an article at 3 Quarks Daily, recent decades have seen the emergence of a creationist climate science, which is a direct attack on the “secular” climate science of climate change. Creationist climate science rejects, as it must, the palaeoclimatology that helped establish the existence of positive climate feedbacks, and from this draws the inference that our present concern about human effects on climate is unbiblical, unscientific, and exaggerated. This fits in directly with the agendas of the organisations opposing fossil fuel restraint, and even involves some of the same people. We need to pay attention.
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