And I'll say one more thing about that:
It's considered rock solid proven gospel that we can and do alter the climate. Fine. Well and good. We have that power. It follows that we need to achieve a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved, and eventually we will be able to control it. What we can influence, once we can understand that influence, we can devise the means to direct it. Anyone who claims otherwise is an intellectual coward, masking Luddite sympathies under a would-be seemlier cloak of "environmental science." The sort of neo-Victorian moralist who frets over "playing God."
God is the only game worth playing.
Were we created in God's image? Play accordingly. We were created creators. Science was meant for us to use. Nature was meant for us to unlock. Evolution is no threat, not to those who who have the necessary faith to understand that we are not only blessed with the ability to unravel the secrets and methods of creation - we are expected to do so. God doesn't limit us thus! Only lack of faith in God bars us from taking up these gifts. We're afraid of what we'll find; we are afraid lest we find no limits left within us.
I'm not afraid. It's going to get pretty sweet around here, once we get serious about our obligation to live up to our role as the planet's premier self-directed species.
Assuming we don't war ourselves off the face of the earth first, I mean. Can't discount the possibility. Free will and so forth.
It's considered rock solid proven gospel that we can and do alter the climate. Fine. Well and good. We have that power. It follows that we need to achieve a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved, and eventually we will be able to control it. What we can influence, once we can understand that influence, we can devise the means to direct it. Anyone who claims otherwise is an intellectual coward, masking Luddite sympathies under a would-be seemlier cloak of "environmental science." The sort of neo-Victorian moralist who frets over "playing God."
God is the only game worth playing.
Were we created in God's image? Play accordingly. We were created creators. Science was meant for us to use. Nature was meant for us to unlock. Evolution is no threat, not to those who who have the necessary faith to understand that we are not only blessed with the ability to unravel the secrets and methods of creation - we are expected to do so. God doesn't limit us thus! Only lack of faith in God bars us from taking up these gifts. We're afraid of what we'll find; we are afraid lest we find no limits left within us.
I'm not afraid. It's going to get pretty sweet around here, once we get serious about our obligation to live up to our role as the planet's premier self-directed species.
Assuming we don't war ourselves off the face of the earth first, I mean. Can't discount the possibility. Free will and so forth.
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