James Inhofe wrote:Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night,’ my point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.
Whew! that's a relief! I was worried about the possibility that carbon emisssions might be contributing to global warming, but clearly I had not conducted the thorough scientific examination that Senator Inhofe did. No doubt his research has been aided by the 1.4 million dollars in political contributions he has received from the bible-loving, God-fearing Oil and Gas Industry.
Arguing before the Supreme Court in support of laws banning miscegenation (mixed race marriages) Leon Bazile argued in 1967 for the Stete of Virginia:
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
What on earth does miscegenation have to do with climate change? Just this: Bazile argues that mixed marriages should not occur because it is contrary to the will of God. Inhofe argues that climate change cannot occur because it is contrary to the will of God. The difference is that Bazile argues that people's actions CAN change God's vision, Inhofe says that they cannot.
It's funny how God decides which things man can change, and which things he cannot.
After the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, many offered prayers to God to stop the leak in order heal the environment.
Someone dryly observed that the Deepwater Horizon was drilling over six miles below the floor of the Ocean, which was covered 1 mile of water. Using Bazile's argument, God had done a pretty good job of putting the oil where it couldn't hurt anyone. It had taken a pretty significant effort by man for the oil to escape.
So was the Deepwater Horizon accident like miscegenation, or no worries because of Genesis 8:22? Gee, if we only had something like logic to help us decide...