A question for Christians.

[surprise buttsecks]

So I just thought of something, and it would be quite interesting to run it by a couple of you.

Why is there currently a major crisis regarding global warming? The way I see it, if God made the world, then it would be perfect according to the bible, right? So why is it vulnerable when it comes to global warming?

Surely an all knowing God would be able to predict the effect of creating intelligent life on a planet with as many natural resources as ours? Surely it was only a matter of time until something like this happened? So why would God willingly create something that would eventually unwravel?

Because unless I am ignoring something blatant (Which I tend to do from time to time), it seems to me that global warming is evidence God doesn't exist.

In the Bible - Noah and the flood.

That wasn't perfect, but it was a part of his plan.

Killed a shitload of people too.

OK, I'm not a christian, so I can recognise the weaknesses in this argument, but I presume they would use the free will defence here. That is to say - "god gave us free will, so it is our fault we fucked up"

Yeah, its rubbish isnt it. I mean, technically your argument doesnt prove anything, because god (if he exists) probably knows better than you. However, I do think it adds an extra dimension of complexity, and therefore is a less satisfactory answer than the lack of a god, or an omnipotent, omniscient one anyway (although, using logic, we can see that these are incompatible...)

[surprise buttsecks]

I thought that the free will argument would come up, but I would have thought that a God would know that giving man free will, especially in our case (Everyone having a different opinion), would ultimately end in us killing eachother.

If God is our father, and we are his children, why would he just watch as we kill each other?

I'm not really a christian, but my dads a pastor, and i know some about the bible. According to the bible, God made a perfect Earth, the Garden of Eden. Sin ruined that world, so now we got global warming.

[Vanhalla]

Originally Posted by surprise buttsecks

If God is our father, and we are his children, why would he just watch as we kill each other?

Shits and giggles?

[Hexadecimal]

I don't even know if I should respond to the OP. I'm seriously sitting here in awe at his reasoning: Environs can be influenced thus God doesn't exist?

[Rust]

Don't play (be) dumb. It's the argument from evil. The "evil" here is all the bad that could come from drastic environmental change.

The argument from evil is a perfectly reasonable argument to make.

[surprise buttsecks]

Originally Posted by Hexadecimal

I don't even know if I should respond to the OP. I'm seriously sitting here in awe at his reasoning: Environs can be influenced thus God doesn't exist?

Unless you missed the entire point on purpose, I'm confused about your response. The point was, why would a creator sit back and do fuck all while a world is slowly dying? It's like if you had a child who had an illness that would end up claiming his life unless you acted, would you not act?

You could argue that through God thousands of people are trying to prevent it by cutting down on carbon emissions and whatnot, but a problem of this scale requires a grand gesture, in my opinion. Because clearly, it's not really working.