Southern Baptists' Resolution Calls For "Objective Analysis" To Find Cause Of Warming - ENN

[hatrack]

No, I'm not making this up.

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The SBC resolution, approved Wednesday near the end of the denomination's annual meeting, acknowledges a rise in global temperatures. But it rejects government-mandated limits on carbon-dioxide and other emissions as "very dangerous" because they might not make much difference and could lead to "major economic hardships" worldwide.

Originally, the measure also backed more government-funded research into global warming's causes and alternative energies to oil. But the resolution was amended to drop that language, in part over concerns that it would endorse strong government engagement in the issue.

The two-day annual meeting of the United States' largest Protestant denomination, which boasts 16.3 million members, ended Wednesday night. The gathering was highlighted by new steps to prevent child sexual abuse, calls for unity to reverse stagnant membership and a struggle over defining Baptist identity. About 8,500 "messengers," or delegates, registered to attend.

The global warming resolution acknowledges humans bear some responsibility for rising temperatures while urging caution, said Barrett Duke, vice president for public policy and research with the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. "It does not deny there has been a recent warming trend in average global temperatures," said Duke, who helped write the measure. "What it does do is call for more objective analysis in the data that would explain causes of the warming we're experiencing."

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[yurbud]

1. yeah, if only there were some objective, peer reviewed way to study it....

and still get the results the Chamber of Commerce wants.

[Ken Burch]

5. AND put the blame on gays and abortion.

:sarcasm:

[yurbud]

9. both are major sources of co2 emissions

[napi21]

2. What is the SBC's interest in stopping some kind of corrective

measures to combat global warming?

[Ken Burch]

4. Probably because it would require some sort of government spending and intervention

And these types STILL think that anything that leads to "more government" inevitably leads to a "Communist takeover".

That, and states where the SBC is strongest just happen to include a lot of Big Oil states.

[Eugene]

3. *sigh* And they showed signs of getting a clue.

So now they hint at misrepresentation from a conspiracy
of godless scientists out to squeeze the world's poor
people. Maybe if they look at the data again, they'll
find a result more to their liking.

Without government engagement, what do they propose
the world should do about this mess, pray?

[hatrack]

7. What if they gave an End Times, and it really sucked, and no one flew down from Heaven?

Instead, what if it was really sweaty and inconvenient and cost a lot of money?

And what if everybody got sick and the power kept going out, and gasoline cost $7.50/gallon?

And what if that just kept going for thirty or forty of fifty years?

They just may get to find out.

[kestrel91316]

11. Well, if prayer is an appropriate problem-solving tool for

GWB, the Second Coming of Christ, I don't see why it won't work for the rest of us.

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[kestrel91316]

8. Isn't it tragic that absolutely no one has investigated GW to date?

The Church will just have to step in and guide us......

[hatrack]

10. Yes - why aren't scientists working on this obviously important new development!

I DEMAND answers!! :rofl:

[phantom power]

12. Cut them some slack. They're still grappling with this newfangled heliocentricism thing.

To say nothing of that whole Darwin hullabaloo.

[Dogmudgeon]

13. The Southern Baptists need Analysis, all right

And starting with Sigmund Freud's style of Analysis might be a good idea.

--p!