This morning was my last morning of summer vacation.  I am a teacher, and school starts for our faculty tomorrow at 8:30 AM.  So, I enjoyed my last morning of vacation relaxing over a cup of coffee and the Today Show. During the morning news, I learned that: breakfast may not be the most important meal of the day, coffee is good for us, and you CAN make up for missed sleep.  Interesting.

So, while surfing the web later in the day and I happened upon the article "Rush Limbaugh says, "'If You Believe In God ... You Cannot Believe In Man-Made Global Warming', it took me a while to think it all through.  First of all, as my morning news viewing goes to show, science can get it wrong, and has frequently.  When I was in high school, we were all bracing for the new ice age.  35 years later, the world is getting too hot.  The fact is, we don't know where the world will be in our great grandchildren's days.  I'm  no expert and only know as much about global warming as any average news viewer.  The evidence seems convincing enough to support efforts to decrease ozone damaging emissions.  On the other hand, I had a hearty breakfast this morning knowing what an important meal it is. 

So, while the verdict is still out on global warming, at least for me, I still had to wrestle with the heart of the article: Limbaugh's claim that to believe in global warming is proof of atheism.  Rush is quoted as saying, "So John Kerry says that climate change is a challenge to our responsibility as the safeguarders of God’s creation. What about God’s creation called a fetus, Secretary Kerry, what is your responsibility as a safeguarder there? See, in my humble opinion, folks, if you believe in God then intellectually you cannot believe in man-made global warming."

I must say now that I am adamantly pro-life.  Current science is at least as convincing that an unborn child is a human as it is that global warming is a reality.  What we know about brain waves, DNA and other prenatal development issues is light years ahead of what we knew in 1973 when Roe versus Wade went to the Supreme Court.  I agree with Rush's stance on this, but not as an argument against global warming.  This is a classic apples / oranges situation.  In fact, to be truly 'pro-life' should include creation care, as future generations' lives are dependent on what we do to our world today.

But Rush's faulty logic goes way beyond this one point.  He went on to say, "You must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something he can’t create."  Um, don't we do that all the time?  Didn't God kinda ASK us to do this when he said, "God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it" ? Isn't this what we did when we split the atom?  I doubt the people of Hiroshima, Nagasaki or Chernobyl would agree with Rush's hypothesis.

Where does Rush get off playing theologian? Worse still, where do so many Bible believing Christians get off listening to this guy and treating him like a modern day prophet?  This three times married recovering drug addict who takes sex vacations to the Caribbean.  This man who has made a career out of arrogance. 

Please, if you are a Bible believing fellow brother, return to belief in the Bible and not in Rush. God  spoke to Elijah in a still, small voice, not in a screeching rants.