Now, we would no sooner take Rev. Jerry Falwell’s advice on nuclear physics than we would on climatology. After all he’s a pastor and founder and chairman of the Moral Majority Coalition, not a scientist. However, this lack of qualification hasn’t stopped him from blurring the line between facts and opinion when it comes to global warming. At his this past Sunday’s sermon to the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, Rev. Falwell said:

“And then there’s global warming. We’re worried about everything melting, and our carbon emissions bringing the temperature up. The world is going to flood, and everybody’s going to die. I remember in the 70′s when those same people were saying we’re in for global cooling. It was getting so cold. The fact is this whole thing is cyclical, and the scientists who are not on the payroll of the government to do these studies are saying the jury’s still out — there’s no such evidence there.”

It’s tricky to know just where to start with these assertions, but it should be stressed that last Sunday’s was not the first Rev. Falwell sermon to rail against global warming. In his March 5 sermon, he called 86 evangelical Christian leaders “naïve” for signing onto the Evangelical Climate Initiative. Source: MediaMatters

One of those “naïve” leaders is Scott Freeman, the senior pastor of Northside Church of Christ in Waco, Texas. Today’s Fort Wayne News-Sentinel covers Freeman and his peers, and the concept of “creation care.” Source

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