Earth: Product of Random Evolution or Special Creation?<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Hebert uses this point to highlight that the most important difference between climate change alarmists and those who take a more balanced view of the subject is that the former tend to look at CO2 and temperature in isolation from the whole environment while those who take a more balanced view look at these elements in relation to the whole.\u00a0 Dr. Hebert quotes physicist Freeman Dyson on this important point:<\/p>\n We know that plants do react very strongly to enhanced carbon dioxide.\u00a0 At [the Institute for Energy Analysis], they did lots of experiments with enhanced carbon dioxide and it has a drastic effect on plants because it is the main food source for the plants . . . So if you change the carbon dioxide drastically by a factor of two, the whole behavior of the plant is different.\u00a0 Anyway, that\u2019s so typical of things [climate change alarmists] ignore.\u00a0 They are totally missing the biological side, which is probably more than half of the real system.[i]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Dr. Hebert shows how this tendency of climate alarmists not to look at climate change in relation to the Earth\u2019s entire ecosystem reflects their belief that the Earth and its climate are the product of millions of years of random evolution rather than of special creation and intelligent design.<\/p>\n Consider this scenario.\u00a0 As atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, temperature warm.\u00a0 As temperatures warm, glacial ice melts. As this melt-water enters the ocean, so do iron-containing minerals.\u00a0 It is well known that iron in seawater increases the amount of algae.\u00a0 The iron stimulates \u201cblooms\u201d of algae, which use and trap the carbon dioxide, incorporating the carbon with their cells.\u00a0 When the algae die, they drift to the bottom of the ocean.\u00a0 This removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequesters it on the ocean floor.\u00a0 In describing this mechanism one secular scientist said, \u201cThe Earth itself seems to want to save us [from global warming]!\u201d\u00a0 Of course, it is God who should be given the credit for the design of our climate system, not the Earth![ii]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The Global Flood: A Key to Unlocking the Mystery of Earth\u2019s History<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Hebert goes on to show that one of the main reasons - if not the main reason - why so many secular scientists believe that modest changes in CO2 levels can lead to catastrophic climate change is their belief in the standard evolutionary chronology of the Earth and their denial of the Global Flood.\u00a0 By correlating changes in the relative positions of the Earth and the sun over millions of years with ice cores, many climate scientists have convinced themselves that Earth\u2019s climate has a history of instability.\u00a0 In reality, the ice cores can only be rightly interpreted in light of the Global Flood and the subsequent Ice Age about 4500 years ago.<\/p>\n Dr. Hebert argues convincingly that slow and gradual changes in climate would never produce an Ice Age, because cold air holds less moisture than warm air, and an Ice Age requires an abundance of moisture in the atmosphere with relatively cool summers and mild winters.\u00a0 Only the Global Flood would have produced the unique conditions necessary to precipitate an Ice Age.\u00a0 First, the fountains of the great deep were broken up and spewed enormous amounts of warm water into the atmosphere.\u00a0 Then, volcanic activity all over the Earth propelled debris into the air, partially blocking sunlight, lowering temperatures, and leading to intense precipitation.\u00a0 Finally, in the immediate post-Flood period, lingering volcanic activity spewed aerosols into the atmosphere, resulting in cool summers which prevented ice and snow from melting, leading to the formation of extensive glaciers.\u00a0 The advance and retreat of the glaciers continued for several centuries, but always as part of one Ice Age, not in separate Ice Ages lasting for millions of years.\u00a0 Trying to interpret ice cores within a uniformitarian evolutionary framework which denies the historical reality of the Flood feeds the alarmism of scientists who conclude that small and gradual changes in the past led to multiple Ice Ages and that therefore small changes in CO2 levels and temperatures can lead to catastrophic climate change in the near future.<\/p>\n Through the prayers of the Mother of God, may the Holy Spirit confirm our faith in the sacred history of Genesis, and lead us all into all the Truth!<\/p>\n Yours in Christ through the Immaculata,<\/p>\n Hugh Owen<\/p>\n P.S.\u00a0 We still hope to have the DVD series \u201cFoundations Restored\u201d available for a suggested donation via streaming from a dedicated website by the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.\u00a0 Please pray for our videographer Keith Jones and the rest of our production team that they will be able to achieve this objective.<\/p>\n [i]<\/span><\/span><\/a> Jake Herbert, The Climate Change Conflict <\/em>(Dallas: ICR, 2019), pp. 10-11.<\/p>\n![\"1985.66.328,264_1.tif\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Forest_Jungle.jpg\")
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