One must remember that up to a point, especially Genesis, everything written is hearsay. However, Man is supposed to be the one with the brain as opposed to all other creatures on earth, thus the ability to control and use the fruits of the earth to the benefit of all. Not exploit or destroy them. Many years ago it was called common sense! Globel warming is in all probability a natural occuring cycle of earth, we, with increased population and useless, uncaring, exploitation of earths resources are speeding the process up. We should have started paying attention 17 yrs. ago when scientists first started to acquire the knowledge of this happening.

Religious conservatives in the United States view resource extraction as an inalienable right. Our natural resources are under growing threat from a torrent of new laws that encourage mining on federal land, weaken protection for species, habitat and wetlands, accelerate deforestation, and promote drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of earth’s few remaining pristine areas. For millennia, peoples of nearly all cultures have been taught that humans are special in the eyes of their god or gods, and that the world is made for their benefit and use. This is made clear in Genesis 1:1, which states: God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." To further prove our superiority, and denigrate all other living things, God goes on to say: Of all visible creatures only man is "able to know and love his creator." He is "the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake," and he alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in...

Amen!