Warrior Legacy FoundationNonymous: It’s the End of the World As We Know It and I Feel Fine
Have you noticed that global warming conferences always seem to be wiped out by blizzard or otherwise abnormally cold weather. It is reason #34 why I believe that God has a sense of humor. In the good old days when scientific inquiry clashed with the Roman Catholic Church concerning the state of the universe a wise fellow by the name of William of Ockham discovered that the religious thinking of the medieval Church placed too many demand on logic and reason. These dogmatic “laws” created too many moving parts to come to a correct conclusion when considering a problem. To correct this problem he proposed something that we now know as Occam’s Razor.
To be brief, Occam’s razor was basically a logical law of economy. It recognized that the simplest answer is usually the correct one, or to paraphrase the late, great George Carlin, “the reason that your keys are always in the last place that you look is that only an idiot would continue to look after finding them.” Those who have a vested interest in maintaining that the keys are still lost would not only continue to search, but also explain why the ring of keys that you currently hold in your hands are not what you have been looking for. In many ways Occam’s Razor inaugurated the resurgence of logic as a basis for discovering truth. It served us well for five hundred years, until it was usurped by the 21st century secular religions.
Yes, you read this correctly, Occam’s Razor was not brought down by the Christian faith, and certainly not by the Protestant Christian faiths. Occam’s Razor actually did much to assist their rise. What all but collapsed logic and reason was the secular faiths of Marxism, humanism, and Darwinism. Without getting in too deep here, what occurred was that people began to believe in these 19th century philosophical theories as a way in which to explain their lives, origins, and eschatological futures. Together they explained the creation of the universe, created a moral universe, and provided true believer with a road map to paradise. What began as a critique of religious (particularly Christian) ideologies quickly became its own religiously based system of thinking.
Worse yet, the philosophies were often proven to be exactly wrong. For instance, Marxism has never been able to prosper a people financially, and the economic theory that it is based on eventually collapsed on its own. Darwinism is fraught with philosophical difficulties that has caused current believers in evolution to abandon Darwin’s theories in all but the most general terms. This is where the priesthood steps in. True believers now have to create negative scenarios to keep their people in line. There must be consequences to the denial of the faith: an Inquisition if you would.
Global warming has become the poster child for the new priesthood. Combining the worst of the religion and science, global warming has become the rationale for teaching our young people a moral imperatives of conservation, the evils of fossil fuels, recycling, et al. In the forty short years of my life we have moved from the “Crying Indian” PSA of the 70s to the recent “Green Police” Audi ad that ran during the Super Bowl. Think about that from a political perspective. The first used emotional manipulation to make its point and convince us to Keep America Beautiful, while the other promotes the use of governmental force in order to assure the purchase of their clean diesel vehicle. Of course many people think it is amusing, but imagine if the Tim Tebow commercial featured Roman Catholic priests arresting young women for using condoms or choosing abortions. Maybe they could retool the Beach Boys classic, “Don’t Worry Baby” into a pro-life theme? Do you think there would be an outcry? Wouldn’t they say that it was a nakedly religious statement? Would anyone giggle at the “humor” of the ad? The Audi ad makes the recently demon-possessed Chester Cheeto look like a good natured Mentos punk.
The recent revelations concerning the global warming scientists at the University of East Anglia only confirms our suspicions. These scientists withheld information that contradicted their premise, cooked the data when they could and engaged in a widespread campaign to belittle and demean those who dared to disagree with holy writ. They have become the priests of this new religion. Sure they are scientists, but lab coats are no less a uniform than Clerical robes.
Global warming alarmists have predicted that global warming will cause everything from heat waves to blizzards. They are setting themselves up to correct regardless of the truth of their predictions. In the religious world a prophet who gets it wrong is considered to be a false prophet. When Oral Roberts prophesied that the Lord would take him unless his followers gave money to his ministry, we all thought that he was crazy and laughed at those who sent their checks. But what happens when the government actually affirms the crazy predictions of the global warming religious fanatics? What happens when failed scientist and failed theologian, Vice-President Al Gore is the one who is making the predictions and dragging both parties into insane fiscal and political policies?
I love our world. I want it to be clean and beautiful. I will plant a tree and pick up my trash. But global warming activists want us to abandon some of the greatest and cleanest fuels and tools that humanity has ever created without a future solution before us. Technological progress and natural functions have become the enemies of global warming religionists. Clean burning coal is now bad. CO2 has become a poisonous gas. Oil is the enemy. We are actually trying to figure out how to diminish the ecological damage of cow farts. The new priesthood is on the march and they want to tell you how to live. Of course there is nothing wrong with the our government imposing morality on the people, right? How could that possible go wrong?
Great stuff… it seems as the black cloud used to follow the lil Abner character, the proverbial blizzard follows the global warming symposiums, announcements, and conventions… if this government did not ‘know better’ they might blame God
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Okay, a couple of problems there:
How do the “secular faiths” of Marxism, humanism, and Darwinism purport to explain the origin of the universe? They don’t. Cosmology does, and you may have left it out of your list because no cosmologist has suggested that the Big Bang, Supersymmetry, M therory or any of that rules out a God-powered creation event. They just rule out 99% of the nonsense that has made up religious dogma for millenia… as you began your piece by explaining. Occam’s Razor, however, does. Cosmology admits agnosticism with regards to what occurred before the Big Bang – it very well could be biblical. But to imply that a biblical explanation, with all the logical entanglements it entails is most parsimonious FAILS Occam’s test!
You continue to rail against “Darwinism”:
“Darwinism is fraught with philosophical difficulties that has caused current believers in evolution to abandon Darwin’s theories in all but the most general terms.”
That is news to anyone with a degree in biology. The only place you hear nonsense like that is The Discovery Institute and its fellow travellers. If you want to talk about bad science, fake fossilized dinosaur footprints overlapping human ones is a good place to start.
The link that you really fail to draw between evolutionary biology and global warming is utterly fatuous.
That said, there is a hell of a lot of bad science being unearthed with Climategate. The idea that humans are causing catastrophic global warming is ridiculous religiosity to anyone with a command of simple math and internet skills. You are right in that it IS the same thing as saying the world is flat and “the science on the issue is settled.”
However, your attempts to group non-religious people, pro-choicers, global warmists, Marxists, and humanists together insults your intelligence. It’s the same rhetoric as grouping together tea-partiers, abortion doctor murderers, the KKK, etc. like we see too often in KOS and MSNBC land. It’s a simplistic in-group vs. out-group dual categorization, and it weakens your argument to the degree that I’ve utterly missed whatever point you were trying to make. These kinds of us vs. them memes are apples and oranges to the unnecessary agents problems that Occam’s Razor deals with. Coincidentally you have fallen into the same trap you introduced your piece by describing!
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Thank you for your comments. Apparently I was inelegant in my article. First let me say that I am in no way attempting to play an us versus them game. My point is simply that even that even science can become faith-based. This is what we have clearly seen with Global Warming enthusiasts.
Who would have imagined that science and Progressive thinking would be utilized as the rationale for abandoning the advances that have allowed us to rapidly improve our lives over the past 100 years.
Apparently I have touched a few nerves in you and for that I apologize, but do you really think that my farcical comment regarding the Tim Tebow ad can be interpreted as a shot against pro-choice advocates?
I am certainly not railing against Darwinism when I state that there is serious disagreements within the scientific community regarding the theory of evolution. To state one specific debate, in the early 20th century Julian Huxley popularized the concept that Darwinian change occurred slowly over a long period of time. Eventually this became accepted as truth. Stephen J. Gould disagreed with this theory and stated that the fossil record and Darwinian theory would actually say the opposite, that speciation occurred quickly and in short bursts of change. Sir Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the double helix, has all but abandoned the ideas of Darwin and has written of his belief that life on earth may have been seeded from outer space. Of course, this represents a very small sampling of the thinking, but evolutionary science is as diverse in opinion as any other branch of the philosophical tree. To claim that there is no dissension in evolutionary science is simply wrong.
The goal of this article is to simply pop the self-inflated bubble of hubris that is infecting us on so many levels. We are used to seeing it in religious circles, but it often catches us by surprise when the uniform changes.
The link that I am attempting to show is simply the dangers of hubris. Snow stopping a global warming conference is ironic. Those who deny that it is cold are suffering from delusional hubris. When hubris is connected with power in a political-religious framework then adversaries become not simply wrong but evil. Then it is a quick step toward an intifada or purge. This is what is happening with regard to the Global Warming movement.
When our faith system (regardless of what it is) becomes separated from humility and honest questioning (ie. the science is settled, the earth is the center of the universe, etc) then the Green Police can quickly turn into the Spanish Inquisition. And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Thank you for your comments and I hope that this forum can continue to provoke and promote honest questioning and disagreement from intelligent people like you.
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