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We Are Not Saving the Earth; We Are Saving Ourselves
Once one of my best friends asked his biology professor a question, and keep in mind we were in a church-founded college: “If God created the world for us only, why did he create dinosaurs too? Didn’t the Bible say God created everything for our benefit? We didn’t use dinosaurs.”
“God must have his purpose that we don’t know,” the professor answered, “maybe He created them so we have oil today?”
My friend later told me about it. I was at that time a good church member, but upon hearing this my eyes grew big like two plates. When we are children, we are self-centered and that’s alright, because we are unable to look at things from another perspective. But it seems some ideology is teaching people to remain that way.
I feel this kind of mentality is at least one of the reasons we see so many climate change deniers. The problem is: science is not religion, you don’t get to cherry-pick what you want to believe.
I’m not even going to discuss whether climate change is real or not and whether that’s our doing; all scientific evidence is there. What I want to share is the idea of “we must save the earth.”
