Before I begin, I must apologize for this long Blog, I am compelled to express myself and it will take a few words to do that. Sorry, please read at your own risk.
Yesterday was a cool day on Marco, temps were only in the upper 40's but I was determined to get a walk in, so I set out with sweatshirt and wind breaker as the winds were somewhere in the 30mph with gusts up to 40 or so, the walk across the bridge on Collier on my way to Starbucks was surely in need of a life line to hold onto. Talk about wind, nearly blew me right off the bridge. A breezy day to say the least, not that I am complaining a bit, I hear back home has 9 inches of snow and below temps. But I got my coffee scoop, which I was after as I forget to bring the one I have at home, and the last two mornings the coffee was on the weak side, having to get used to a new maker, and such, I thought I better have the right size scoop, then out on the walk to get the rest of the body moving. Later in the day we got ready to make our journey off the island to the place that Park & Shar Davis live. They had invited the 3 of us for dinner. It was a delightful time including "happy hour" and such, snacks that were great, and conversation about the ailments of the aging fivesome present. What else do older people talk about? Well dinner was very superb, Shar out did herself, and everything was very tastefully done, including the dessert that Park made an exceptional presentation of, I thought I was in a most excellent dining Establishment. As the dessert was being consumed the conversation turned to the environment, Shar was expressing her opinions of how we humans are consuming all the natural resources of this planet and how they are almost used up and what are our children and grandchildren going to do. In fact with the "Global Warming" all the ice is melting, but rather then an increase of water level, the water level is decreasing due to most of it evaporating into the air, and not staying in the clouds to return as rain, but rather continuing to raise far into the atmosphere and getting burned up by all the greenhouse gases. Now I sat respectfully throughout that distortion even if it did not seem to me to contain correct facts. You see I have studied to some extent the evaporation of water from the Earth's surface. When water evaporates into the air and raises with the air into the upper levels of the atmosphere something called "lifting level of condensation" occurs. As air raises it cools around 3 degrees per thousand feet of elevation and at this point of lifting level, it condensates and forms clouds, that is why those nice big white clouds are flat on the bottom. As the moisture continues to enter the cloud it gains more and more weight until it can no longer remain aloft and returns to the Earth as rain.
The idea that this moisture could continue to pass through this lifting level of condensation and remain in a vapor has no merit at all. I did not express that to my host as I would have been completely out of line insulting her idea, and the fact that both Park and Shar are extremely nice people, and have extended the hand of freindship to me. Knowing, however she will not ever read this blog, I am free to do so now. I did, however, after much restraint, have to express my own beliefs regarding us humans using up all the resources of this planet. I explained as calmly as possible, and knowing me, you must understand that is not my normal mode of action, how I believe we have not even tapped the natural resources this planet has for us. Because I am a creationist and believe that God did in fact create this planet with all the foreknowledge of how advanced us humans would become, and what we would do that could have any effect on his creation, if any at all. Because of this foreknowledge and his promise to provide all of our needs according to his riches in glory.
Phil 4:1919 And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. NIV
In meeting all our needs which include all the natural resources we will ever need. He will sustain us, He created an Earth that would not only meet all our needs but would continue to do so and be reactive to any actions on our part. As an example of that, the North American Continent has been labeled as a "carbon sink", you may read many articles regarding this, one which has some interesting facts is:http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/catalyst/fa04-catalyst-forest-carbon-sequestration.html
The whole and sum of all this I explained was that if God did not or could not create an environment for his creation, us, that would meet all of our needs and sustain us and itself at the same time, then he would not be God. The idea that we could destroy what God created seems to me to express the idea that man is greater than God. How could we humans have more effect then God on his own creation? Sorry my friends, I just cannot accept that in any form. Do I believe we should run wild and attempt to destroy it, absolutely not. Do I believe we should care and tend to the Earth, absolutely! I have planted many trees and seen to the planting of many more. I recycle, saving the land fills from things that will not biodegrade and form methane gas which has been used for energy in some cities. Even through the garbage of our lives, God has given men wisdom as to use it to the betterment of mankind. The fact is, according to my beliefs, is God is greater then men, and we cannot ever destroy this planet, in fact God will someday, as he has also promised, and instead of being so concerned about the temporary place we live, we should consider with great thought about the eternal place we will live. If we put to much value in this temporal Earth, and little value on the other, the scripture tells us that where a man's treasure is there also is his heart. The question we all need to consider is, what do we place value on, where is our heart?
Well, enough for now, I suppose some might wish to comment about this long blog, that is your freedom, as it is mine to write this. Have fun.
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