If the ID-IOT crowd manages to persuade schools and textbooks to teach the controversy" on evolution, meteorology may be next. Despite any number of Biblical verses that clearly state that God causes weather, meteorology attempts to reduce all forms of weather to the materialistic effects of blind forces such as heat flow, air movement, and evaporation and condensation of water.
Now, of course, I don’t actually think for a second that naturalistic meteorology actually undermines Christianity. People still pray about the weather, even though they know that weather is caused by natural processes. Belief in natural processes, and belief in God’s action in the world, are simply not in conflict for these people. If God can act through natural processes, then a natural explanation of something is not a threat to the belief system.
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