Could Creationism Help Bring an End to Global Warming? [View all]

[Boojatta]

The impact that human beings have on the world is enormous. To understand that impact, it's enough to understand two things: what human beings want and what they do in an effort to obtain what they want. Fortunately, human beings are rational, so what they want is very simple: more money. It's more difficult to understand what people do. If they saw the world as it really is, then they would simply make the choices that will bring them closer to achieving their goal. To understand their actual choices, you need to know about the gap between the world as they see it and the world as it really is. That human beings have misconceptions is an actual fact about the world, and a very important fact about the world. To understand the world, you need to understand those misconceptions.

We can think of the world as consisting of two envelopes. The first envelope contains the slip of a paper with a number on it. The second envelope contains a slip of paper with a number that is our best guess of the number in the first envelope. Long ago, we tried to make a good guess, but we were cold. As human beings make progress in better understanding the world, the guess in the second envelope gets warmer and warmer. Evidently, this progress is causing global warming. A step backwards to mythic conceptions of biology could help reverse the trend, and put a stop to global warming.