[quote]That One Guy wrote:
playmaker08 wrote:
ElbowStrike wrote:
formerfatboy wrote:
I agree, there is plenty of unused land in the world. That’s not the issue.
You forgot to point out that he failed to include the inevitable crux of the “Overpopulation/Pollution/Ozone-Layer/Global Warming is a Myth” crowd’s line of thinking:
“God would never allow it!”
Deus ex machina thinking. It’s worse than circular logic.
God would never allow Earth to be overpopulated, too many greenhouse gases to build up, xenoestrogens and other toxins to build up in our food and water supply, the oceans to be overfished, the forests overlogged, the farmland depleted…
Just like God prevented the Natives from being slaughtered, the rise of Naziism, the Holocaust, Pearl Harbour, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The USSR and the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, 9/11, Iraq II…
Oh wait, “God” didn’t stop ANY of those things, so what makes Evangelicals with no background in the sciences whatsoever so confident that “God” would not “allow” us to screw up our own planet?
“Faith”
Excuse me while I Roll On the Floor, and proceed to Laugh My Ass Off.
Rant’s not directed at you. I just had to is all.
ElbowStrike
Wow, great way to bring God into this thread and argue with yourself. Just to make a point, God gives us free will and thus allows us to make our own choices, which could include overpopulating.
…Which is why saying that your god, “your” not directed at playmaker just your in general, won’t let these things happen is a wrong assumption.
Great way to validate ElbowStrike’s original argument.[/quote]
I guess I misread his post. Thats what I get for half-reading the thread then posting while playing halo wars.