Scientists and Evangelicals in One Accord

Some scientists are joining with some Christian evangelicals to convince politicians that
global warming is a real threat. Chuck Quirmbach reports:

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Some scientists are joining with some Christian evangelicals to convince politicians that
global warming is a real threat. Chuck Quirmbach reports:


About thirty scientists and religious leaders have teamed up. One of them is Calvin
DeWitt. He’s president of the Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists. DeWitt
says when the partnership was first discussed last year, he thought there would be tension
between the researchers and the religious community:


“In fact the opposite was found, there was a tremendous concord between the secular
scientific people and the evangelicals. The concord was the agreement that we had to
move forward fully to care for the creation.”


DeWitt says the scientists pushed for using the term “creation,” as a way to include both
people and the rest of the biosphere.


But another group of evangelicals says the partnership creates a false impression of
growing consensus in the religious community about global warming.


For the Environment Report, I’m Chuck Quirmbach

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