Al Gore's Remission of Sin ; Global Warming As Neo-Animism

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Some neuro-scientists see evidence that man is genetically hard- wired to be disposed to religious conviction. If this is so, it might explain why among even the French the most secular culture on Earth only 25 percent claim to be atheists and a full 60 percent believe in a spiritual component to life. It might also explain why the environmental movement tends to veer toward a religious, rather than a scientific, sensibility.

This oft-observed aspect to environmentalism in general, and global warmingism in particular, has been shrewdly analyzed in a new book, "The Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction," by former University College London Professor David Orrell. Among other things, Dr. Orrell focuses on the similarity between global-warming advocates' powerful predictive urge and the inherent prophetic nature of the religious instinct.

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Al Gore's Remission of Sin ; Global Warming As Neo-Animism

While I suspect that most global-warming alarmists would be offended if they were called pagan neo-animists, in fact, some leading religious scholars have written cogently on the point. For example, Graham Harvey, professor of religious st...

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