"We're Doing God's Science"

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• Steven Earl SALMONY wrote on December 09, 2008, 08:46AM : Flag this comment as inappropriate

  On the need for acknowledging God's science with regard to the human overpopulation of Earth in these early years of Century XXI...........

  Dear Friends of the OnEarth community,

  I want to at least try to gain your quick help. I'm not sure if you've heard, but yesterday the "AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population" submitted an idea for how we think the Obama Administration could change America. It's called "Ideas for Change in America."

  I've submitted an idea and wanted to see if you could vote for it. The title is: Accepting human limits and Earth's limitations. You can read and vote for the idea by clicking on the following link:

  http://www.change.org/ideas/view/accepting_human_limits_and_earths_limit...

  The top 10 ideas are going to be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day and will be supported by a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen leading nonprofits after the Inauguration. So each idea has a real chance at becoming policy.

  Thanks.

  Sincerely yours,

  Steve

  Steven Earl Salmony
  AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,
  established 2001
  http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

• Keith Petersen wrote on December 12, 2008, 04:15PM : Flag this comment as inappropriate

  I'm pleased that you've featured Houghton in the issue. It's one more piece of evidence showing Christian evangelicals need not be opposed to scientific inquiry. Very fit of us fit the negative stereotypes. It's frustrating that all too often the "Christians" who make the most noise are the most ignorant and foolish.

  I was also touched by the setting of the article. I spent a semester in Wales and have been to most of the places mentioned. Thank you!

• Rev. Phil Manke wrote on December 29, 2008, 11:53AM : Flag this comment as inappropriate

  Faith will indeed see us through. Our knowing of how the mind works is still an intensely interesting and contested frontier. I offer this for your consideration.:
  We each have a mind given us by the Love that created us; call it God or whatever. God is NOT a jealous God. What is all powerful and truthful needs not our petty emotion to be as it is. We have written many meanings on the face of truth. Organized religion has not necessarily helped in this regard.
  We each also have a mindset we made. That is the ego. The egos goal is suffering and death and its defense is in studying itself and sophistication of all it knows, and it's defense is required daily to ensure it will survive in spite of your true mind, that remains with you. Ego will offer any solution, provided that it will not work.
  Faith in your true mind is simple, but it seems difficult because it requires letting go of, or undoing the complexity of obstruction we made to hide it. The ego fights the undoing savagely because undergoing it means its death, and the corpses of many people have been piled up to defend this construct. It is based in illusion, and knows it, but also knows it must keep you from realizing this simple point. Seeing is a choice. See only Love in all beings and the ego will disappear. Seeing love is an inner realization reflected outward. Seeing with fear is what the ego wants for you because it means your death, even though it will die as well. This is the classic conundrum the ego hides from your awareness, and is why it is insane in all it sees.
  This is not religion. It is simple mind truth.
  Eternal life is granted in the vision of one mind, shared by all.

• Steven Earl Salmony wrote on December 30, 2008, 04:00PM : Flag this comment as inappropriate

  The dangerous devotion of so many leaders to a "business as usual" status quo as well as to unbridled global economic growth and outrageous per capita overconsumption could prove to be lethal for our children also to worship because these forms of idolatry could soon become patently unsustainable on a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planet like the planetary home which God has blessed us to inhabit......and not to ravage as the leading elders in my "Not So GREAT GREED GRAB Generation" have been advocating so religiously and doing so recklessly in these early years of Century XXI.

  Steven Earl Salmony
  AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
  established 2001
  http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

• James H. Cooley wrote on January 12, 2009, 01:09AM : Flag this comment as inappropriate

  Enlisting the energy of religious people to diminish carbon dioxide emissions that threaten us with global warming as you have described in your interview with Sir John Houghton is possibly the best way for America to lead in confronting this problem. I have been reading thoughts that abound from the organization Institute on Religion in the Age of Science and a book "Green Space Green Time" by Connie Barlow, and these sources make a good case that preserving the creation might be possible with such support.

• Susan Tyler wrote on February 13, 2009, 05:34PM : Flag this comment as inappropriate

  I always assumed my inability to understand the division between religion and science was because of my irreligious beliefs, it particularly refreshing to hear from a scientist who is able to balance both belief systems without compromising either of them.

  I hope that he is able to influence evangelical Christians in the U.S. who have a hard time seeing past the science label to the underlying truth of his statements. It will take concerted efforts on the part of all of us to deal with the problem of global warming and we need people who can bridge the gap between religious beliefs and scientific understanding.

  Thank you for a wonderful and inspiring interview.

• matt wrote on February 26, 2009, 06:16PM : Flag this comment as inappropriate

  Faith and stewardship go hand in hand. I personaly believe that caring for what GOD made is essential to my faith as a Christian. My motivation is faith based, my tools are science and education. The two combined are a force for positive change.

• Steve Salmony wrote on May 11, 2009, 10:56AM : Flag this comment as inappropriate

  Thanks for your clear voices.

  More voices.......we need many more voices speaking out loudly and often. Time is being wasted by those with wealth and power who adamantly defend unsustainable status quo overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species that are overwhelming and threatening to ravage the Earth in our time. Because these distinctly human activities could soon become patently unsustainable, necessary behavior change has to occur fast. If more members of the human family do not speak out to vigorously resist what the leaders of the human community are demanding all of us do now as we strive to ravenously overconsume Earth's resources; to relentlessly hoard wealth; and to overproduce unnecessary stuff, then the planetary home we are inhabiting and overpopulating could be made uninhabitable for our children and life as we know it by 2012.