Move over God, man is in charge!

That, anyway, is the implication of a comment UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is, according to the UK Telegraph, scripted to make at the climate summit in Copenhagen today.

In an impassioned speech, Brown is set to say, “Hurricanes, floods, typhoons and droughts we have from time immemorial thought of as invisible acts of God we can see clearly now as the visible acts of man.”

Hmmm.. Seems to me Scripture, which is a somewhat higher authority than Mr. Brown, has something to say about that.

“Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.  7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightnings for the rain, Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries” (Psalm 135:6-7).

Mr. Brown’s comment must not be taken lightly. It is the comment of a man who has abandoned Biblical faith. And it is the comment of a man who has exalted man to the place of God.

Such thinking dominates the global warming alarmist mindset. It has little or no room for a Biblical worldview and how that would shape our understanding of the surrounding world.

But precisely that Biblical worldview is what equips those who believe it to understand, better than the secularists and the pagans and the adherents of other religions, the workings of God’s creation. And that understanding is part of what helps us to recognize the fallacious underpinnings of global warming fears.

As the Cornwall Alliance has explained in A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming, our new 76-page scholarly document, worldviews that see the Earth as the product of blind chance naturally think it’s fragile, subject to catastrophic change because of minute influences. But the Biblical worldview tells us that Earth is the product of God’s intelligent design and is sustained by His omnipotent faithfulness, and therefore is robust, self-regulating, and self-correcting—consistent with God’s seeing, when finishing creation, that it was all “very good” (Genesis 1:31).

The Renewed Call to Truth is the evidential basis for our other new document, An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming, which has already been endorsed by hundreds, including many Christian leaders like Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; Tom Minnery, Vice President of Focus on the Family; Dr. Wayne Grudem, Research Professor of Theology, Phoenix Seminary; scientists like Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Physics, Grove City College; Neil L. Frank, Ph.D., former Director, National Hurricane Center; Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, Climatologist, University of Alabama, Huntsville, and NASA Science Team Leader for the Aqua Satellite global temperature research program; and economists like Cornelis van Kooten, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Research Chair in Environmental Studies and Climate, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Ken Chilton, Ph.D., Emeritus Director, Institute for the Study of Economics and the Environment, Lindenwood University; and Charles Van Eaton, Ph.D., Emeritus Director of the Bryan Center for Critical Thought and Practice, Bryan College.

I invite you to read the An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming and add your endorsement to it. It’s one way for you to assert the opposite of what Mr. Brown has said.