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Pete Enns<\/a> linked to a blog post<\/a> that makes a point I\u2019ve often made here<\/a>. If you are going to oppose evolution on the grounds that it embraces naturalism<\/a>, then by golly you\u2019ve got to really get upset about meteorology. It is secular, fundamentally opposed to Biblical teaching, and on the television 24\/7. After summarizing the Biblical teaching on the subject, Heather Goodman writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Now some might say that storehouses for snow and hail are just some sort of poetic device, or a metaphor or something. \u00a0 But seriously \u2013 who wants to go sledding down that slippery slope? \u00a0 If you start considering the snow storehouses to be a metaphor, instead of God\u2019s ordained method (not to mention accurate revelation) about where snowstorms come from, then how do we know if ANYTHING in the Bible should be taken literally? \u00a0 Today, it will be metaphorical snow storehouses, tomorrow it will be a metaphorical six days of Creation, and before you know it, we\u2019ll be talking about a metaphorical Jesus. \u00a0What justification would we then have to distinguish between what should be read symbolically or culturally, and what should be read as actual history? \u00a0 Anyway, it\u2019s totally sloppy exegesis to even suggest anything is metaphorical in the Bible unless the Bible itself clearly says, \u201cthis is a parable\u201d or \u201cspiritually speaking\u2026\u201d or something, because God wouldn\u2019t let anything as important as knowing how to read the Bible be anything but completely self-evident and spelled out like that.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So, beware. \u00a0 The biggest enemy to our children and our society is not evolution; because we all know about that threat and thankfully we now have lots of \u201cCreation Science\u201d books and seminars to explain how science has distorted the truth how God created our world which is clearly spelled out in scripture. \u00a0 No, the true enemy to our thinking is coming from unnoticed corners, not the least of which is the darkened corner of The Weatherman\u2019s Studio. \u00a0 (Let me add \u2013 while Ray Comfort might ask people to prove the 65 million year process of evolution in a laboratory by test and repeat, and people might stammer and not know how to answer, meteorology presents a much greater threat. \u00a0 Because snow and hail CAN be made over and over again in a lab, and can even be observed being created in clouds. \u00a0 This makes these godless lies against the Bible\u2019s testimony much, much more dangerous.) \u00a0 Beware \u2013 and please, make sure you use your child safety controls on the Weather Channel and all network news stations, to make sure your children are not infected with this worldly way of thinking about snow and hail!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eye on the ICR<\/a> also tackled the fundamentalist slippery slope argument as used by Henry Morris:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Of course, those are\u00a0Morris\u2019<\/em>\u00a0words, and the slippery slope that brought us here is of his own making. For he forgot the zeroth stage, the one where the devil was allowed to write the rules of the game. When you tell people that doubt about matters only tangential to their faith leads inevitably to a rejection of that faith altogether, then once they start to doubt they\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0end up a non-Christian and \u201cunsaved,\u201d and not simply a non-fundamentalist. And in the real world, the one where the words of a demon cannot be blamed for the actions of real people, it\u2019s all the fault of little articles like this one by Morris III.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so perhaps even fundamentalists ought to consider the possibility that Satan\u2019s minions are not the weather reporters, nor the chemists<\/a>, but the young-earth creationists themselves.<\/p>\n

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