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[Another fundie has shared an article about rising carbon dioxide levels.]

This whole CO2/man caused global warming thing is pure hokum. I'm an environmental engineer and I have yet to see any credible links to CO2 and man caused global warming. Al Gore and the media have glommed onto this ridiculousness and have completely bamboozled the public at large. If you want to see the real "cause" of cyclical global temperatures simply look at the sun..it's as simple as that. Sadly, SO many people have been duped into believing that carbon (CO2) is causing all the catastrophic global weather. Because so many have been duped they actually think that they, as exhalers of CO2, are part of the problem; their "carbon footprint" must be reduced to help solve the problem. It's unadulterated balderdash! The door has been kicked open for environmental regulators to control what we all do by legislating fossil fuel usage. It's just a matter of time before we're all paying a carbon tax to help mitigate our share of the problem that we're causing. This is just one more way a math/science-ignorant public are getting duped and led down the primrose path. As Christians, for us to believe this malarkey is to believe that God wasn't smart enough to anticipate the mass balance of critical elements like oxygen, Carbon, and the like. Are we really to believe that God's creation is somehow out of control and that he blew it in His design for all that He knew He Himself would allow mankind to learn vis a vis technological advancements? Are we really to believe that the very gas that green plants need to survive and photosynthesize O2 for us is actually a pollutant? Really? Unbelievable!! Don't believe the lie!! Just take a look at how radical environmental regulations are damaging the agricultural economy of California. Unreal!!! This is all about the radical environmental movement on the left to further destroy America by making it nearly impossible for manufacturers to be competitive, not to mention building new power plants. Have environmental regulations improved our air, water, and land? Yes! But it's out of control and being used as a weapon against American capitalism, our economy, and freedoms. The whole man caused global warming bologney was shown to be hokum several years ago but appears to be re-emerging. What we're seeing on the earth regarding the earth's ecological systems appearing to be coming apart at the seams is nothing but prophecy playing out right before our eyes.

[A fundie's response to a recent theory on the Big Bang.]

I actually like this theory, and I’m a young earth creationist!

One reason is that it weakens string theory, which I hate because it can never be test and requires multiple universes.

Another reason is that during the inflation period this theory requires/predicts the early universe is fluid. Just as described in Genesis chapter one. “—and darkness was upon the face of the deep / abyss.”

The third reason is the Zero-energy universe, where the universe is eternal and created out of nothing. Just as the scriptures state.
• A generic property of inflation is the balancing of the negative gravitational energy, within the inflating region, with the positive energy of the inflation field to yield a post-inflationary universe with negligible or zero energy density.
• Due to quantum uncertainty energy fluctuations such as electron and its anti-particle a positron can arise spontaneously out of vacuum space but must disappear rapidly. The lower the energy of the bubble, the longer it can exist. A gravitational field has negative energy. Matter has positive energy. The two values cancel out provided the universe is completely flat [inflation produces a flat universe].In that case the universe has zero energy and can theoretically last forever.
• Stephen Hawking notes in his 2010 book The Grand Design: "If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing? That is why there is a law like gravity. —Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can.

Some initial conditions of the inflation theory.
• During the initial “creation phase, matter and energy were inseparable. The four primary forces of the universe were also a united force. As tiny fractions of a second passed, the universe expanded rapidly. Cosmologists refer to the universe's expansion as inflation. The universe doubled in size several times in less than a second. As the universe expanded, it cooled and matter and energy decoupled. Cosmologists call this baryogenesis. Baryonic matter starts to form. It is the kind of matter we can observe. The most familiar baryons are the protons and neutrons that make up most of the mass of the visible matter in the universe.
• A period of particle cosmology followed the quantum age (inflation phase). The unified force broke down into components. The forces of electromagnetism and weak nuclear force split off. Photons outnumbered matter particles, but the universe was too dense for light to shine within it.

Then God said “Let there be light”.