WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah has a new book out, “The Restitution of All Things” — published by WND, natch, which means this is effectively a vanity project — which claims to provide “a clear picture of what the coming kingdom of God will be like.” In his Jan. 31 column, Farah offers an, er, creative interpretation of climate change apparently taken from his book:
I used to be a “denier,” as those who sacrifice their reasoning ability at the altar of Big Government power label skeptics of man-made, catastrophic climate change.
If you asked me, do you believe in it? I would have said no.
But the deeper I get into the study the Scriptures, I have to admit, my opinion has changed. I do believe man’s behavior on the Earth can have catastrophic consequences – and, indeed, has in the past.
However, before the climate-change lobby begins celebrating a convert to the cause, let me say unequivocally that my acceptance of past, current and future changes in the climate – including those with potentially catastrophic results – has nothing whatsoever to do with an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to the activity of mankind.
Instead, I have concluded that previous climate catastrophes have been the result of another activity of man – the commission of sin.
While Al Gore and the carbon-phobes have no evidence to support their dire predictions of imminent doom other than computer modeling, those who take my position actually have more than 6,000 years of biblical and historical patterns along with the inerrant Word of God.
So maybe it’s time for a new bumper sticker – “SIN, NOT CARBON, CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE.”
Blame Adam and Eve for this, Farah says:
We know the Garden of Eden was the perfect climate for mankind because Adam and Eve didn’t even need clothes. There’s really nowhere on the planet today where you would be comfortable 365 days a year without any duds whatsoever – and that’s putting aside the shame factor. Even in Hawaii you have fluctuating temperatures that would make nudists uncomfortable from time to time.
When Adam and Eve committed the first sin by eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good an Evil, everything changed – including the climate.
Farah also interprets the flood of Noah-and-his-ark fame as producing climate change: “People didn’t live as long as the generations before Noah. Perhaps the oxygen content of the atmosphere was reduced.” He even called the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah an “environmental disaster.” He concludes that “God did not forsake intervening in the climate when sin ran amok.”
Clearly, science is not a big interest for Farah.
We have to wonder: Does Farah view being reduced to beg for money from his readers last year to keep WND afloat as a sign from God that perhaps he was not on the right path with with his falsehood-laden war against Obama?