Existential Threats To Mankind Multiply

At this point it can be lost on no one, whether of a religious or secular bent, that the end of the world is at least a possibility in our own lifetimes. Of course, “the end” is perpetually “nigh” for a certain breed of doomsaying prophet, and they’ve been consistently wrong up until now...or we wouldn’t be here to worry about it today!

But the more powerful science has made man (who retains his flawed nature...just read any version of the Faust legend for a pretty incisive look at the trade-off we’ve made), and the more it’s enabled him to see the universe as it is, the more aware we become of what a fragile miracle life on this Earth is. Here are just a handful of the ways it could go down:

1. Thermonuclear war

This is the one that defined the era from 1945 (when the U.S. first “demonstrated” the bomb) or at least 1949 (when the rival Soviets, thanks to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, showed off theirs) to the ostensible end of the Cold War in 1991. For fifty years, the world lived under the constant shadow of atomic holocaust. Thank God we survived. Yet is our complacency, since the bipolar conflict gave way to chaos, really warranted? Nuclear weapons did not go away, and the U.S. and other countries remain locked in the logic of endless competitive new weapon development. Who even knows what they’re up to now, in our own country or abroad? Someday, surely, all these technological wonders of murder will be used.

2. Environmental collapse

Here is an issue that has been absurdly clouded by our left/right paradigm, the ridiculous “enemy of my enemy is my friend” logic that divides us so neatly into two parties. You’re not supposed to be a conservative and care about the environment. Well, it doesn’t take an etymological genius to see that “conservation” and “conservative” share a root. Personally, I’m an agnostic leaning toward believer in global warming. But to me that’s almost a moot point; we’ll certainly find out the truth if we just hold on.

The larger question is: even if this particular catastrophe is a false alarm, will there ever be any externality created by the behaviors of every-man-for-himself capitalism that will kill us if we don’t regulate it? If so, and the global warming debate is the dress rehearsal, I don’t want to see the show. We need to take the idea of “freedom” more seriously by soberly considering its limits. The tragedy of the commons is a real problem, and there must be some middle ground between Big Brother and anarchy.

3. Supervolcano / Meteor strike / Solar event

I have refrained in this post from postulating a Biblical apocalypse per se because I don’t pretend to be qualified to assess such a possibility. But it is possible to imagine a TEOTWAWKI scenario without invoking religious paradigms, that involves no direct human cause and is unpreventable. If the supervolcano under Yellowstone were to erupt, or a giant meteor were to appear and no Bruce Willis to stop it, or a solar flare lashed out and fatally irradiated our planet, it would mean that, whatever your beliefs, for all practical purposes, God had ended us. And it’s not only possible, it’s inevitable, especially now that the dream of human spaceflight is being mothballed: the sun will eventually (though we’re talking about billions of years here) engulf the planet, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

Rather than letting this fact, or the equally incontrovertible small-scale equivalent of our own certain death, cause us despair, we should allow it to throw into relief the tremendous preciousness of our lives, and live them as if they were fleeting, for they are.

Melissa Miller is a blogger and freelance education reporter. Bewildered by the proliferation of accredited online associate degrees? Melissa can help break it down for you. Send any feedback to melissamiller831@gmail.com.

10 Of The Most Disturbing Facts About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill

Now that BP's "top kill" solution has failed and oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico at a nightmarish pace, many people are wondering how bad things are ultimately going to get.  The truth is that the United States has never experienced an oil spill of this magnitude, and environmentalists are telling us that we are literally witnessing the final hours of the cherished ecosystems along the Gulf Coast.  Now, BP managing director Robert Dudley has come right out and admitted that it is possible that the oil flow from the leak will not completely stop until sometime in August.  If this leak does not stop until August, then life in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Gulf Coast will never be the same again during our lifetimes.  It is hard to even try to describe how much of a national tragedy this is.  The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is now far, far, far worse than Hurricane Katrina in terms of the lasting damage that it will cause. 

It is hard to even put into words how horrific this disaster is.  But the more one looks into this oil leak, the worse it gets.  In fact, there are a number of things that have recently come out about this leak that are beyond alarming.  The following are 10 of the most disturbing facts that have recently come out about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill....

#1) Transocean, the firm hired by BP to operate the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, has just announced that it will distribute $1 billion in dividends to shareholders even as oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico.

#2) Not only that, but Transocean also says it will make a $270 million profit on the insurance policy for the rig.

#3) A dire report prepared for Russian President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning that the dispersal agent being used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico is about to cause the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history.

#4) In fact, a large number of fishermen have already reported becoming seriously ill - and many of them believe that the chemicals that BP is using in the Gulf are to blame. 

#5) Matt Simmons, an energy adviser to former president George W. Bush, recently went on national television and claimed that "there's another leak, much bigger, 5 to 6 miles away" from the leaking riser and blowout preventer which everyone has been watching on the underwater cameras.

#6) Prominent oceanographers are pointing the finger at the Obama administration of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and of allowing BP to purposely deceive the public about the spill's true scope.

#7) Scientists are now telling us that the first oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has entered an ocean current that could take it over to Florida and up the east coast of the United States.

#8) One oil industry expert is saying that oil could pour into the Gulf of Mexico for up to 9000 days if the leak is not sealed.

#9) Local shrimpers in Louisiana are estimating that it will be seven years before they can set to sea again.

#10) In a very sick twist, some Internet gambling websites are now placing odds on what species will be first to become extinct as a result of all the oil flowing from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Ogallala Aquifer Is Drying Up Which Means The Great Plains Could Soon Turn Into The Great American Desert

America's breadbasket is facing an environmental crisis of unimaginable proportions and most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening.  The water that is used to irrigate much of America's Great Plains comes from a massive underground lake known as the Ogallala Aquifer.  This gigantic underground lake stretches from southern South Dakota through northern Texas, covering approximately 174,000 square miles. So what is the problem?  Well, it turns out that the Ogallala Aquifer is being drained at an alarming rate, and that means that the Great Plains could soon turn into the Great American Desert.  If that happens, American could very well see a devastating repeat of the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.

One of the scientists trying to get out the warning about this coming environmental nightmare is Dr. Kevin Mulligan, a professor of Economics and Geography at Texas Tech.  Dr. Mulligan and his students have mapped the Ogallala Aquifer extensively, and what they have found is quite alarming.  Not only have they found that the aquifer is much shallower in places than many originally thought, but they also have found that the aquifer is being drained much faster than anticipated.

In fact, Dr. Mulligan estimates that at peak times it is being drained at a rate of 800 gallons per minute.  Not only that, but they have also determined that many areas of the Great Plains that are dependent on the Ogallala Aquifer will run out of useable water by the year 2030.

Are you starting to get the picture?

In fact, Dr. Mulligan recently made the following statement about this crisis to a stunned audience....

"This will certainly mean the end of pivot irrigation in the region."

The reality is that the Great Plains have not always been a great agricultural area.
Way back in 1823, a U.S. government surveyor named Stephen Long was mapping out the Great Plains, and he was quite unimpressed by what he saw.  In fact, his geographer wrote the following in a report about the expedition....

I do not hesitate in giving the opinion that it is almost wholly unfit for cultivation, and of course, uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.

Well, thanks to irrigation, the Great Plains are not only "habitable", but that region is currently one of the great breadbaskets of the world.  What Long's mapping expedition referred to as "The Great American Desert" has been turned into an agricultural wonder thanks to an expanse of green circles defined by the reach of central pivot irrigation systems.

But all of that is changing as the Ogallala Aquifer rapidly becomes depleted.

David Brauer, program manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Ogallala Aquifer Program, recently told the following to AOL News.... 

"You go to areas where the aquifer has been depleted, [they] look pretty poor now."

So will we soon see the return of the infamous "black blizzards" that were so devastating during the days of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s?

To get an idea of how incredibly destructive these dust storms were, just consider the words of historian Donald Worster from his book entitled "The Dust Bowl"....

"The dust storms that swept across the southern plains in the 1930s created the most severe environmental catastrophe in the entire history of the white man on this continent. In no other instance was there greater or more sustained damage to the American land, and there have been few times when so much tragedy was visited on its inhabitants. Not even the Depression was more devastating, economically. And in ecological terms we have nothing in the nation’s past, nothing even in the polluted present, that compares."

Those days could soon be returning and most people who live in the Great Plains have absolutely no idea.

And all of this comes at a time when global food supplies are already stretched to their limit.

It is now being projected that global demand for food will more than double over the next 50 years. Today there are over 6 billion people on earth. Around 2040 or so there will be 9 billion people on earth. By the 2060s, there would be over 11 billion people on this planet.

So where in the world are we going to get the food to feed all of those people?

We take so much for granted today, but the reality is that disaster is just around the corner.  America's breadbasket is going to quickly turn to dust if something is not done, and if that happens it is going to have horrifying consequences that most of us could not even imagine.

Our environment does not have unlimited resources.  Once they are gone they are gone. 

So what are we going to do once America's breadbasket is gone?

Fluorescent Cats, Spider Goats And Human/Pig Hybrids

Thanks to advances in genetic modification, bizarre cross-species beasts are not just found in science fiction novels any longer. Now fluorescent cats, spider goats, human/pig hybrids and other incredibly weird creatures have actually been created by our scientists.

Would you like a cat that glows in the dark? They now exist! A genetically modified cat named Mr. Green Genes is the first fluorescent cat in the United States.

If you get one of these, you will never have to turn on the lights to find your cat.

This comes on the heels of some South Korean researchers creating a cat that glows red under ultraviolet light.

But if you think fluorescent cats are strange, just wait until you hear about the next creature we are going to talk about.....

"Spider goats".

Yes, animals that are part goat and part spider really exist. If you do not believe us now, you will believe by the end of this article.

The Canadian company Nexia has produced goats that are genetically modified to be part spider.

The genetic modification causes these spider goats to produce spider silk protein in their milk that is collected, purified and spun into super strong fibers.

These fibers are apparently more durable than Kevlar, more stretchable than nylon, and stronger than steel.

This company sees nothing wrong with messing with nature to harvest a substance that has very valuable industrial and military applications.

But we don't expect you all to take our word for it. The Telegraph, one of the leading newspapers in the U.K., featured this major article about spider goats, and according to them this has been going on for quite some time.

The funny thing is that these scientists are not even trying to hide it anymore. The following YouTube video is of a television report where you can see these "spider goats" and where scientists describe exactly how they create these spider goats and what they are doing with them:



Okay, you might say, we may be combining different types of animals, but we would never do this to humans.....

Right?

Wrong.

Human/pig hybrids will soon be grown inside of the United States.

This is being publicly announced and nobody is getting upset about it.

A new U.K. program being launched is going to produce pigs with human genes in them. These pigs will be grown in order to produce organs for transplants into humans.

So now we will have these entities that are part pig and part human openly being grown right out in the open.

And do you know exactly where these pigs are going to be "raised"?

In Missouri.

An abomination right in the heart of the United States.

Does this upset any of you?

It should.

But certainly we would never eat any of these bizarre creatures, right?

Don't be so sure.

The FDA has announced that the offspring of cloned animals could be in our food supply right now and that there is nothing that they can do about it.

Apparently they feel that it is perfectly safe and they aren't really worried about it.

Of course we eat tomatoes with roach genes in them and we eat corn with insecticide grown inside of it right now, so why should we be worried about some cloned animals, eh?

Well, you should be concerned.

In fact, if you live in the U.K., YOU can now be cloned without your consent.

Just imagine a world where the government uses your DNA without your consent to create human/animal hybrid creatures for bizarre scientific experiments. Does that sound like a plot to a far-fetched Hollywood film?

It's not.

The U.K. House of Commons has passed a law entitled the "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill" that allows human/animal embryos to be created through cloning which scientists may then use for "scientific" experiments.

Where will the scientists get the DNA they need for this cloning? Well, another provision in the bill allows scientists to take DNA from certain classes of people without their consent. So if you live in the U.K., and you belong to one of those classes of people, you can now be cloned without your consent.

Are you upset yet?

Does all of this seem very evil to you?

It should, because it is.

Did you know that the 3000 year old book of Jasher (a book of ancient history that is quoted in the Biblical books of Joshua and II Samuel) tells of evil genetic engineering that was going on in the days of Noah?

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"and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord"

-The Book of Jasher 4:18

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But have we learned from the past?

No.

Instead we are doing the exact same thing in our day, but we think we are so "advanced".

The truth is that we are only "advanced" in wickedness.

The news is getting stranger and more bizarre all the time, and the world that we once knew is slowly slipping away with each passing day.

U.S. Food Is Full Of Insect Heads, Maggots And Rat Excrement

Do you know what is in your food? Most Americans simply do not know that the FDA actually allows bug parts, maggots and rat excrement to be put into their food. The FDA only allows a small amount, but they do explicitly allow it.

You don't believe us?

Read it for yourself.

The FDA has published a pamphlet entitled “The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans” that tells producers exactly how many "natural contaminants" are allowed in our food.

Here are some examples of the allowable levels of "natural contaminants" that the FDA lists in the pamphlet.....

Canned Citrus Juices (such as orange juice) - 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

Cornmeal - Average of 25 or more insect fragments per 25 grams

Cranberry Sauce - Average mold count of 15%

Fig Paste - 13 or more insect heads per 100 grams of fig paste

Macaroni And Noodle Products - Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams

Mushrooms - Average of over 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms

Crushed Oregano - Average of 300 or more insect fragments per 10 grams

Peanut Butter - Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams

Spinach - Average of 50 or more aphids, thrips and/or mites per 100 grams

Tomato Paste, Pizza And Other Sauces - Average of 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams OR 15 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 100 grams

Wheat - Average of 9 mg or more rodent excreta pellets and/or pellet fragments per kilogram

Are you starting to get the idea?

I don't know about you, but I don't want ANY insect heads in my fig paste.

But, oh boy, if you get that 14th insect head into 100 grams of fig paste THEN you get into big trouble.

No wonder so many people are getting sick.

Even the ingredients in our food that are supposedly safe have been found to be quite the opposite.

Remember all those commercials recently that told us how safe and wonderful high fructose corn syrup is?

Well, it turns out that isn't the case after all.

In one stunning new study, almost half of the tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup contained significant levels of mercury. In addition, the same study found mercury in almost a third of 55 popular brand name food and beverage products where high fructose corn syrup is the first or second listed ingredient.

If you are not familiar with high fructose corn syrup, you should be. It is in thousands of food and beverage products. Just dig into your refrigerator and see how many products you find it in.

And it is chock full of mercury.

Mercury is a toxic heavy metal.

Among other things, mercury can cause serious brain damage, deafness and blindness. It is incredibly bad for you.

But high fructose corn syrup tastes so good!

And who cares if there are insect fragments in our peanut butter? After all, it tastes so good on a piece of toast!

The reality is that we live in a society where we can trust very few things any longer.

While many of us in the past enjoyed our food without any worries, the truth is that we are moving into a time when we are going to have to be careful what we eat.

U.K. Energy Experts Will Visit EVERY Home To "Help Them Go Green"

In the U.K., you are going to be "environmentally friendly" whether you like it or not. Under a new government plan, energy experts in the U.K. are going to visit every home in the country in order to "help them go green".

It is being called "The Great British Refurb" and it is part of a sweeping U.K. government plan to reduce carbon emissions.

Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, has announced that teams of "energy advisers" will go "house by house, street by street" to tell people what they must do in order to become eco-friendly.

It looks like Big Brother's cousin, "Green Brother", has arrived in the U.K.

So who is expected to pay for all of these improvements?

The homeowners.

Well, yes, there are going to be "loans" and "tax incentives", but in the end it is the homeowners who will be expected to foot the bill.

While becoming more "eco-friendly" is a goal that many people have, it is troubling the degree to which governments in the western world are now controlling our lives.

They tell us what kind of light bulbs we can use, how much tomato must be in our tomato sauce and increasingly even what we can say and think.

The truth is that those of us in the western world don't live in "free" societies any longer. We are regulated and controlled in a thousand different ways.

Even though it is now the year 2009, the reality is that every day we take one more step towards 1984.

Russian Scientists Create Goat-Humans That Produce Human Breast Milk

This story is not science fiction although it sure sounds like it. Russian scientists have actually created genetically engineered goat-human hybrid creatures that produce the same milk as a human mother.

Think about the ramifications of that for a moment.

These creatures are part goat and part human. Now, they are only a tiny part human, but they are still part human.

Of course the scientists try to make all of this tinkering with nature sound so noble.....

Dr Pyotr Vitsyaz of the Belarussian National Academy of Sciences said the following about the program: "The new programme will be aimed at producing milk with the human protein, as well as making medicines from it."

Apparently these "medicines" will be used to treat cancer and other various illnesses.

But is that any excuse for playing God?

How much human does a creature have to be before we consider it to be human?

Not that North American scientists aren't doing the same thing the Russians are doing.

Did you know that "spider goats" are actually being produced and "milked" as you read this?

If you do not believe us now, you will believe by the end of this article.

The Canadian company Nexia has produced goats that are genetically modified to be part spider.

The genetic modification causes these spider goats to produce spider silk protein in their milk that is collected, purified and spun into super strong fibers.

These fibers are apparently more durable than Kevlar, more stretchable than nylon, and stronger than steel.

This company sees nothing wrong with messing with nature to harvest a substance that has very valuable industrial and military applications.

But we don't expect you all to take our word for it. The Telegraph, one of the leading newspapers in the U.K., featured this major article about spider goats, and according to them this has been going on for quite some time.

The funny thing is that these scientists are not even trying to hide it anymore. The following YouTube video is of a television report where you can see these "spider goats" and where scientists describe exactly how they create these spider goats and what they are doing with them:



If all of this was not frightening enough, now amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home.

The "science" of genetic engineering has become so advanced that now people can create new lifeforms in their own kitchens and living rooms.

If governments around the world had any sense, they would outlaw this type of activity immediately.

Who knows what kind of plagues or environmental devastation one of these "amateur bio engineers" could cause by creating a new life form?

The truth is that whether it is professionals or amateurs, science has crossed a threshold that should not have been crossed.

Once the genie is out of the bottle it can never be put back. The dangers from all of this bioengineering will only be known as time moves forward, but we have the feeling that everyone is very much going to wish that humanity had never gone down this road.

How long is God going to put up with this kind of great evil?

Did y0u know that this kind of thing was going on before the Great Flood?

The book of Jasher, which is referred to in the Bible but which is not in the Bible itself, actually describes what men were doing in those days.....

"...and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth, all men and all animals..."
-Jasher 4:18

So according to the book of Jasher, wicked men were mixing different species together and this was provoking the Lord.

Nature itself had become incredibly corrupted, and it took the Flood to wipe this corruption off the face of the earth.

But now we are doing it again.

We are corrupting nature itself.

Will we ever learn?

What Will You Do When The World Begins To Run Out Of Water?

Once upon a time it was believed that humanity would always have an almost endless supply of fresh, clean water. Those days are gone. For the first time ever, ecologists are using the term "peak ecological water" to describe the approaching reality that the world is rapidly running out of clean fresh water.

While other environmental issues get the headlines, the danger of the world's looming water crisis is severely underreported by the world's media.

According to Dr. Peter Gleick, the president of the Pacific Institute, this crisis is one that people need to start paying attention to quickly: "Is there such a thing as ‘peak water’? There is a vast amount of water on the planet—but we are facing a crisis of running out of sustainably managed water."

In the same press release, Dr. Gleick also added this: "billions still lack the most basic water services."

It certainly doesn't help that some of the worst drought conditions in a generation are being experienced around the globe right now.....

*Australia recently experienced the worst drought it has ever recorded. In fact, according to the Australian government, the word "drought" makes farmers feel depressed and should be replaced with the word "dryness".

*California officials say that the drought in 2009 may be the worst in California history.

*Farmers in Argentina are struggling with the worst drought in 70 years.

*CNN reported that much of the U.S. is now experiencing a drought, and experts says that things could get much worse.

*In fact, 71 percent of Texas is in some stage of drought.

The extent of the problem facing all of us cannot be understated. The following are some very disturbing facts about the world's water crisis from water expert Maude Barlow.....

-Every eight seconds a child dies from drinking dirty water.

-A new desert the size of Rhode Island is created in China because of drought every single year.

-In the developing world, 90% of wastewater is discharged completely untreated into local rivers.

-By the year 2050, 1.7 billion people will live in "dire water poverty" and will be forced to relocate.

-Half of the world's hospital beds are occupied by people who have contracted waterborne diseases.

-The World Health Organization says contaminated water is the cause of 80% of all sickness and disease worldwide.

-Newborns in the global north consume 40 to 70 times more water than in the global south.

-In China, 80% of the major rivers are so polluted they don't support aquatic life at all.

-The women of South Africa collectively walk the equivalent distance to the moon and back 16 times a day for water.

What are you going to do when the world's fresh water really starts to run out?

During these end times it will be imperative that you have a reliable source of clean water for you and your family.

The truth is that the water crisis is getting worse every single day. If this problem is not addressed soon we will be facing a worldwide tragedy of a magnitude that is unimaginable.

God Is The Most Radical Environmentalist Of Them All

Today there are many voices telling us that we should take care of the environment, but humanity is doing more damage to the environment than ever. We are filling up our air, land, rivers and oceans with a never ending onslaught of toxins, chemicals, carcinogens, pharmaceutical drugs, plastics and human waste.

We are destroying the habitats of thousands of species and we are now seeing extinctions at an unprecedented pace.

We are raping the earth's resources and are depleting them at a staggering rate that much of humanity simply does not understand.

We are depleting the oceans and the topsoil so rapidly through overfishing and overfarming that the ability of humanity to feed itself in the future is seriously in question.

We are genetically modifying crops, plants, animals and almost anything else we can get our hands on. In doing so, we are permanently altering our ecosystem, our food supply and our genetic future.

If all of that wasn't enough, the use of depleted uranium munitions and other forms of modern weaponry is causing environmental destruction of a type that we have never seen before in human history.

All of this environmental destruction is devastating animal and plant life around the earth, it is causing much of humanity to get sick with a variety of frightening sicknesses and diseases, and it is bringing into serious question the ability of the human race to survive in the long term.

Do any of you still have any doubt that we are the most wasteful society in the history of the world?

For those of you who have ANY doubt that we are the most wasteful group of people in the history of the world, go here and watch this 20 minute video entitled "The Story of Stuff":

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

The reality is that we are gluttons and pigs and horrible caretakers of this planet.

But the God of the Bible is the ultimate environmentalist.

You don't believe me?

Consider some of the following examples.....

Exodus 23:10-11

"For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove."

Not even the most wacked out environmentalist would suggest making farmers rest their land once every seven years.

But can you say "overfarming"?

Can you say "depletion of the topsoil"?

Perhaps the God of the Bible knew what He was doing after all.

Leviticus 19:19

"Keep my decrees. Do not mate different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material."

Surely this command must be unreasonable!

So no polyester?

No nylon?

No genetic engineering?

No genetically modified crops?

Only 100 percent biodegradable clothing for everyone?

No clothing and other junk filling up landfills forever and ever?

Perhaps God knew EXACTLY what He was doing after all.

The reality is that God has known exactly what is best of us all along, and when we do our own thing we really, really mess things up.

And the truth is that the Bible says that God is going to judge those who destroy the earth....

Revelation 11:18

"The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great— and for destroying those who destroy the earth."

The truth is that we all need to repent for our greedy and selfish ways.

God entrusted this earth to mankind and told us to take care of it.

But we didn't.

We have raped the earth.

Not only that, but we have broken God's laws in just about every way imaginable.

We have all sinned over and over and over, and we all stand guilty before God.

But the good news is that there is forgiveness for our sins if we are willing to receive it, and that forgiveness comes through Jesus Christ:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1049/1049_01.asp