{"id":6723,"date":"2017-09-06T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2017-09-06T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:54:19","slug":"the-metaphysics-of-meteorology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6723","title":{"rendered":"The metaphysics of meteorology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silly me.  I always thought the weather had something to do with the unevenly energized, 7-mile thick layer of compressible fluid that is in constant motion over the earth&#8217;s rough surface.<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; what do you know?  Turns out &#8212; according to no less an authority than Ken Ham, a <i>bona fide<\/i> Holy Man &#8212; the weather is actually an instrument for punishment of the wicked.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Devastating Hurricanes-reminder we live in a fallen groaning world as a result of our sin against a Holy God-it&#39;s our fault not God&#39;s fault <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JwAJWN8oQ0\">pic.twitter.com\/JwAJWN8oQ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Ham (@aigkenham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aigkenham\/status\/905382966775435267\">September 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">World we live is not original world God made. God made a perfect world-we now live in a fallen world cause of sin- look forward to new earth <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MUQw5eKikn\">pic.twitter.com\/MUQw5eKikn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Ham (@aigkenham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aigkenham\/status\/905383459069329408\">September 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Secularists like to mock the Christian God when we see tragedy cause they don&#39;t want to acknowledge our sinful state before a Holy God<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Ham (@aigkenham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aigkenham\/status\/905387673782771714\">September 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In a country where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/170822\/believe-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">42% of the population<\/a> believes in young earth creationism, meaning they&#8217;re ignoramuses who listen to buffoons like Ham, I guess it&#8217;s no wonder that we can&#8217;t reach a decision to do something about climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silly me. I always thought the weather had something to do with the unevenly energized, 7-mile thick layer of compressible fluid that is in constant motion over the earth&#8217;s rough surface. Well &#8230; what do you know? Turns out &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6723\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}