Why I Believe they Missed It.

By:  Dale Weckbacher

Due to the long hours of the tax season and since I work as a tax preparer, I will only be making one posting to this blog per week over the next few weeks.  I hope to return to two postings per week after February 15 as the tax season slows down.  Now for this weeks posting.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

NKJV

Genesis 1:1, the first verse in both the Jewish Tora and the Christian Bible lays the foundational truth upon which Christianity and Judaism are built, that God created all we see around us.  Some may argue that God did not create the laptop upon which I am writing this posting.  However, I would argue that God created the raw materials that went into its manufacture as well as the creation of the people whose knowledge went into the creation of the hardware and software I am using. 

This week, meteorologists warned the northeast of the United States about the pending storm of the century, perhaps the millennium.  (1)  However, the day after what meteorologists hyped as a storm bringing total destruction and devastation, these same meteorologists were apologizing for missing it.  (2)   Let us take a moment to look at why I believe they missed it for I believe there are valuable lessons to learn. 

1)      Lack of a belief in God – When one lacks a belief in a supreme creator; it is easy to be deceived into believing mankind has the ability and power to destroy the earth.  Granted God commands us to be good stewards of what he has provided for us (Genesis 1:15), including the planet we live on, but I also believe that God will stop mankind short of total planetary destruction.  I therefore seek to live responsibility when it comes to the environment but do not buy into the fear pedaled by the environmentalists and their anti-capitalist political agenda.  Instead, I believe in an all-powerful, almighty God who will not allow His creation to be obliterated. 

2)      The politicization of science – Once upon a time science used the scientific method to arrive at conclusions.  This method involved asking a question, doing background research, constructing a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, analyzing the data and drawing a conclusion, and communicating the results.  (3)   Unfortunately, since most scientific research now functions on government grants, scientists now begin with a conclusion predicting some cataclysmic disaster so they can secure funding for their research.  Of course, to continue receiving this funding they must insure the conclusions of their research agree with the conclusion with which they began.  In our judicial system this would be like the presumption of guilt until proving innocence except for the fact that in scientific research, arriving at a conclusion disproving the original conclusion would be the end of funding and thus the end of research. 

3)      An anti-capitalist agenda with the goal of the destruction of the free market – For some time in our society we have witnessed the vilification of the wealthy.  We witness it in our television shows and movies.  The progressive income tax system in the United States insures the rich pay a much greater share of taxes.  (4)  Environmentalists also have an anti-capitalist agenda and through the regulatory power of agencies like the EPA enact onerous regulations on industry virtually making it impossible for them to operate profitably.  (5)   President Obama himself when running for president stated that he was not against someone opening up a coal plant but warned them that they would go bankrupt.  (6)

Meteorologists who have no belief in a supreme creator, who have been politicized in order to maintain their funding or jobs, and who have an anti-capitalist agenda wanted there to be a cataclysmic storm on the east coast this week.  This caused them to begin with the conclusion of a cataclysmic storm when they saw a storm coming in without conducting research to determine if their conclusions were accurate.  Instead, they relied on computer models, models skewed by programmers with the same political anti-capitalist agenda.  The result was another foolish prediction of global catastrophe that did not come true. 

God, the creator of the universe and the earth we live on is in control and will not let mankind destroy his creation.  The missed prediction of a weather catastrophe this week on the east coast of the United States is just another demonstration of the foolishness of man trying to predict what God is going to do.       

1. Shoichet, Michael Pearson and Catherine E. 'Historic' storm set to slam Northeast; airlines cancel flights. www.cnn.com. [Online] CNN, January 26, 2015. [Cited: January 30, 2015.] http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/26/us/weather-storm/.

2. CBS News. Blizzard 2015: Meteorologist apologizes for "big forecast miss". www.cbs.com. [Online] CBS News, January 27, 2015. [Cited: January 30, 2015.] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/blizzard-2015-meteorologist-apologizes-for-big-forecast-miss/.

3. Science Buddies. Steps of the Scientific Method. www.sciencebuddies.org. [Online] [Cited: January 30, 2015.] http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml.

4. Worstall, Tim. The US Tax System Just Keeps On Getting More And More Progressive. www.forbes.com. [Online] Forbes, January 8, 2015. [Cited: January 30, 2015.] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/08/the-us-tax-system-just-keeps-on-getting-more-and-more-progressive/.

5. Institute for Energy Research. SMOKING GUN: New Documents Reveal Obama's Anti-Capitalist Agenda. instituteforenergyresearch.org. [Online] January 22, 2014. [Cited: January 30, 2015.] http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/press/smoking-gun-new-documents-reveal-obamas-anti-capitalist-agenda/.

6. WSAZ Charleston. Obama Called for Bankrupting Coal Fired Power Plants. www.youtube.com. [Online] WSAZ Charleston, November 3, 2008. [Cited: August 28, 2012.] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF7Qm31LIDM.