Global Warming
The latest weather talk is about the extremes of droughts and floods, melting polar ice caps and snowless ski resorts, and whatever other effects they can blame on GLOBAL WARMING (the observed fact that worldwide temperature averages are getting higher with time). Is this Global Warming being caused by pollutants that our industrialized society is producing, or is it a natural cycle of the Earth as a planet?

Regardless of the cause and effect, we are so short-sighted about our own existence as humans. We must recognize that the exact location of our God-created planet is such that we are neither too far from the sun so that all the planet is frozen including our life-giving gases, nor are we too close to the sun, so that our life-giving water would all be evaporated. If average temperatures changing by 0.1 degree is an evidence of Global Warming, what would altering the apogee or perigee of our orbit do to our existence?

Some scientists postulate that by numerical analysis, having extreme numbers of stars must imply that there are other earth-class planets somewhere in the universe, which somehow evolved into just the right amount of mass and thus gravity, the right location to keep the temperatures moderate enough for liquid water and gaseous oxygen, the right mixture of chemicals to evolve life. I wonder if they have ever done a numerical analysis of the odds of that happening even once?

Why is NASA so interested in exploring our near neighbor Mars, which in its present location and other conditions could not support life as we know it? Is the prospect for them that there might be some subterranean water deposits enough to justify spending billions of dollars to explore another lifeless planet? I guess if my personal salary were dependent on convincing someone else to pay taxes to let me fantasize ways to explore the nearest places in the universe, I would want to push the same agenda.

Even with all our earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, wildfires, mudslides, meteorites, and other natural disasters, we are still the most blessed to be alive for even a few years up to maybe 100 years on a planet which the Lord created just for us to live. What must the next creation (new heaven and new earth being worked on by Jesus since He left the Earth) be like? My mind cannot conceive the glories of the eternal existence of believers in Jesus Christ.