A researcher co-authored an August study claiming that “faith-based” arguments are a great way to spread the gospel of global warming among religious people.
His evidence consisted of his own daughter’s lecture on global warming to Christian students.
Dr. Doug Hayhoe, a researcher at Tyndale University in Canada, relied heavily on a lecture delivered by his daughter Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist, to students at an evangelical Christian college. Doug Hayhoe’s study was peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Geoscience Education.
His study found a “significant increase in the pro-climate beliefs for students in all three groups,” after the researcher listened to his daughter’s lecture.
“These findings affirm the value of climate education among evangelicals; highlight the potential utility of such presentations, both recorded and live; and point to opportunities for research in the area of faith-based climate communication,” Doug Hayhoe and his co-author found.
Katharine Hayhoe is well known for her use of religion to convince evangelical Christians to back liberal policy solutions to global warming. Maclean’s magazine profiled Katharine Hayhoe’s tour around Texas in 2015 to convince religious people of global warming.
Maclean’s described how Katharine Hayhoe used a temperature graph that dissolved into a white screen with the words from Paul’s second apostle to Timothy: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Katharine Hayhoe was listed as one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2014 for her role as an “environmental evangelist.” She also wrote a book with her evangelical husband on the issue.
Interestingly enough, Katharine Hayhoe credited her father “for the fact she has never experienced a conflict between faith and science,” according to Faith Today.
“My father just loved to understand things, whether it was a verse in the Bible or a wildflower in the woods,” she said. “He regarded both as an expression of God and taught us that we can learn about God through the Bible, and equally through nature and creation and the world around us.”
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