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Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Noah fiddles while Creation floods.
By Anthony Cox
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On Noah Count brood over your wrongdoing.Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Misquoting Aldous Huxley
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I wrote some time ago about a recurring theme in Hollywood.
The theme is the inevitable catastrophic consequences when humans interfere
with nature. Russell Crowe’s portentous Noah continues this theme but with a fascinating twist. In Noah
nature is given a religious quality with all the moral status that comes with
that but without a traditional religious God and the compromise which comes
from that in respect of the clash between science and received knowledge from
such a God. In effect nature has been mystified but God has either been subject
to Deicide or replaced.
Man-made global warming [AGW] was always a reworking of the Eden
myth parable where the paradise of nature
was despoiled by the use of fossil fuels. And just like Eden where God banished
Adam and Eve to a harsh unnatural world AGW says the backlash from nature to
humanity’s abuse of nature will be equally harsh.
In Christianity there has been a dispute about AGW. On one
side is the more progressive forms which accept AGW and interpret the role of Christianity
as assisting the people who will be affected by AGW. The 2006
Evangelical Climate Initiative for instance regarded the IPCC as foundational
in developing its position on AGW; sort of like an updated version of the 10
Commandments.
On the other side has been the traditional Christian view as
typified by the Cornwall
Alliance. This approach took the literal Biblical view that God is sovereign over Creation and therefore
humans can do no permanent damage to what God has created. This view also advocates
that God entrusted the earth to human dominion and we should not be afraid of
economic development or other uses of human creativity.
Until Noah floated along Hollywood had favoured
the progressive Christian view: AGW was real and there was always serious
Biblical like retribution if nature was compromised. The problem was Hollywood
has never been a Christian or even a religious place so the moral base for the
punishment flowing from interfering with nature could not be sourced in
traditional Christianity. And AGW is a product of Green ideology which is
determinedly non-Christian and claims to be the pinnacle of “settled science”.
But the modern
Green movement also greatly values spirituality, a nebulous concept which hints
at hidden meaning and depth beyond what science can quantify without invoking
the conventional God as maker which Christianity offers. The solution for the
Greens of having AGW “settled science” with a spiritual quality is the Gaia
hypothesis invented by James Lovelock. Gaia is a theory of homoeostasis where natural
organisms on the planet regulate living conditions to produce relative
stability. Gaia is both scientific and spiritual without being Christian or
religious.
Given this
inherent stability produced by the Gaia it is easy to see how a view of
humankind disrupting this process can be similar to the Eden myth.
It is also easy
to see how the Gaia can become pseudo God like. In fact prominent AGW
scientists like Tim Flannery and Clive Hamilton invest Gaia with God-like
properties. Hamilton says:
So I think where we’re going is to begin to see a Gaian earth in its ecological, cybernetic way, infused with some notion of mind or soul or chi, which will transform our attitudes to it away from an instrumentalist one, towards an attitude of greater reverence. I mean, the truth is, unless we do that, I mean we seriously are in trouble, because we know that Gaia is revolting against the impact of human beings on it.
Tim Flannery’s
“reverence” is even more startling. Flannery says Gaia will become a super-organism where there will be no outside.
But any
similarity to Eden or God is coincidental and unintended. In Crowe’s Noah this super-organism has replaced the Old Testament God completely while
still retaining the old God’s values and certainly his stern approach to
dealing with human waywardness.
The super-organism in Noah is not called God, it is a Creator.
In fact God is not mentioned in Noah
and the Creator has not created the Earth for humanity’s use and exploitation
as the Cornwall Alliance argues. The Earth is not for use by humans at all and
the Flood is the Creator’s way of ridding his natural creation of the
pestilence and blight of humans. As Noah
says: creation will be left alone — safe.
Beautiful.
This is cinematic
misanthropy on a grand scale. Misanthropy is at the heart of AGW; it says the
Earth would be better off without humans. We see many examples of AGW supporters expressing this view about humans. The
view is the antithesis of Christianity, in both its progressive and traditional
forms, because both forms still regard humans as part of God’s Creation while
quibbling about humanity’s role and importance in that Creation.
The Creation in Noah is a human free zone, the ultimate
expression of misanthropy. And the Flood is a cleansing of humanity from the
Earth. There are a number of puzzling ironies here.
Firstly, if
humans are not part of Creation why are we here? Are we the outside which Flannery says doesn’t
exist? Did the Creator create Gaia or vice-versa, or are they the same thing? Lovelock doesn’t know and he invented the idea.
Secondly, if
humans are part of Creation but need to be destroyed, that indicates a moral
purpose for the Creation which humans have contravened. Is the moral purpose
merely the sustaining of the Creation? If humans have to be removed to ensure
the sustainability of the Creation does that mean humans are more powerful than
the Creator? If so, maybe it’s time we started fighting back just like the
heroine does in Prometheus. Not going to see Noah would be a good start.
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