Rush Limbaugh’s Shockingly Stupid Argument About God and Climate Change

Yesterday Rush Limbaugh – a proponent of creationism and intelligent design – told his radio listeners that he doesn’t ‘believe’ in climate change because his God wouldn’t have created humans with a capacity to destroy our own environment.

As scientific evidence for this assertion, he explained that plants need carbon dioxide to produce oxygen for humans; thus, there is no way that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could be a harmful thing.

Who needs science, when you have such astute Republicans! I wonder if Rush would be willing to be sealed in a carbon dioxide-filled chamber with a lovely bouquet of flowers to prove his point?

I hereby rest my case. Evolution does not progress towards human perfection.

Since his graduation from Kent State University where he studied biology and geology, John Humphreys has worked in a variety of scientific fields ranging from paleontology to conservation. Currently h ...read more