Dear Tweeters,
I'm not religious and don't believe in creationism but I like to keep
communication channels open with people who are/do. Creationism seems to
offer at least as strong a basis for environmentalism as evolution does:
After all, if God created the Rufous Browed Peppershrike that's a pretty good
argument against letting it go extinct.

Also, I think there's a lot of confusion both among Christians and
non-Christians about the famous "multiply" and "dominion" quotes in Genesis.
Actually these quotes offer decent advice from an environmental perspective
since multiply should be seen in the context that God asked the whales and
birds and invertebrates to multiply before and in the same tenor in which he
asked humans to multiply. The dominion quote can and probably should be seen
as demanding people take the responsibility of stewardship. I used the "And
God created the Great whales, etc," quote in my last ad in the Seattle
Times because I think it's a beautiful plea for biodiversity. I didn't get
much feedback on it, perhaps because the ad staff buried the Bible-quoting ad
while it had highlighted my non-Bible-quoting ad the week before, presumably
in an effort to save me from embarrassment in the most secular city in the
country.

Two other Bible notes. Does everybody know that the Bible subtly endorses
Eve's decision and contains a clue that Miriam, not Moses, led the Hebrews
away from the drowning Egyptian soldiers and up into Hoopoe habitat?
--Ed Newbold Beacon Hill