With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

As the popularity of nature documentaries attest, a feature of God's image bearers is

to enjoy and even marvel at the glory of God's creation.

And yet, some of the loudest voices that call for conservation efforts are philosophical

naturalists, a worldview that lacks any basis for conserving anything.

If there's no God, there's no way the world should be.

And it wasn't created for any larger purpose.

It lacks intrinsic value, and humans are just the dominant species, who because of their

might should simply have their way with it.

Author Kirsten Berkett put it this way, some of us like our collections of atoms and

the forms of trees and meadows, others prefer cars and fuel, who's to say which is better.

While only God can, when he pronounced his creation good, he embedded the creation

with moral purpose, and then created human beings to cultivate it, tending to the earth as

an act of worship, and part of our purpose.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.