Scientific American: Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. That's what God told Adam and Eve in the King James Bible. Do Christians therefore have an obligation to tame the Earth and exercise "dominion' over all its plants and animals?
Not according to Pope Francis. In a speech on May 21, he noted that our planet is a great gift to humanity. Nature and the cosmos beyond are objects for wonder and awe--an awe that the Christian deity also shared after creating it.
That experience of...