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Job 37:11-12
11 Also by watering [riy] he wearieth [tarach] the thick cloud [`ab]: he scattereth [puwts] his bright ['owr] cloud [`anan]:
12 And it is turned [haphak] round about [mecab] by his counsels [tachbulah]: that they may do [po`al] whatsoever he commandeth [tsavah] them upon the face [paniym] of the world [tebel] in the earth ['erets]. KJV-Interlinear
11 'Also with moisture He loads the thick cloud; He disperses the cloud of His lightning. 12 'And it changes direction, turning around by His guidance, That it may do whatever He commands it On the face of the inhabited earth. NASB
Does the weather or clouds or lightning rise up, build up, travel, occur, in some haphazard way? Are they all products of some random or chance interaction of the earths elements? No.
The images used here are one of a captain of a ship, setting his course by sail and rudder, and by the actions of the captain, the ship pursues its course, not by actions independent of the ship.
The ship was constructed in accordance with a design. It has sailing mechanisms. It has a rudder, it has an engine of some sort, and fuel, for power. Whether that engine was an oar, a sail, or diesel power, is irrelevant. The ship has a design and was constructed to function in a certain fashion.
Likewise the weather has a design. God created the weather, and it is by His design that the weather patterns occur.
Weather does not happen by chance. God designed the engine, the fuel, and all of the features of weather, and it functions by Gods direction in accordance with His design.
And no, weather was not designed and then let loose to function in history under its own guidance.
'He commands it.' God commands in an active role, the activity of weather. The ship has a rudder, but the rudder does not have its own mind, the captain steers the ship by its wheel and rudder. The ship does not steer itself. The ship does not decide its destination, does not plot its own course, does not take on its own supplies. The captain (or his crew) does all of that.
Nature was invented by God, but was not released into the wild to function by chance or circumstances.
When Adam and Eve lived in the Garden, all was perfect. When they sinned, everything changed.
When Noah lived in the world prior to the flood, the world had never seen rain, but the phenomenal corruption of humanity brought the rains and floodwaters.
When Jesus Christ returns at the Second Advent, the world will, prior to that, be on the brink of self-destruction, but with the power of only His word, the world will change back into an environment of perfection.
Could global climate changes, famines, deserts and such really be caused by sin, and not fossil fuels?
