Linguistically the word evangelical is rooted in the Greek word evangelion and refers to those who preach and practice the good news; historically the word refers to those renewing groups in the church which from time to time have called the church back to the evangel; theologically it refers to a commitment to
classical theology as expressed in the Apostles» Creed; and sociologically the word is used of various contemporary groupings of culturally
conditioned evangelicals (
i.e., fundamentalist evangelicals, Reformed evangelicals, Anabaptist evangelicals, conservative evangelicals).
In doing so, they fail to recognize the important distinction between the operational hurricane forecasting problem (a
classical initial value problem) and the boundary value problem addressed in KT04, where one is concerned with the maximum hurricane intensity that is possible for a given set of largescale environmental
conditions (
i.e., a climatological or statistical distribution of maximum intensities).