Religion has
brought us nothing new in two-thousand years.
Just the same old story and a demand of obedience. The human race is where it is today, because
of science. Religion drove us into the Dark Ages and
science brought us out.
Religions have
caused more suffering among the human race than any other factor.
Science has
brought more comforts and better health, while moving us into a technological
future.
Scientist and
mathematicians are special people. They
live in a world of logic, while most of us live in a world of emotion. To most of us, emotion dictates what is true.
In the
scientific world theories are rigorously tested by peer review until a theory
is held highly likely statistically.
Even then, one failed attempt at reproducing accepted results will
invalidate the whole theory, and send it back to critical review.
Neil
deGrasse Tyson says that science is true whether or not you believe it.
Science is
neither good or bad. It all depends on
how the human race chooses to apply it.
In August of
1945 two-hundred-thousand babies, children, women, men and old people were annihilated when
nuclear bombs were dropped on two Japanese cities.
Yet today we
have nuclear medicine that treats and cures hundreds of thousands of people
suffering with cancer and other diseases.
Sometimes
the problem with science is that when something is found possible, even if ethically
questionable, some scientist will eventually experiment with it.
We stand on that
precipice now with CRISPEN – the new gene-splicing technique. In a
very short time we will have the ability to design animals, including children…
a master race? Should we consider
splicing human genes into our nearest relatives – chimpanzees; perhaps language? At some point it will be done, and in the
name of science discovery.
Science is
our savior, but because we are human it can also be our destruction.
Science is
neither good nor bad. People are good or
bad.
Religion in irrelevant.
the Ol'Buzzard
