Theos-Talk Archives (January 2006 Message tt00258)

1. Science might have facilitated our life and health, but it has 
taken away the wonders of life: sunsets have come to be perceived 
as wavelengths and frequencies; the mysteries of the universe have 
been reduced to mathematical equations; even the self-worth of 
humans has been demolished.

Cass: Yes science has facilitated our life and health by giving us longer existences.  I do not agree with the second sentence as Plato saw the universe in much the same way, geometrically.

2. The technology that seems to unite us actually divides us. We 
might be collected electronically across the globe, yet we are 
alone. Violence, division, fracture, betrayal and skepticism have 
become the new values of modern life, and cynicism and demand for 
proof the paths of the seeker. Nothing is sacred before science. 
As science probes deeper and deeper into God's creations in a 
divide-and-conquer manner, it raises only more questions than it 
answers.

Cass: This should not be laid at the feet of Science.  It is everyones duty to probe the laws of nature.

3. The ancient war between science and religion is over, and 
science has won, though not fairly. In the radical reorientation 
of our society today, the old signposts of religion have become 
meaningless. In the virus-like and exponential growth of science, 
we are spinning out of control as our faiths are left behind, with 
the result, we have started seeking spiritual truths in UFOs and 
channeling. The modern soul is lonely and tormented, as it accepts 
no meaning in anything beyond technology.

Cass:  The early church fathers did this when they separated science as being an integral part of religion.

4. Science is destroying, not saving us. The church might have 
tried to slow the unremitting march of science, occasionally with 
misguided means, but its intention has always been of benevolence. 
Look around you and understand that science has only brought in 
chaos and pollution, its promises never being kept.

Cass:  The bible, the Quran and whatever the Jewish Bible is have done this very successfully for the past 2000 years.

5. Science, that seeks to replace God today, lacks accountability. 
It never warns us about the bad part of its technology. And when 
technology overshoots its benevolent mark and threatens to destroy 
the world, it is the church, the Pope, who tours around nations, 
calling for restraint. And yet science proclaims the church is 
ignorant and spurns it, whenever it tries to reach out to the 
people affected by science.

Cass:  The argument put forward by the Church of a personal entity whose name is God is ridiculous and should be laughed at.

6. Actually it is science which is more ignorant: in the same way 
that the man who pays scant respect for the awesome power of 
lightning is more ignorant than the man who respects it but cannot 
define lighning. When science looks at the heavens through its 
telescopes and proclaims that the slightest change in the atomic 
levels of the universe would have rendered it as a lifeless mist,
can't it find the hand of God in this grand scheme of life and 
matter? Believing in mathematical impossibility rather than a 
greater power signifies only spiritual bankruptcy.

Cass: More ranting

7. If science does not believe in God, it must at least belive 
that when it abdicates its faith in a greater power, it abandons 
the sense of accountability, which creates only chaos and 
destruction. Whereas faith, all faiths, insist on accountability: 
to each other, to ourselves and to a higher truth, which is why it 
is voice of guidance to the common people to their simple souls, 
even though the faiths and its followers might be flawed.

Cass:  Accountability is not a belief in God, but a belief in the god within each and every one of us.  As I previously stated, more religious dogma, separating state and church.

My thoughts
Cass

Regards,
saidevo

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