Unwanted Commentary

I’ve heard it said before that, with the current state of affairs, if this is the best that God could come up with He isn’t any God that I want to have anything to do with. I think George Carlin said some form of this, but I’ve heard it said a number of times by those who need reasons to proclaim their atheism. This got me to thinking about stuff, namely if you take God out of your world view equation then you tend to put all your cards in the Science basket. So, wouldn’t it be fair to say, “If this is the best that science can do, is it something I really want to be a part of?”

Sure you can blame a lot of things on the doorstep of religion, God and the Church (whichever your prefer), but I don’t think its fair to ask of God “is this the best you can do?” and not look at science and technology and ask the same thing. Because for as many bad situations that God has gotten us into, if you want to look at that way, I don’t think they are as near as bad as many of the current problems we face, and most of those were caused by technology and science. Mechanized destruction of the planet, global warming, recession, gas prices, yadda yadda yadda…

Of course if technology and science created these problems then science and technology will save us, but wasn’t that the point of technology in the beginning. Science and the technology it has brought us was supposed to save us from the problems we had before, but it also introduced new problems for which it then had to solve, which then created more problems. It’s a circular, self-propagating situation, but I guess it’s what we have to live with, because even more so than God, I don’t think science and technology are going to go away. Nor would we want them to at this point.

And I’m not trying to be anti-technology here, I just feel that the spirituality of the human being is just as important as anything else, it is oft neglected, and I tire of those who find it convenient to lay all of humanities ills at the feet of God.