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Posted by willD on Thu Jan 6 01:48:14 2005, in response to Re: Not everyone's sorry for the tsunami, posted by vengence on Wed Jan 5 23:25:22 2005. Stop a natural disaster? How foolish....I don't take it for rote, but a science fiction novel supposedly co-authored by Arthur C Clarke and a lesser known author called Richter Ten. At one of the key plot points in the story there was a proposal by the protagonist to place somewhere like 3-4 gigatons of nuclear weapons in a mine 10,000-30,000 ft below the Salton Sea and thereby fuse the San Andreas Fault. Admittedly it's probably a completely load, since the molten earth supposedly created by the nuclear blast would merely act to pin the plates together for a limited time. Potentially this would result in an even bigger earthquake down the line. What does a computer have to do with GOD being real...?Didn't GOD give Man a mind to build? DIDN'T HE give Man hands to manipulate objects? Did he not give us the skills to build cities and the like? At what point do we have god-like powers? At the rate we're going, we'll have a rather impressive cadre of technological abilities certainly rivaling those that the Bible purports belonged to god. Often people of religious background are opposed to technological progress, but it's fairly certain that within 100 years we could be looking at industrial scale transmutation of elements on a subatomic level, the ability to change the other bodies within this solar system to suit out need, and perhaps the very ability to travel beyond pluto to other star systems. And when we reach that point, assuming there is a god, will he accept us as his equals as a father must eventually accept the son which has overshadowed him? And if god will not accept us as equals, then why are you challenging his rule by using a computer? If it's wrong for us to go around and try to make our own stars, or to change the planets to suit our needs because it treads upon the powers which denoted god, then how is it any less wrong for you to utilize electric power to run your computer? But tell me something...Look at what "Man Control" DID to the world... It could be argued that the Cold War was a 'humanist war.' Two nations faced off with the greatest weapons ever concieved, each of which represented more firepower than had been used in every war from 5000BC onward. Both nations had the ability to destroy the world many times over. And yet we continue to exist. Because those two nations were not facing off on a religious basis, both saw the utter foolishness of using those weapons. It could be argued that a religiously lead country would feel their god would protect them from their enemies weapons and as such would launch a disasterous preemptive strike. Rationality is something mankind has most definitely developed on his own, and that is a very good thing. |
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