Is Science Correct About All?
College had me take a ton of science courses for my major. Courses like Chemistry, biology, botany, astronomy etc. I did well in all of them. College for me, however, was a long time ago when scientists were hanging their hats on RNA as the newest shiny object to be proud of discovering. My, how things have changed, huh? Ribonucleic acid. Even spell check doesn’t know what that is. Typical.
It is what came before any of this, that goes back to World War Two and is termed nuclear physics, atomic energy, radiation, that has brought this to mind; in the extreme. Once a bomb was made with that knowledge the world kind of took a new turn through our universe. One wonders about the reasons for atomic weapons. I thought bows and arrows, swords, knives, rocks from a sling were sufficient to kill a person. Dying is part of war and who the hell cares how many have to die to win a war? At the end of World War Two the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The excuse was so that thousands more of our soldiers would not have to die. Good reasoning? Debatable.
I got to wondering since we have tested so many nuclear devices, went through Chernobyl and Three Mile Island just how many of us, post war, have died of nuclear poisoning. I bet it is in the millions but try to find out the actual number of people now dead. Some declare their number correct but how about the islanders in the Pacific Ocean? How about the fallout that has been coming down from the skies since the test ban treaty? How about Three Mile Island and the atomic plant in Japan that the tidal wave took out. I don’t even want to get into sea life: birds, seals, fish, whales.
Taking this a step further how is it that science has no problem telling us what the universe is? Is there an end to it? Is it in branches, holding varied substances or planets in different locations we will never know about. A finger of the universe here and a finger of the universe there. The end of the universe, if it exists, is a long way so that you may have to pack a lunch to find the end of it.
My gist is, science, though in some ways beneficial, is chock full of proud scientists whose ego gets in their way. Ego is not objective is it? Let’s stick to daisies and cleaning up what we have soiled and start working on a new perspective that includes creation by bringing back humility. We don’t know squat about what we think we know a lot about. How is that for a closing sentence?
Lastly, I have been to war, so I know a bit about that of which I speak.
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