[IP] We need a lot more Science to Survive and Thrive
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From: Jock Gill <jg45@xxxxxxx>
Date: October 11, 2005 1:10:52 PM EDT
To: Farber Dave <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jock Gill <jg45@xxxxxxx>
Subject: We need a lot more Science to Survive and Thrive
Dave,
Please consider for IP.
October 11, 2005
We need a lot more Science to Survive and Thrive
In today’s world, where long histories of human errors and ignorance
compound and amplify the already difficult situations created by
natural events, such as hurricanes, earth quakes, mud slides and so
forth, what are we to do? Part of the answer is simply that we need a
great deal MORE science, not less, if we want to survive and thrive
in the 21st century.
Consider also that very many of us today share a yearning for a more
satisfying "whole life". I suspect a majority of us are deeply
dissatisfied with the empty life offered by hyper consumerism and
celebrity madness required, it appears, by the processes of mass
production with its dependence on mass markets. This dissatisfaction
takes many forms. It also makes some of us very defensive and leads
to lashing out and other regrettable behaviors, greed, looting and
even terrorism of many sorts, for example.
Are our current cultural tensions an unavoidable conflict, a sharp
dichotomy, between faith-based approaches or a fact-based
“scientific” approach? I see this as a truly false and dangerous
dichotomy. What we need is an and/both approach that is greater than
the sum of the parts. The fact of mystery is ancient and undeniable.
Given the ever lasting condition of all of humanity’s imperfect
knowledge, mystery is also ever lasting. Science, on the other hand,
is an ever more necessary and useful tool. In the face of
deteriorating world conditions, we need a lot more of it, but more
readily available and comprehensible to much greater numbers of all
peoples. We can be confident, however, that science is no threat, and
can never be, to the deeper mysteries.
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Jock
Jock Gill
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