It's very emotive and quite depressing to see what a petty juvenile species we are but I take great comfort in how far we've come.
As a species we are young, our civilisations last a millennium at best but through art and science we are making strides forward, we might just make it.
It's my hope and belief that within this millennium we will throw off the yoke of superstition and every human will live full and complete lives.
When the Einsteins and Picassos that live suppressed by dictators, that die in child birth, that die before learning to read, that perish from hunger, war, famine, disease and ignorance are released we will make great strides in to the future. Our minds will be opened and what we know now will seem but a pin prick of light.
At many times I am ashamed to be a member of this species but at times we rise higher than we can possibly imagine.
Either that, or we get hit by an asteroid and we're wiped of the face of the planet.
I'd recommend everyone read the book Pale Blue Dot by Sagan "A Vision of the Human Future in Space".
It's amazing that members of our species can turn a photograph of earth from a great distance into an emotional appeal to support the belief system of the speaker (Carl believed that the laws of science were an impersonal God).
Personally I do not understand why people think that God would be more palatable if the universe were small and the boundaries of reality more obvious. For me, that only rules out the existence of a God created in my own image. It rules out the God of the small minded person, but not a God of inestimable power whose mind is as far above our mind as the heavens are above the earth!
As a species we are young, our civilisations last a millennium at best but through art and science we are making strides forward, we might just make it.
It's my hope and belief that within this millennium we will throw off the yoke of superstition and every human will live full and complete lives.
When the Einsteins and Picassos that live suppressed by dictators, that die in child birth, that die before learning to read, that perish from hunger, war, famine, disease and ignorance are released we will make great strides in to the future. Our minds will be opened and what we know now will seem but a pin prick of light.
At many times I am ashamed to be a member of this species but at times we rise higher than we can possibly imagine.
Either that, or we get hit by an asteroid and we're wiped of the face of the planet.
I'd recommend everyone read the book Pale Blue Dot by Sagan "A Vision of the Human Future in Space".