It was the day after Christmas when I had a look at the local newspaper and read about some facts that are going to take place during 2006. It is interesting so have a look here:
o10,000,000 people will die because of hunger, including 4.5 million children
o16,000 square kilometres of ice from the poles will melt
o25,000 square kilometres of forest will be destroyed only in the Amazon
o35 nations will be at war
oOver 1 million people will commit suicide while 10 millions will try doing so but will fail to do it
o30 billions tons of gases dangerous for our environment will be released in the atmosphere
oFor the first time, over 50% of the population on earth will be living in cities
oOver one billion will die from malaria, something that is very rare in developed countries
o1 out of 5 people will be living on less than a dollar per day
o3,000 children will be dying every hour due to various illnesses
o50,000 species of animals and plants will be extinct...
Unfortunately, these are not the only problems that humanity faces. We do know that except these, there are also dozens of things to worry about like the overgrowth of our population, global warming, child porn, poverty etc, but I guess currently we are all mostly concerned about that bird flu and the H5N1 virus.
A few people know that a scientist called Mittal, will probably have a vaccine against H5N1 ready by October 2006, which means the period of virus infections will have already begun and it is very possible that H5N1 will be able to transmit itself among humans. Scientists predict that 360,000,000 will die; 1 in 20 people on earth... Many scientists including Ira Longini, biostatics professor, say that it is sure that humanity will face a great pandemic, the greatest ever, in about a few months. Even though that currently the H5N1 virus is not contagious among humans but from birds to humans, Ira Longini says that if a person has even a little fever and gets H5N1, the DNA of H5N1 will become "one" with the other virus and will create a new version of the virus's DNA so, H5N1, will be easily transmitted among people.
"It is sure that something like that will happen in a few months", she says. In just 5 months, we could have millions of dead... It may start in this apparent way: A little girl from a village in Thailand starts coughing. Despite her mother's attempts to make her temperature get back to normal, the girl dies within a week. A lot of the people who had been to her funeral start coughing too, including a businessman. In spite of the fact that he does not feel okay, he decides not to cancel his trip to Bangkok, which is on the following day. Six months later the situation is worse than it could be: H5N1 virus has been spread across all continents with hundreds of millions of dead.
Even if such scenarios sound too spooky, the fact that they are acceptable by the scientific community makes them sound like a nightmare.
Wherever you go, whatever you do, all you hear is "Wars, pandemics, pollution, poverty..."
I really do not like all these. It is not only the bird flu but all the other problems that our world is facing too. We are rapidly walking towards disaster, towards our extinction. Everybody would say that there is no return but I would never say that. I do believe that there is a way back and in order to find it, we should look for the cause of our troubles.
My firm belief is that all that stems from the fact that man has really got away from God. Science has taken over God. Medicine, telecommunications, genetics, space travel... These are the miracles today and these are the miracles we will be talking to our children about. "Old" God is forgotten. We'll never tell our kids to believe in what we had heard from our fathers; about a burning bush that could talk, about a man walking on the water, about a man that was born without a father. Science has won but that has cost to every single person on the earth.
Science may treat illnesses and make our lives easier but it has led us to a world with no mystery. Sunset has been translated to wavelengths; our space has been translated to mathematical equations. Even our value, as humans, has been reduced; science has proven that earth is an unimportant dot in universe, a cosmic failure. Technology promises to connect us with reality but in fact, it separate us. Every one of us, me, you and all people can electronically connect with the rest of the word but we still feel lonely.
Science tries to find out why some babies cannot be born, tries to reconstruct our DNA. It chops the world of God to smaller pieces, looking for the meaning of each; the only thing it finds is more questions. Science feeds itself like a virus and works faster and faster. Humanity needed thousands of years to get from the wheel to the car but only a few decades to get from the car to space. The situation is not under control anymore. And believe me; we're all desperate even if we do not know that. We are people imprisoned, tortured, mentally dispersed by science and we are unable to accept the fact that there is a meaning in life without science.
I do not say that I am against science, but we have really overdone it and we are in a modern car with brakes which have broken down, heading towards disaster with mathematical accuracy. Who is the God that is called science? Who is the God that gives His children power but does not advise them on how to use that power? Science does not even know and does not teach us what is good and bad. It just teaches us how to create a nuclear explosion but it does not say whether that is right or wrong. Science helps us create guns all the time while people close to God beg world leaders to stop it.
Science does prompt us to contact people on cellular phones and computers but it does not teach us at all that we should not forget to have personal contact with other people as it is in our nature. Science says that it needs evidence to accept that there is a God. Why doesn't it look through its telescopes in space and then dare say that there is no God? Can't you see God in science? How is it possible to ignore Him? How is it possible to ignore His advice to prevent our destruction? Science says that even a small change in the weight of an atom could cost our birth. Isn't that a miracle? Is it so easy to believe that we picked a card out of a billion and we won?
Albert Einstein had said: "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality", "Imagination is more important than knowledge...", "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science", "The important thing is not to stop questioning". He must have known something! Are God and religion some ancient dinosaurs or does the world really need them in order to prevent our loss? We always face something evil. Even if that is called Satan, corruption, anomie, it is a dark power which is getting stronger day to day. We should not ignore it but fight it! That power, despite being strong, is not unbeatable. Goodness shall win.
I do not think by any means, though, that we should abandon science. Ancient Greeks used to say "Pan metron ariston" which means "All things in moderation and moderation in all things", in other words, "Proportion is perfect"; nothing should be used uncontrollably. We need both God and science. It is just that science has really got away from God and made people forget Him. God is our tutor and science is our weapon is what I tend to believe. We can use that weapon for our protection along with the proper guidelines of our tutor but without His advice, we will use it against us, as we have already done. God is of the same importance as science. We need them both!
Unfortunately, it is kind of late to realize that. We are already heading to extinction and we cannot understand that properly, as it is the inability we have as human beings to look into the future and see the results of our future actions, now. Second by second we are getting closer to it. Stop! Stop! Stop having wars at last! Stop that waste of people! Somebody with "clear" logic, and I am afraid that ours is "dirty" indeed, If they heard that we were still exterminating ourselves, they would think we were cavemen. If they heard we were destroying our home, which is our environment, they would be disgusted.
If they heard that instead of co-operating so as to find new solutions to our problems, living harmonically and blissfully under the eyes of God, we are still in a level where we are fighting and looking for ways in which we can make more profit for ourselves; just like small kids compete who is going to take the best plastic soldier in order to play on their plastic castles! Believe me, even those kids, who are still pure souls, are more rational than we are. Wake up you fools, we are getting lost! We are destroying ourselves! It is time we opened our eyes, got back to our father cum tutor and listened to what He had to say! You can call that father God, Buddha, Allah or whatever, but believe and then the results will be amazing. Even science, which is ignorant of God, is forced to accept that through belief people are magically transformed from monsters to Humans. Wake up and believe! Believe!
Name: Steven Reeves
Age: 14
Country: Greece
E-mail: hawk11.11@gmail.com/>
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