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Thursday, 2nd September 2010

Weekend Thought by John Milbank

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Published Date: 02 October 2008
If music be the food of love, let's hope it is not genetically modified.

OK, sorry about that, but a mere glance around us reveals a world that is completely reliant on science and scientific principles.
A dictionary definition of science is "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, an
d theoretical explanation of phenomena" and much more. Right, you are already bored by this Weekend Thought, I understand…. really!

However, once you begin to think about why something is what it is, why it does what it does and what the effect on our lives is as a result, then you are actually being scientific.

This computer I am using is the evidence of science. Your mobile phone the same. Email, the radio, TV, MP3 player, the car, the fridge, your toothbrush etc, etc – all are manifestations of science and technology at work, and I find myself getting more and more amazed at the extent of it all.

Now we can discover a muddy track that leads to the middle of a desolate field thanks to the wonders of sat nav (and meet a group of other bewildered drivers).

We can text or email "Happy birthday, David" to the other side of the planet, immediately. And we now have nano technology. Then there's the Large Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator, and one understands a little more about the term "anticlimax".

Humour aside though, science is awesome and has been with us since the very beginning. Much debate has been and is made of the link or coexistence of science and religion and, without going too far into the topic, many great scientists and prominent representatives of religion have argued this issue for centuries.

It is fascinating, but due to the need for brevity I leave you with three statements to ponder while relaxing in your solar-powered lukewarm Jacuzzi:

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (from Ecclesiastes). And "For by Him (Jesus) all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible," (from Colossians). And finally, "Thank God for science" (from me).



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