Is science and the preservation of the species..

[G.T.]

Wrong, or sometimes wrong, in the eyes of Religion?

If science could achieve the immortality of human consciences, would you object? I would not, because I sometimes fear the unknown, especially the unknown of what becomes of us when we die.

 

[Steven_R]

The first and foremost priority of every species to for the species to survive. Why should humanity be any different?

As far as the immortality thing, the only reason I would want that is curiosity. I want to learn everything about everything. It's why I'm becoming a scientist.

 

[theword]

Science was used by God to show us His infinite existence and since we're all created in His image, which is invisible energy, we'll live on forever. Energy is information and information is God's stored thoughts as wavebits of energy, each vibrating differently than the next but in perfect harmony.

Entropy (Lucifer and the beast), is energy wavebits that aren't harmonic and what caused the delusion in this world. This deception caused fear of the unknown and made man believe in disease, accidents, destruction, and death.

We won't live with this entropy in the next age to come so all God's people will know Him and how we're created as His stored thoughts.

You have nothing to worry about. Without this knowledge from "Christ", no man can understand these deeper things of God and His plan for us beings.

 

[Avatar4321]

Im not really worried about it happening.

 

[Jimmy_Jam]

Meh. Religious people use science for their own purposes and agendas. Then again, so does everybody else.

Examples:

Fundamentalist Christians object to the use of medical science to abort fetuses, the central premise being that it is murder, humans playing God and deciding who lives and who dies. Yet, they have no issues with the use of medical science to help with fertility or to save the life of a baby that, absent that science, would have perished. Somehow one is playing God and the other is not. Christian Scientists and the like are excluded from this example.

Conversely, the extreme left counterparts are happy to abort fetuses for a variety of reasons, such as eugenics, or some other socio-political justification. In the case of eugenics, some would argue that so much focus of science on saving the lives of babies that nature would have selected to die is destroying the gene pool. Either way, each group is selectively using science for their own agendas.

Anyone could go on and on with examples of the selective use of science and scientific data for social agendas.

If I may use a vulgar metaphor, science is much like a prostitute, exploited by each "john" for their own reasons. I picture the extremists on the left and right being among the most depraved and fetishistic of all johns. But, like a good prostitute, science abides.

 

[waltky]

Languages being lost as well as species...

As forests are cleared and species vanish, there's one other loss: a world of languages
Saturday 7 June 2014 ~ A new report shows a direct link between disappearing habitats and the loss of languages. One in four of the world's 7,000 spoken tongues is now at risk of falling silent for ever as the threat to cultural biodiversity grows

Benny Wenda from the highlands of West Papua speaks only nine languages these days. In his village of Pyramid in the Baliem valley, he converses in Lani, the language of his tribe, as well as Dani, Yali, Mee and Walak. Elsewhere, he speaks Indonesian, Papua New Guinean Pidgin, coastal Bayak and English. Wenda has known and forgotten other languages. Some are indigenous, spoken by his grandparents or just a few hundred people from neighbouring valleys; others are the languages of Indonesian colonists and global businesses. His words for "greeting" are, variously, Kawonak, Nayak, Nareh, Koyao, Aelak, Selamt, Brata, Tabeaya and Hello.

New Guinea has around 1,000 languages, but as the politics change and deforestation accelerates, the natural barriers that once allowed so many languages to develop there in isolation are broken down. This is part of a process that has seen languages decline as biodiversity decreases. Researchers have established a correlation between changes in local environments – including the extinction of species – and the disappearance of languages spoken by communities who had inhabited them. "The forests are being cut down. Many languages are being lost. Migrants come and people leave to find work in the lowlands and cities. The Indonesian government stops us speaking our languages in schools," says Wenda.

A Nenets reindeer herdswoman in Russia's Arctic region.

According to a report by researchers Jonathan Loh at the Zoological Society of London and David Harmon at the George Wright Society, the steep declines in both languages and nature mirror each other. One in four of the world's 7,000 languages are now threatened with extinction, and linguistic diversity is declining as fast as biodiversity – about 30% since 1970, they say. While around 21% of all mammals, 13% of birds, 15% of reptiles and 30% of amphibians are threatened, around 400 languages are thought to have become extinct in the same time.

New Guinea, the second-largest island in the world, is not just the world's most linguistically diverse place, it is also one of the most biologically abundant, with tree-climbing kangaroos, birds of paradise, carnivorous mice, giant pigeons, rats bigger than domestic cats and more orchid species than any other place on the planet. Today, both its wildlife and its languages are endangered. According to linguist and author Asya Pereltsvaig, the language of Bo is spoken by 85 people, Ak by 75 and Karawa by only 63. Likum and Hoia Hoia have around 80 speakers, and Abom just 15. Guramalum in New Ireland Province had at the last count only three speakers and Lua is almost certainly extinct, with a single speaker recorded in 2000. Ironically, Lua is now the name of a successful computer programming language.

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