Here is a interesting speech by famous author Michael Crichton, entitled "Aliens cause global warming." If you're interested in science, politics, postmodernism or creationism, you will probably enjoy taking a few minutes to read through his speech. He speaks from the perspective of a science-loving (and "pseudoscience-hating") modernist, pleading for objectivity in current and future scientific research. And of course, scientific objectivity is a very good thing. But it may be elusive... Crichton sees the handwriting on the wall - that postmodernism is gradually eliminating the objectivity of science (and even the practice of scientific research itself).
C. S. Lewis put it well... (M. D. Aeschliman, 'C. S. Lewis on Mere Science', 1998 First Things 86 (October, 1998): 16-18) ---
"Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared - the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature [i.e. quantum theory], and the surrender of the claim that science is true [i.e. postmodernism]. We may be living nearer than we suppose to the end of the Scientific Age."
So what ought we Christians to do?
I suggest - follow God in full trust without "worrying about tomorrow", and revel in science / knowledge / learning more about God's creation, worshipping the Creator...
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