The Case for Theism

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It's interesting that not only have you cherry picked some technologies to demonstrate a point but you have been selective about how you presented them.

By way of a response, I can think of any number of behaviours that computers are used to perpetuate, that do not necessarily mean 'instantaneous' communication is a positive thing.

Doubling the human lifespan has led to overpopulation in many areas of the world, we are an incredibly rapacious species.

If you read carefully, I think you'll find you haven't responded to me at all.

You point out the downsides to having these tools... so what? Does that mean that the science behind it was developed solely with those downsides in mind? Absolutely not: especially with medical science, the technologies were developed to improve human life. No scientist thought to themselves "I'm doing this to cause overpopulation."

There are going to be downsides to everything, some of them will be unpredictable at the time a technology is invented. That doesn't alter the motivations for doing so, or the purpose of the scientific method that aided in that, which is what you were arguing.

In the tiny micro-world of one individual it may seem everything in the garden is rosey, and I'm sure it suits some people to think that their PC pops out of some shiny factory in the West and not that it is assembled from component sweat-shops in the third world and that it is only used to create 'instantaneous' communication and it is not a tool of oppression in many countries or enables anti-social behaviour and terrorism.

You might notice that the "science" parts of the equation stops at invention. You have a problem with manufacturing and usage, not discovery.

I'm not suggesting that these things are all bad at all, but they are certainly not the 'advances' we are led to believe them to be. There is little excuse for the particular brand of liberal humanist claptrap that props up the smug western belief that science is a disinterested pursuit of the truth that advances our species.

So be negative for no reason. You're arguing a non point.