(December 13, 2009 at 6:48 am)fr0d0 Wrote:Firstly, I remain skeptical that overpopulation is a "crisis" or that we are indeed overpopulated. The great thing about nature is that populations always balance themselves out. If there isn't enough food to go around, the population goes down. Yes, science allowed us to live longer, but it also told us that having a lot of children was a bad idea. It is religion, not science, that is a larger factor. The Catholic church is the largest religion on the planet, and they abhor the use of condoms, going so far as to spread the malicious lie that they cause AIDS.(December 13, 2009 at 2:29 am)Tiberius Wrote: Science doesn't "let" it happen. Science tries to prevent it. Same with the spread of disease, deaths through natural disasters, etc, etc.
Yet science in exactly this way has led to the current crisis of overpopulation that threatens to end human and most other life on this planet.
Perhaps in your version of the perfect God he would create a physical reality where living things were immortal (with everything that follows with that). It always seems to me to be a stance of disillusion with this physical reality, which I don't get. Why not face up to reality and hold a world view that lets you think positively?
Science has promoted birth control, has taught people how to prevent the spread of STDs. It is religion that has tried to thwart these attempts, and it is a shame that most people still seem to think religion holds a higher purpose.
As for my vision of a perfect God, it would be one which didn't exist. I don't see a need for a God in order to live my life, or think positively. I am capable of doing that quite well without it.
