Is Complexity Viable?
Nathanael Berends November 24th, 2007
Where can we find the intersection of faith and science? (And what do those question marks on the diagram below reperesent?)
Draw your own conclusions on this one (The full essay is here.):
Excerpt:
In the 21st century? Science and technology has to face many difficulties. The planet is full. We will be 10 to 12 billion in 2050. Can we have 10, 12 billion people live in normal life and not deteriorate completely the planet? The natural resources are decreasing, there will be no more oil and coal and gas and no more uranium in a rather short time.
It is often said that science and technology are the remedy. I think we have to say something else. Science and technology are necessary but not sufficient. It is clear that science and technology may as well keep on deteriorating or may be used to improve the situation.
The main thing required is something that is not scientific but emergence of the planetary consciousness, the planetary conscience; a will to stop the deterioration. For this we need a strong political will on a planetary scale.
So I think science is fundamental, we need science, we need technology but more than that we need the real conscious will to say we have to do something to answer the question “Is complexity viable?” No one knows the answer. It depends on what we do, it is our responsibility to do something in order to make the answer “yes.”
