Posted on 07/16/2010 8:57:21 PM PDT by deltaromeo11
It is the fact that the letters “Ph.D.” follow my name. It is my degrees in chemistry and a decade of work in environmental remediation that draw people’s dreamy adoration.
I am held to a higher standard not just because I’m a pastor but mostly because I am a scientist. Folks assume that I know the answer to any question they might think up.
With our increased demand and consumption of oil, with our increased demand for money and the greed that pervades our culture, and with the expectation of instant results born of the very technology that scientists and engineers have given us come no room for error and no offer of grace.
Most of the environmental disasters that I encountered as a consultant were not the result of a failure in science or technology; they were the direct result of the increasing pressure on scientists and engineers to think that they are the solution to all the world’s ills. That’s too much pressure for any group of humans to withstand.
If everyone lived the way an average American lives, we would need 10 planets to sustain the world’s present population . . . As a scientist, I long for us to lay aside the hubris that says, “If humans can dream it up — it must be good.”
(Excerpt) Read more at umc.org ...
The excerpt wasn’t representative of the whole article.
I went to the link and read the whole article, which gave me a completely different point of view than the excerpt.
It might benefit posters to take the time to read the whole article, before judging the lady.
Really? I don’t see it. What do you find redeeming?
1 Cor 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Cor 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
or
1 Tim 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Tim 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
My mystification that this blowout could ever have happened led me to conclude that there is not enough science involved in the process. Science is knowledge, and they should have known what they were getting into.
Lots of people are full of themselves.
Seems those who know the least say it the loudest.
Not only do I agree totally with the headline, but would go one step further.
Scientists are human, too, but they seem to have higher representation in the mental health department at both ends of the sanity scale. Ditto the ethics scale.
I think the assertion is quite plausible.
Maybe she assumed that the word of Jesus, “Men love your wives” mattered more than Corinthians or Timothy.
Typical straw-man type argument.
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