And 25 years of my career were in Bell Laboratories and its offshoots and predecessors.
They did amazing things in telecom, beyond question. I sometimes envied, from my lesser, hayseed seat in Illinois, what was going on in New Jersey. That is how I became a hi tech red neck.
However. No honest corner of human curiosity about the creation has gone unrewarded. The whole creation bears witness to the glory of God. That’s not a piece of the creation, that’s the whole creation.
Abusus non tollit usum. A corruption in an area of inquiry does not render the entire area without use. Has telecom been simon pure? I’m not sure about that. There was a fair amount of B.S. that went on even in Bell Labs, and I saw complaints about it. The work was considered so elite, that half baked things frequently got slung around. The company that once thought the future was so bright it had to wear shades, in fact found the future was so dark it had to wear night vision goggles. It now kind of limps along as Alcatel-Lucent.
My father in law started with the phone company in 1966, my mother in law in 1967, my husband’s grandmother in the 50s. My husband followed his dad into telecomm engineering. He comes from a telecom family. No doubt there have been great strides, but when I read your post to him he responded his dad would agree with you. There have been greater technology out of NASA and hubby and his parents have always supported NASA. And they saw more than their share of BS in So Cal Bell, GTE, and then Verizon.
And you are absolutely correct. God gave us the heavens, they are His creation too, aside from technology I love what you said about it showing us the Glory of God. How can that be bad?