2.91 The Big Picture

Twitter is very limited as to what you can say about anything complex or deep.. It is also subject to the ignorant rants and raves of the attention seekers.. I think I was having conversations at times with about 10 people at once, all slightly different!

Anyway today its the spiritual connection part of the big picture.. Clearly God is not going to be ignored.. he crops up in all discussions about the science of origins and features prominently in book titles.. Yes "God" sells.. Not to mention his book is the worlds best seller and has been for a very long time.

Terrorism based on religious extremism is now with us big time.. The local paper bill board read "Evil is Here". The use of the word 'evil' is most significant.. What does it mean? One tweeter said "opposite of good".. Well intuitively that seems ok but. What do we mean by "good"? You see they are both words of strictly human origin and deeply personal. They have no meaning in 'nature'.. Atoms know nothing of it but they are also foreign to the whole animal kingdom. They are one of the great boundary markers between human and animal. Good and evil are opposite ends of the spectrum of human self awareness and innate sense of justice. So where do we go to get an 'authoritative' definition?

Always begin with a clear understanding of the problem (that's engineering). The words 'good' and 'evil' are missing from science (like 'truth' is often missing from law). While the designers/providers of Zyklon B may be called 'evil' (Bruno Tesch was executed) what about the designers of the A-Bomb? No it was war you say and I would agree.. but is the atomic weapon an 'evil' we could do without.. probably.

The reason it is so difficult to define 'evil' is because it is, I submit a spiritual word. It can thus only be defined in a spiritual context. With that knowledge the connection with 'religious' extremism should start to come into focus.. Remember Zyklon B was principally used to exterminate Jews.. The only ethnic group of humans with a claim to be "Gods chosen people".

So 'evil' is another 'missing' word..