How can religious people explain something like this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1380094,00.html
Earthquakes led 18th-century thinkers to ask questions we shy away from
Martin Kettle
Tuesday December 28, 2004
The Guardian
The modern era flatters itself that human beings can now know and shape
almost everything about the world. But an event like the Indonesian
earthquake exposes much of this for the hubris that it is.
Perhaps we have talked so much about our civilisation's potential to
destroy the planet that we have forgotten that the planet also has an
untamed ability to destroy civilisation too. Whatever else it has
achieved, the Indian Ocean tsunami has at least reminded mankind of its
enduring vulnerability in the face of nature. The scale of suffering
that it has wreaked - 20,000 deaths and counting - shows that we share
such dangers with our ancestors more fully than most of us realised.
Martin Kettle
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/14c6993c4d1ce151
http://snipurl.com/82n3
http://snipurl.com/82n1
.
|
