On the Large Hadron Collider
"I would have been more interested to see what would happen if they spend that much money and effort honoring the Lord Jesus Christ"
They did...
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...and look what happened to that:
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"But technology is only good if it benefits man"
And graven images do... what, exactly? You tell me. The Large Hadron Collider - paid for by private funding - at least serves a practical purpose. What would a statue of a mythical figure ultimately do in the grand improving the Human Condition scheme of things? Again, you tell me.
And - since yesterday - the announcement by CERN that the Large Hadron Collider has detected the Higgs-Boson*, to confirm the Standard Model, I again ask the question: What has 'honouring the Lord Jesus Christ' done to advance human knowledge & understanding about the world, solar system, galaxy, universe, nay space-time continuum & even part of the Multiverse we live in?
You. Tell. Me.
*- Which will, of course give scientists more questions than answers. But that's how they like it. And from their asking more questions, will they get the answers that will ultimately benefit humanity in the future. After all, did Michael Faraday, Alessandro Volta et al - when they discovered & researched further into electricity - guess at the benefits it would bring us right now; and I'm not just talking about electric light etc. There's the little matter of the very thing you're using to say 'But technology is only good if it benefits man'.
To borrow from "Monty Python's Life of Brian": 'But apart from electric light, internal combustion engines, telephones, telecommunication satellites, radio, television, computers, the Internet, MP3 players, DVD/Blu-Ray, PVRs, the Large Hadron Collider, offshoots from space travel, what has the 'Lord Jesus Christ' ever done for us?!
