December 24, 2003

VOLUME ONE Convenience and Denial: at what cost?

Naturalistic Evolution is the belief system that the universe began by itself, with God creating the first one-celled organisms, which, with God's guidance evolved into the human of today.
The development of the human outside of any kind of natural non-manufactured environment forces it to become more dependent on technology. Humans tend to develop new kinds of technology to further something they like to call 'convenience' and 'modernity'. Their technology allows them to create the different kinds of modern lifestyles humans prefer outside, or rather inside from nature. This is their motivation to move away from outside contact. For example, modern automobiles provide the maximum convenience when humans want to travel to most places. Humans don't seem to realize that their 'convenience' only occurs inside the vehicle, where they are shielded from the environmentally hazardous wastes and noise expelled by the machine on the outside. Convenience is a large part of modernity, and the humans believe it is essential for them to experience such convenience at the cost of the environment. They even seem to accept this practice at the financial, mortal and ethical cost of their fellow human, with behavior such as introducing corporate dependency into third-world countries.
Humans also prefer to replace real-life experience with fabricated experience. One example is the way they replace naturalistic experience with artificial experience of nature. Television is the human's most celebrated way of replacing and projectiong these naturalistic themes and images back into their lives. The projection of environmental images for educational purposes, like on public access or specialized channel stations is one way humans do this. Said means of 'educational activity' is oxymoronic to its purpose, since TV-watching is sedentary at best. This would make sense, since it also fulfills the human's dependence on light, of which television sets provide artificially, and with maximum convenience.
Living according to this principle, the growth of dependency on technology for survival will increase the humans' need to further separate themselves from its natural environment, the Earth. However, following the naturalistic method, humans will also develop closer relationships to this technology via God's supervision. This would imply that this process is accepted by God, since was by His hand the process developed in the first place.
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Posted by Noah D Richardson at December 24, 2003 01:37 PM
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