Science

I've been reading Dan Brown's another famous work - Angels & Demons.

Basically he is a great and experienced writer who is fully of knowledge in various fields. Because only being really knowledgable can someone write something as sophisticated as the Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. A lot of history, art, language, science are involved in his stories, and the complexity and abundance in content/reference should be one of the main reasons that his books are so popular. Nonetheless, I'm not saying I totally agree with the ideas in his productions, particularly in terms of the history of the church, Jesus and Opus Dei,he is simply making up some kind of story that really sounds genuine. If only considering his books as a way to kill time, one may find it a pleasure. Thought sometimes the content and history are so abundant and intricate that you may not be able to fully understand all of them. Anyway, just give it a shot if you haven't.

There is one paragraph about science that I've come across and I find it quite a perspective to look at science.

"Science's victory has cost every one of us. And it has cost us deeply. Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonder. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathmatical equations. Even self-worth as human beings has been inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. Simply A cosmic accident. Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us feel utterly alone. We are bombared with violence, division, fracture and betrayal. Skepticism has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? Does science hold anything sacred? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses. Sciecne even presumes to rearrange our own DNA. It shatters God's world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning... and all it finds is more questions."

- Angels & Demons, Dan Brown

I'm not saying it's completely right, but this is one of the paragraphs in this book that seems to support Divinity and oppose science as a new God.