What Has Science Done To Us?

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

What Has Science Done To Us?
Can scientific inventions make us really happy ? That is the question of questions now.
What has science done to us?

Science has now removed time and space. You can go to London even within ten hours
(from India). What a great marvel ! This earth has become very, very small. But, has science really
contributed to human happiness ? The answer is an emphatic no, no. It has multiplied human wants
and luxuries. A luxury of today becomes a necessity of tomorrow. It has made man a beggar.
Science has invented many marvellous things. Scientists are labouring day and night in their
laboratories to invent many more things. But, science has made life very complex, and rendered
very keen the struggle for existence. It has increased the restlessness of the mind. It has not
contributed to the peace of man. Everybody admits this solid fact. The scientists have made
tremendous progress in the twentieth century. The atomic bombs can devastate a large country in
the twinkling of an eye. Radios, telephones, telepathy, television, aeroplanes without pilots, mines,
tanks, pocket radios, bombs in fountain-pens and cigarettes, underground palaces, shafts, V-bombs,
fighters, bombers, anti-aircraft guns, gas bombs, torpedoes, submarines are all astounding marvels.
But, the scientists have not improved the ethical condition of the people. They have not solved the
problem of unemployment, poverty, war, starvation, disunity among communities, nations, and
governments.
Science has analyzed man. He is supposed to be a creature composed of various physical
and chemical substances. Yet, no scientist has yet been able to assemble these constituent chemical
elements of a man's body into one homogeneous creature which lives, talks, and acts like a man.
The scientist bombards the atoms, watches the movement of the electrons in his laboratory,
spends his whole life in understanding the nature and secret of matter and energy, invents many
things, studies the laws of nature; and yet, he is not able to comprehend the mystery of creation and
of the Creator, and the meaning of life.