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  • If you want to know
    where your heart is,
    look where your mind goes
    when it wanders...

    It is OK if you do not have all the answers, sometimes you just have to take the chance.

    If the stars conspire, anything is possible...

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  • My Tribute To Michael Crichton (Part 2)

    2008-11-06 1:50PM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看

    This is the article that I had written back in 1993,

    based on issues raised in Michael Crichton's book,

    "Jurassic Park". He inspired me and stimulated my 18-year-old

    mind to think hard about what was going on in the world...

     

     

    JURASSIC PARK

     

    “God creates dinosaurs

    God destroys dinosaurs

    God creates man

                                                     Man destroys God

    Man creates dinosaurs

    Dinosaurs eat man

    Women inherit the Earth”

     

    Witty, sexist, but there is more truth in that quote than meets the eye. Science today is making such rapid progress that the common person can hardly keep up with it. And this is what makes science, particularly biotechnology, so potent and dangerous.

     

    Firstly, science is knowledge that has been inherited by today’s scientists, passed down from yesterday’s scientists. There was honour in the research done by scientists then as they worked meticulously to get what we now know. And in the time they took to get that information, they also matured enough to know that they should not use the information frivolously. Whereas now, there is this furious haste to commercialize science – people who want to make a “quick buck” before there are any laws to check their activities.

     

    Biotechnology now is broad-based, it can be applied to almost all aspects of our lives. However, there is also a great deal of thoughtless and whimsical research going on in that field and it goes unchecked. There is so little “outside” commentary on this research and the dimensions and implications of this research are hardly understood at all. People are so excited about what they can do that they have not stopped to think if they should do it.

     

    In Jurassic Park, man tries to control nature, he tries to create a separate and isolated environment, but he does not realize that such isolation is impossible. The environment in which we live is a dynamic and integrated system, whereby no one element survives on its own. Man has to realize that mechanic systems and living systems are not the same. Mechanic systems are predictable, living systems are not. Living systems are in a constant state of change. Man has much to learn about life and it’s sanctity, much more than he already knows.

     

    “You can make a boat, but you can’t make the ocean.

    You can make an airplane, but you can’t make the air.

    Your powers are much less than your dreams of reason

    would have you believe.”

     

    Think about it.

     

     

     

    Written by Jeanette Chin

     

    Published In:

    "Voices", Holy Family Church’s Young Crusaders League Newsletter, September 1993.

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