Napalm and the nuclear bomb

Originally posted by divegeester
Who do you blame for their invention, science or god?

God is to be blamed as God contains everything including science. By the way, give God some credit also for setting up those innumerable helium fusion reactions going on in the Sun, which keep us alive.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
To be sure, other civilizations have reached the same point and destroyed themselves.
We must learn about the atom to understand the nature of the universe better, it is a neccesary lesson for evolution. But at the same time we learn of its potential destructive powers which in makes us turn back to ourselves and our world and the potential applicati ...[text shortened]... ded to correct itself several times in the past to adhere to what they think is REALLY going on?

As has been pointed out before, your belief is not required for ghosts, Jesus, aliens, etc,etc. to exist.

And Ghosts, Jesus, aliens, etc,etc. are not required to exist, to bring about the beliefs they bring about.

This symmetry is not available in science.

Originally posted by divegeester
Who do you blame for their invention, science or god?

Why do you say 'science'? Science didn't do anything. People did all the work, including developing science. So it wasn't 'science' that invented the bomb, it was people.