Saturday, July 02, 2005
Hooray for Science and Technology
Continuing the cemetery posts, I ran across this small gravestone.
They didn't even bother to name the child. There was a day and age when this was common, when a child was not named until they'd reached a certain age (usually around 1 or so if my memory serves - which it usually doesn't). And it wasn't all that long ago. You see, before the age of science the survival rate of children to adult hood was abyssmal (less than half of all children made it to 18 and I think the actual number was lower than that).
Anyway, just a reminder of what science and technology has given us since we no longer bury half our children before adult hood. Oh wait, it's God who's give us that luxury...since everything good is from "God" and everything bad from well...er, wait, God made evil and the devil (Is 45:7) so well...so God is responsible for not raising life expectancies before the age of science and technology so...oh man, I'm so confused!
Hooray for science and technology (no joke). It makes me proud to be a scientist, and humbled to think how far we've come and how far we have left to go (in both a scientific and humanitarian sense - and in getting rid of superstition also).
Continuing the cemetery posts, I ran across this small gravestone.
They didn't even bother to name the child. There was a day and age when this was common, when a child was not named until they'd reached a certain age (usually around 1 or so if my memory serves - which it usually doesn't). And it wasn't all that long ago. You see, before the age of science the survival rate of children to adult hood was abyssmal (less than half of all children made it to 18 and I think the actual number was lower than that).
Anyway, just a reminder of what science and technology has given us since we no longer bury half our children before adult hood. Oh wait, it's God who's give us that luxury...since everything good is from "God" and everything bad from well...er, wait, God made evil and the devil (Is 45:7) so well...so God is responsible for not raising life expectancies before the age of science and technology so...oh man, I'm so confused!
Hooray for science and technology (no joke). It makes me proud to be a scientist, and humbled to think how far we've come and how far we have left to go (in both a scientific and humanitarian sense - and in getting rid of superstition also).
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