Creationism/evolution/intelligent design

"Creation Moments" website:
http://www.creationmoments.com/content/religion-evolution

"Action bioscience" website:
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/nhmag.html

Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the idea of techno-science and nature and philosophy is questioned. The main message about techno-science throughout the book is the importance of knowledge and learning. The entire story revolves around this creature who travels and ‘lives’ by learning of his/it’s surroundings, environment, and cultures in which will help him survive in the world. The creator, Victor, also goes through his life story about how he learned from his own creation, which includes a few deaths in his family and friends, and how it shaped his decisions. This comes into play for the question about whether or not this is a cautionary tale. One specific quote from the book that pin points this very subject is the last few words that Victor speaks before he dies, “That he should be an instrument of mischief disturbs me;…Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition, even if it be the only apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed” (Shelley, 187). This would be considered as a major argument of the “caution” in this novel. Shelley indirectly warns readers throughout this book how techno-science is something to be carefully dealt with, for there will be consequences if not. There are many interesting ideas to techno-science but even the slightest disregard to the importance of learning with and from these ideas could create problems. Like in Frankenstein, when Shelley shows us how the creator lost control of his creation from his lack of interest with continuing his work. If the creator had continued to help the creature learn with him and discover the world rather than forget about him and let him off into the environment on his own, things would have been much different. Most likely the creature wouldn’t have killed those other people and would have had a better understanding of relationships and the culture of the people. The creature’s regrets of his life choices reflect the regrets of the creator, which connected the two characters in the end.

Mr. Green film

I believe that this film, “Mr. Green”, first implies that the government places environmental issues last, as relatively unimportant in comparison to other priorities. It also implies that government takes in the issue of money, and how ecological issues are lacking funding because of their place in the government’s priorities. It’s scary to think where we will be in the near future with global warming, especially if we continue to have a low funding amount to these ecological challenges if any funding at all. Right now one of the issues with global warming is the politics, with so many people completely ignoring and disbelieving the affects to our environment. Without first knowing and accepting these problems, it will be difficult to make real progress in fixing them. Since this film is set to be in 2014, it poses important questions on how we stand now, and if or when we can make improvements or changes from now until then. This film suggests that the only way to make good choices for ecological change in a democracy is to “be the change you want in the world.” By this they are encouraging individuals to make daily choices to help make a difference, not just to expect government or any other higher authority or group to do all of the work. Specifically, one of the characters describes how reducing the amount of meat consumption in the U.S. could make an impact, which means Americans either becoming vegetarians or simply adapting their diets to less meat. This movie implies that there could possibly be techno-scientific solutions to ecological issues, with the characters somehow growing plants in and on their own bodies. Anything that advanced will not be available by 2014, seeing where technology is today.