Does God exist?
A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of a God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."
Why do you say that?" asked the customer.
"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who allow all of these things"
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he did not want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the barber. "I am here, and I am a barber, and I just worked on you"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me."
"Exactly!" - affirmed the customer "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! what happens, is people don't go to Him and do not look for Him, That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
"Scientific Mixture of Inspiration and Controversy"
Remember the first time you went to the zoo? I remember mine. It was so amazing to see so many animals, but some of them scared me. I laughed and ran. I fed the animals and I took pictures. It was also the time I probably asked the most questions. Why is the elephant's nose very long? Why does the giraffe have a long neck? How did the peacock get its colorful feathers? And as I grow older, animals remain fascinating creatures to me. The more I learn about them, the more questions I have about them.
Today, the million-dollar question scientist are asking is: "Is it right to fuse animal DNA with Human DNA, thus giving life to a chimera?" It can be intriguing if you think about it, but remember, there are moral concerns. Scientists cannot play god. They have to draw the line somewhere.
A more practical scientific breakthrough is one introduced by Dr. Samuel Bernal, a Filipino-American who designed his own dendritic stem cell therapy. He is among several doctors that specialize in regenerative medicine, a field of medicine that focuses on the body's capability to heal itself.
Perhaps healing oneself is all in the mind. Thanks to the brain which works in amazing ways. In solving problems, the scientific mind can create models to help an individual visualize abstract ideas. Remember James Bond and his techie gadgets? A thought process may have been going on in our minds as the gadgets were being explained to him. We made virtual models of the images he saw. The virtual model helps us understand how a gadget works. We know for instance, that a button in the spypen would activate a laser.
Most times the greatest discoveries are a result of accidents and even simple things. The next time we form shapes and objects using a piece of paper, remember that those exact things were an inspiration to many scientists.
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