Monday, August 15, 2005
Terraforming: God's Will
Because this question arises repeatedly at our annual AndromedaCon, Andromeda will now address the religious issues surrounding terraforming. Terraforming is being discussed as a way to make Mars livable for human beings.
There are some great big sillies who refuse to recognize terraforming as mankind's right and destiny. These great big sillies view mankind as God's gift to Earth in the same way smallpox blankets were white man's gift to Native Americans.
But simple logic reveals God's will on this subject. Imagine if God gave mankind a stick of chewing gum. Would God expect mankind to just keep it and preserve in its original clean, pristine, condition? Of course not, God would expect mankind to chew it up and spit it out! And has God not given us Earth, delicious, double-mint Earth in a shiny foil wrapper? Of course He has. Just as He gave us the Garden of Eden. And remember in the Garden of Eden how He said we could eat from every Tree there, every single tree, more or less? So it is with Earth!
There are some great big sillies who refuse to recognize terraforming as mankind's right and destiny. These great big sillies view mankind as God's gift to Earth in the same way smallpox blankets were white man's gift to Native Americans.
But simple logic reveals God's will on this subject. Imagine if God gave mankind a stick of chewing gum. Would God expect mankind to just keep it and preserve in its original clean, pristine, condition? Of course not, God would expect mankind to chew it up and spit it out! And has God not given us Earth, delicious, double-mint Earth in a shiny foil wrapper? Of course He has. Just as He gave us the Garden of Eden. And remember in the Garden of Eden how He said we could eat from every Tree there, every single tree, more or less? So it is with Earth!
