I have often wondered why it is that man, who is able to understand the mysteries of space travel, cannot grasp the simple needs of the human spirit for love and understanding. In the area of scientific development and research we are rich indeed, but in the field of human relations we are a bankrupt civilization. Let's consider these words of US General Omar Bradley. He said, “We have too many men of science in too few men of God. We have grasped the mysteries of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living." Wise words indeed, and yet I think it would be a pity to assume that men of science are not also men of God. We have always had wars, or talks of wars. I imagine we always will. But it is well to remember that freedom is not something to be won and then forgotten. As long as there is one tyrant left in the world we will need these men of science standing like a Gibraltar in the hostile sea against all those who would attempt to take from us the things we prize so dearly; the things for which so many of our young men have laid down their lives. Building bigger, more terrible weapons for the protection of our way of life may be just as much Gods work as preaching from the pulpit. It would be a mistake to equate science with ungodliness.
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