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...prospect of living 100 years or even longer is quite exciting [MEDICINE, Nov. 25]. Yet what will mankind do with this extended life-span? Will we use these extra years of life to wage war against both the environment and one another? Or will we use the time to teach, grow, respect the earth and live in peace with our neighbors? CHRISTOPHER J. RENNER Phoenix, Arizona...
...there limits to the knowledge that we can gain? If one believes God controls or monitors the affairs of mankind, the account of his defeat of those who wanted to build the Tower of Babel would indicate that there are boundaries. One lesson in Genesis is that history often repeats itself. Could science get to the point where our attempts to learn could get cut off again? By turning off all the electricity, God could throw us back to the Stone Age overnight. KENNETH BERRY Riverview, New Brunswick Via E-mail...
...onto a subject, there can be fireworks. In the series' best segment, "Apocalypse," about the Flood, British author (and former nun) Karen Armstrong conducts a blistering twin attack. God, she maintains, is "not some nice, cozy daddy in the sky." He is "behaving in an evil way," effectively introducing mankind to the idea of justifiable genocide. Noah, meanwhile, is a "damaged survivor" who says no word about those drowning around him, much less tries to help them. Drinking his troubles away after reaching shore, he is enraged at being seen naked by his son Ham and invokes a curse...
Thelma, the strong matriarch, has had to deal with a severe mother-in-law, a cheating husband, sterility, medicine men and more. Each step in her growth is treated like a gigantic leap of mankind, then is pushed aside for yet another revelation. After a few years of childless marriage, for example, Thelma's mother-in-law becomes concerned and takes action, asking "the old man to come." After that summoning, there is a break in the text, as if an earth-shattering meeting, or story-changing event is about to take place. The next paragraph contains a description...
These passages insist that G-d does not require the bravado and grandeur of a supernatural wonder to inform the human condition, but rather speaks to mankind quietly, gently, in the private space of our minds. Perhaps it is there, and not in the miracles of the past, that the divine participates in our modern lives; perhaps it is there that we should be looking...