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Just over a century ago the Wright brothers got the first airplane off the ground. Could they have ever imagined that someday men would stand on the moon?
Medical science has made enormous strides in dealing with human diseases and injuries. In economically advanced nations we take for granted the automobile, television, electricity, air travel and computers.
In spite of all this scientific wonder, the last century witnessed the evil of Auschwitz, communist totalitarianism, the rise of terrorism in the name of religion and the use of technology as a tool of despotism.
Christianity rightly claims that each person has value and is a special creation of the Creator. Then why do people commit heinous crimes? Did God create people evil?
Over the millennia many thinking people have struggled with this dilemma. There's a wonder and beauty to human life, but there is also a terrible evil that plagues mankind.
When we look at what makes us different from animals, the gulf is enormous. Prairie dogs burrow, human beings construct skyscrapers. Sparrows chirp simple musical notes, human beings compose symphonies. Horses learn to answer what is two plus two by pounding a hoof four times, human beings calculate the distance between galaxies in light years.
At the same time, prairie dogs, sparrows and horses don't manufacture nerve gas and use it to murder their own kind. The irony is that our uniqueness of consciousness, creativity and ability to think in abstracts are the same abilities that give us the capability for unimaginable evil.
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