Abstract

Progress: Promise and Problems

Suppose that men do perfect their ability to control the weather by sheerly scientific or material means. From then on, obviously, God will let them make over some of His traditionally heavy work in this area of motions and motives. From then on, the subject of each day's weather will not be merely a matter of prognostication and/or prayer. It will also become decidedly a Controversial Issue, with squabbles that could become quite tough. The author is not saying that men should not tinker with the weather, to the best of their ability. Nor that they should not perfect any other positive power over the resources of nature. The author is merely asking to recognize explicitly what kinds of problems will necessarily accompany all such progress.