Science

August 18

I am thankful for science. I find science very intellectually stimulating. It is fun to find out how things work. It is fun to do research and discover new things. A lot of people are naturally skeptical and afraid of science but I believe that science could hold answers to many of the problems we have in modern day life. People see modern warfare technology, atomic bombs, depleted ozone layer and blame science. Those may  all be true but I also see things like near miraculous medical cures and treatments, modern laboratory diagnosis of disease, food technology, and many more things. I believe that God gave us science to do good, not to do bad. How we use it is up to us.

This is a photo of one of my biotechnology students at LSU AgCenter with a vial of a transfected bacteria. He had transfered a gene called green fluorescent protein gene into E. coli bacteria so that the gene could then manufacture green fluorescent protein which fluoresces under ultaviolet light, as he is demonstrating. The GFR gene originally came from a jellyfish.

in science

in science we can learn

what makes life and so

how cells divide and multiply

and how the plants grow

in science we are blessed

with healing powers great

in science we can travel

across the void of space

but science has not brought heaven

or taught how to live together well

for when two or more human beings are gathered

the results can be a living  hell.

© rt tulley