The Purpose of Science...

This entire semester I have been asking my astronomy teacher questions leading up to the question: “What is the goal of science?” He has humored my pestering questions pretty graciously considering that he really doesn’t seem to care much about the answers, but because he doesn’t care, he has been able to offer very little assistance to my cause as I try to get inside the worldview of the atheistic evolutionist. Well, today at nearly the last lecture of the semester, he played us a video that apparently attempted to answer that question. Here it is:

The importance of studying science is to locate orbital asteroids that are on a direct course to collide with the planet earth so that we can shoot rockets at them in order to deter them from hitting the planet, thereby prolonging the existence of the human race.

There you have it. The atheistic scientist says that the reason we should study science, like the reason we should do anything else, is to continue to exist.

All in all: the reason we exist is to continue to exist.

With all his faults, at least my teacher’s methodology coincides with his worldview. Since the only value of education is survival, and since lab assignments offer no contribution to this goal, today he gave us credit for yet another lab assignment we didn’t do. By the way, as was expected, the rest of his students greatly approved.

I thought that maybe I should write a letter to the school, thinking that they should know that one of their teachers had almost completely failed to teach. This thought was somewhat deterred when a science teacher from another department came into lab today and, in conjunction with our teacher, offered us the compromised grade so that he and my teacher could go to lunch early. Yay for teachers who live out their worldview!

Moral of their story: eat, drink and have sex. Life is nothing more than an accidental existence anyway. Hey, worse comes to worst, we are all extinct like the dinosaurs and nature/slime is stirred up and gets the chance to evolve an even more intelligent species. Isn’t that a happy thought?