Sri Lanka Has No Choice But To Get On Bandwagon Of Miracles
By W.A Wijewardena-July 8, 2013
Dr. W.A. Wijewardena
Miracle of technology – The Second Industrial Revolution is in the offing
Tomorrow’s technology is a miracle today
Oxford University’s former free thinking evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has concluded his latest bestseller ‘The Magic of Reality’ with a quotation from the world renowned futurist and science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke has said that technology tomorrow when viewed from today’s perspectives is really a “miracle”.
A few dozen of miracles shaping in the West today
Miracles are not unknown to mankind since from time immemorial people have taken relish in them when they were reduced to utter helplessness by the constraints of the laws of nature. Hence, according to David Hume, the 18th Century Scottish philosopher and free thinker, miracles are simply instances of beating or transgressing the nature’s dictates.
