Religion, Natural Calamities And Science

By Tirumala Prasad

According to World Bank estimates, Japan will approximately take 5 years to rebuild the devastated areas. The total loss due to the recent (2011, March) earthquake, tsunami, and atomic radiations is estimated to be $250 billion. Around 10,000 people have lost their lives and some thousands of people seem to be missing due to this recent natural calamity. Several valuable human resources have lost their lives seven years (2004) ago in another tsunami and earthquake in the Indian Ocean.

With the dawn of civilization on the earth, the primitive or first man was bearing most of the natural calamities as he could neither predict nor could take any precautions. Thus there have been severe damages; loss of lives, missing of people, etc. ever since the man was born on the earth. With the passage of time, the human civilization on this earth has learnt many lessons doing wonders due to the unlimited wants of human beings and also heavy competition among the countries of the world. For instance, the invention of modern computers, internet, and mobile phones are some of the most and recent remarkable achievements of man!.

But nature seems to be teaching lessons to the countries of the world to 'not to grow beyond certain limits!'. Even Australia is not spared as this nation too has been losing lives and other infrastructure due to the recurrence of floods and cyclones. Ever since the Second World War, the sincere people of Japan have been working hard and thus the industrious people have made the nation the 3rd largest economy of the world. They worked against many odds or drawbacks such as the dangerous location of the country on the 'Ring of fire', and also scarcity of most of the natural resources.

Several theories such as Plate tectonics theory could explain the causes for the occurrence of earthquakes and tsunamis. According to this theory, the planet earth is made up of several major and minor continental plates and oceanic plates. The movement of these plates is responsible for earth quakes. Tsunamis are earthquakes in the oceans. Thus the human civilization has been making several efforts through "research" to unravel the mysteries of the nature.

Satellite imageries, Underground mining activities, Increase in food and cash crops production and productivity, various marvelous industrial goods, services, etc have been possible through man's efforts for several years in the form of 'technology'. But still we are not successful in either preventing or predicting or both the recurrence certain devastating natural calamities such as earthquakes and tsunamis.

Cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods, landslides, super cyclones, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc are some of the most destructive natural calamities.

MYSTERY:

Science does explain reasons or causes for many natural calamities but one of the main drawbacks with the science is that it has not been helping the civilization in predicting the earthquakes and tsunamis.

Nature is the creation of God. If the natural calamities are the result of God's will, why does he not recognize and reward the hard work of Japanese people?. Is killing many industrious and innocent people through natural calamities a reward? Or a recognition by the nature God and nature mother?.

The scientists of Japan have been doing some miracles in science research, for instance, their contribution to medical science, information technology, biotechnology, etc are noteworthy.

If nature God kills sincere, skillful, efficient, intelligent, and talented people cruelly and relentlessly, the human civilization may question the need to pray to God!

If the deaths due to natural calamities are fate, many enlightened people have been enhancing their life span by various methods such as changing life habits, utilizing the developments in medical science, etc.

AMAZING SCIENCE:

Necessity is the mother of invention. Science and Scientists have been making our lives easy through research and discoveries. Thus science could satisfy most of the human wants, for instance the gap between demand and supply of food crops could easily be satisfied by using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, high yielding varieties of seeds, machinery, etc. Similarly, the natural resources could easily be assessed by using satellite imagery through remote sensing.

Our scientists need to be in a hurry to invent reliable and innovative methods to predict the devastating natural calamities. If they do, nations such as Japan need not lose most valuable human resources, wealth, etc repeatedly. In other words, the nations of the world can prosper without worrying much about disastrous natural calamities.

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