Lewis Mumford wrote that modern man has operated under the delusion that man can use science and invention to “fabricate an artificial world infinitely more wonderful than that nature had provided” (The Pentagon of Power p. 11). Mumford believed this contributed to man’s attitude of waste and misuse of natural resources.
If Mumford is correct, the implications are even more serious for Christians. For the Christian, it would not be a waste rooted in the belief that we can design a better world than nature produced, but a waste rooted in the belief that we can produce a world better than God produced. Waste and misuse are not only poor stewardship, they are symptomatic of anthro-deification (the deification of the human species).
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