Sunday, December 12, 2021

Doing theology in times of science and climate crisis

Science reveals to us many things. We no longer think the earth is the center of the universe. Our planet is like one dot, like the dust, compared with the still-expanding universe in which there are about 200 billion galaxies in 2021. Each galaxy has about 100 billion stars. We belong to the Milky Way. We no longer think of two dimensions of heaven-and-earth. Scientists say Earth is 4.54 billion years old. According to big bang scientists, there was a big bang 13.8 billion years ago, which is the beginning of the current time.  The modern human species, homo sapiens, appeared around 200,000 years ago.

Our planet stands at the brink of collapse because of the climate crisis, which is human-made. What can we do? What theology do we need to explore? Enigmatic questions ensue.