GeoT{Ie J. Dyer
Preface
The articles in this. Spring issue are varied .enough, we believe, to hold the attention of ali our readers. ln SPEAK OF THE DEVIL we soon find that Charles Meyer has not written just another article in the genus diaboli. "Current theology," he says, "can hardly consider the issue of the existence of angels and devils without adverting to scientific investigation of extra-terrestrial !ife forms." No, C.M. has not giveri up theology for science fiction. What he is suggesting is an enth¡ely new route into man's experience. The "mythology of science" is the operative phrase here. \Ve are ali aware that philosophy provided speculative theology with its conceptual coinage from New Testament times up to the pait century. The author points out that science will most likely take its place as the focal point of radical human knowledge. There is nothing, moreover, in our religions tradition that would preelude the speculative correlation of a very ancient religions¡ belief and the belief of modern science in the existence of intelligent !ife in outer space. TWO MORAL CASES is also an excursion into the world of science. Perhaps you have heard of the surgeon who faced a charging bull armed only with a transmitter. At the last moment he stopped the hurtling animal by transmitting a signal to an electrode planted in the bull's brain. The picture summons up memories of A Clockwork Oranue or The Terminal Man with their star-tling images of behavior control. Could a moralist for instance really make ali men conform to a single ethical code? John Dedek examines the present state of the science as weil as its ethical implications. 3
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