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The Real Danger when Moral Rules are Lost: Failing Technology, Falling Markets Why is there progress in the physical sciences while the social sciences regress? Why do we have ever more whiz-bang gadgets even as we are losing freedom? Can the trend continue? No, it cannot. There is a twofold threat when people stop believing in God: First, because reason itself comes from God, man loses his ability to use reason as he falls into disbelief. We continue to make progress in the physical sciences because scientists and engineers still follow God's natural law as it relates to things - mathematics, physics, etc. But we are loosing the knowledge we once had in the social sciences - politics, economics, sociology - because people in these fields have discarded God's rules for men - God's law of our human nature. Despite the rapid technological progress of the 20th Century, there are starting to be signs that our technology is failing as the industrialized nations become increasingly post-Christian. The second threat that flows from a loss of moral rules is business - and therefore market - failure. "Capitalism" may be defined as getting ahead by meeting the needs of others. But you can't meet your customers' needs if you don't respect and value your customers. Both markets and successful businesses depend on widespread honesty and on clearly defined property rights. Since 1867 when Congress passes the first law taking property from one group and giving it to another, property rights in America have been becoming fuzzier. And one need only read the newspaper to see that the level of dishonesty has been increasing for a long time. Here are two links that demonstrate the dangers we've discussed. The only cure for this problem is to restore respect for God's moral rules by bringing folks to a relationship with God through Jesus: Why Newer Technology Failed and how Apple Computer May Follow by Bob Moriarty at MacCPU Cafe Pentium 4 In Depth - PC Industry takes huge leap backwards - at emulators.com Workplace Surveillance is No.1 Privacy Issue - at the Privacy Foundation. There is no "right to privacy" in the Constitution, and no need for one where citizens obey moral rules. Where they don't, criminals don't want to get caught, and innocent citizens don't want to be tracked by criminals, hence the Privacy Foundation. Obviously, it's hard to judge whether we are falling behind because, if a product was never produced, we don't know that we missed out on anything. And God has a sense of humor, so sometimes even technologies based on lies - like the RU486 abortion pill - can lead to real productive increases in knowledge. Here's one example: Alien Hunters Devise World's Smallest Microphone - at the Register But if you've been burned by a dishonest merchant, an employee who couldn't care less about the customer, or an outright thief, you're aware of the problem. The bottomline: If an idea doesn't work in the relationship between two people, it won't work in the relationship between a business and its customer, or in the relationship of all economic players to each other in the macro economy.