It has already been fourteen years since the twenty-first century began. I still member that there were many forecasts and ideas of what the new century would be like at it's dawn. Many predicted that scientific knowledge and technology would play significant roles in people's lives in the new millennium. So far that seems to be true. The result of that people seem to have lost the independence to live without technology. When the electric power system fails, almost everything is shut down. We cannot do much about it. Till the power returns, people become impotent, impatient, irritable and abnormal beings, for they don't know what they do!
Science and myth, these cannot normally coexist together at the same time. And mythology and scientific knowledge will not corroborate each other. Generally speaking science is based on experimental proof and evidences, while myth is based on conceptual ideas or traditional beliefs. Nevertheless modern people live with many myths in today's scientifically advanced society. That is one of the great ironies of today. A good example is the fortune cookie served in Chinese restaurants. Most people pick it up not only for a dessert after dinner but also for curiosity of their future. In other words, people are more interested in their future as predicted by a fortune cookie rather than they are in watching their weight after adding up high calories which may affect their future life in a more serious manner. I believe that a certain myth will be hanging around us always no matter in what age we are living.
One of the most popular modern myths is that everyone is different from everyone else. Yes, each individual is created separately in uniqueness with their own special talents and strength. People are not produced by cloning or as one of many items of in a mass production system. Even identical twins are completely different and independent entities in personality, ability and possibility. That is true that each one is different from everyone else.
However that cannot be an excuse to think that each person has to be treated or live differently as if everyone is a different species. Everyone is different, but how much and what is really making each person different from all others? More than 99.9% of human genetic code, body systems and survival mechanisms are the same regardless of race, gender and age differences. Everyone's blood is red and old people's hair become grey. I believe that more than 95% of daily lives are essentially similar with everyone else's in basic things. If that is the case, then I have to wonder why nowadays the voices emphasizing differences are so louder than those recognizing similarity, more on diversity than on unity? That is another modern myth which leads people into more individualistic, isolated and ghettoized living, rather than brings everyone together into communal and harmonious society. God wants His children to live together, rather than live in isolation from others.
