The development of the atomic bomb illustrated this. Many scientists, pressured by the exigencies of war, participated in the research which led to the production of the bomb and then repented afterwards having taken any part in the creation of so frightful an explosive. Jacques Ellul identifies the most damaging and reprehensible quality of modern civilization as our respect for facts. At the present time . All that is a fact is justified, because it is a fact.
People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it.
Technology is not an evil in itself. It is one of the means by which we ought to pursue the mandate God has given of having dominion over the creation. The critical factor is the worldview that underlies a technique. Technique has no meaning apart from some informing vision. And technique today is informed of the great modern myth.