Underfunded Education:

Many citizens of Third World also lack access to education. Since governments in LDCs do not have funds to provide an educational system for all students, they often create unreasonably hard standardized testing systems to prevent students from graduating; and even when they do pass tests, they are often held back because there simply are not enough resources to support them. Without access to basic and vocational education, new generations in LDCs are being severely limited in both future choices and ability to contribute to country’s development.

Inadequate Access to Nutritious Food:

Much of Third World lacks money and resources to eat or grow a nutritious diet--and instead must subsist on one meal each day of starchy local food staples and vegetables. This leads to severe undernutrition in both adults and children, often-fatal malnutrition-infection cycle in infants and young children, and high-incidence of diabetes in adults. Many people--specifically in certain geographic areas--also lack means to cook meals. This causes those affected to choose between hunger and food- borne illness.

Inadequate Access to Improved Water & Sanitation Facilities:

These two problems are actually intimately linked: in areas where people do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, they often end up contaminating sources of groundwater with human waste, which often leads to spread of worms and water-borne illness. Inadequate access to improved water sources, such as pumps and wells, forces people in geographically isolated areas to spend hours each day just retrieving water, often from dirty sources. This prevents most people from getting an adequate amount of clean drinking water, raising incidence of water-borne illness and general dehydration.

Cardinal John Henry Newman in his age wrote "Apologia Pro Vita Sau" an autobiography hailed as loveliest of all spiritual autobiographies ever written in English language of a man seeking religious affinity. Newman was just one of many seeking elements of truth. The ancient Greek philosophers have always pondered over that word, truth. A test of faith, a quality which refuses to be measured. That which transcends logic and analysis.

A show of faith has always been one venerable aspect of religion, and to great extents part of science. It takes more faith to accept that which is "humanly incomprehensible." Like Big Bang theory, and so many yet unproven postulations of traditional sciences.

The human engine has always been one given to logic and reason; it quests into dark depths and attempts to relate these phenomena of existence into that which can be grasped by senses. And out of beliefs or something close to "racial memory" comes myths and legends, which have governed lives of men from time immemorial.

From Aristotle to modern thinkers like Locke, fundamentals of human life was got from observation and deep introspection. Hence grew science of observation and thought—the pseudo science, philosophy, a discipline in which thought turns upon itself like a revolving gyre.

Out of this broad spectrum journeys forth, religious and scientific philosopher, in a bid to see reason in an existence of chaos. A cosmos of order stands as an archetype from which assumptions can be drawn, or discarded when current fashions change, for that which is more socially "up-beat." But there is this search for stability, found in Microsystems of life. Religion has offered lamp; science spark. And with these we must now inquire.