Why The Titanic shows there is a God At first glance, it's a
statement of the bleedin' obvious. Researchers from Queensland
University in Australia have demonstrated that passengers on the
Titanic in 1912, which took nearly three hours to sink, took
more care to ensure the safety and survival of woman and
children than those in the Lusitania in 1915, which took just 18
minutes to sink. So people in a blind panic act less selflessly
than people who have time to think and, perhaps, face and accept
their impending mortality. Well, you could knock me down with a
white feather from an albatross, floating gently on the breeze
over the fo'c'sle. But the research is important for a
conclusion that the academics of Queensland don't draw. It shows
that people with time to think tend to rise nobly to the higher
human qualities of self-sacrifice, compassion, love for others
and hope in death, rather than mere self-survival. This in turn
implies that these are rational responses, arrived at by reason
rather than instinct,