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In those days Pt. 3

Started by Kai, March 14, 2010, 12:47:39 PM

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March 14, 2010, 12:47:39 PM
The sun revolves around the earth, you see? I mean, you would have had to see it, because it doesn't happen like this anymore. The sun rose in the east and set in the west, against the backdrop of the fixed stars the planets the moon moved in spiralling circles around the earth all in a great clockwork with occassional portents of comets the eclipsed sun and moon a sign of the Christian God. Anybody who looked up could see it.

Now it is different. You can still see the movements but they are different movements. The godlike Gallileo took to the heavens with his great eyes and made the earth move, stopped the sun in place and the planets moved round it, he said Look at what I have done, the earth moves round the sun and the planets too. And He and Kepler saw it and it was good. And Newton too took to the heavens and he made the planets move in ellipses, and he said See, I have made them move in ellipses and not spirals. And it was good.


Sometimes our eyes deceive us when we look up and out, the world still seems flat even though we know Aristarchus measured it round long ago, that god, He was followed by Columbus and Vespucci and Drake, the sons of The Wanderer who made it fully round. That is, until it was recast as an oblate spheroid.

Our gods of science make and remake the universe from those early days when the universe was made by every in their own image, they take and reform day to day, the once fixed types unfixed, the once fixed stars come loose, the once whole and uncutable pieces of matter cut. And they said it was good, and so it was.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

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March 14, 2010, 12:56:29 PM
I LIKE IT :D :D
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March 15, 2010, 04:16:21 PM
Ooh, more allegory.  I like it...great juxtaposition and comparison of the science vs. religion phenomenon.

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March 15, 2010, 05:23:02 PM
:mittens: that was fantastic, Kai!
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March 15, 2010, 11:07:49 PM
I really like this, it ties in so much with thoughts and conversations I have with my friends.  Which basically concluded that science is just what we know so far.  And this is such a beautiful and powerful way of expressing that idea.
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