Sea Shells

[poliphilo]

Explain to me again why we have winter and summer.

It's because the earth tilts on its axis as it flies round the sun and, um, er, something like that...

Sherlock Holmes pretended not to know even that the earth went round the sun. He didn't want to clutter up his peerless brain with useless information.

It amazes me the things scientists say they know. Like the age of the universe and the size of it and all that stuff about black holes.

I take these things on trust, just as I used to take things on trust from bishops and theologians.

I feel uneasy sometimes about being so scornful of creationists. Could I convincingly expound Darwin's Theory of Evolution? Could I fuck!

If Newton said he was like a man picking up shells on the edge of a vast ocean, what does that make me?

I know this, that and the other. Or think I do. Most of it at second-hand.

The leaves turn brown. The air smells cold...

Comments

[ibid.livejournal.com]

This is one of the reasons why I say Science is a religion!

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Finally, even the weatherman must look out his window.

I'm off to church, where I am baffled, frustrated, and sometimes despressed, because what do they know? They know as much as I do, which is pretty much nothing.

If there wasn't a choir, I think I'd quit. That's what I think this morning. And it's getting to be a drag to get up, find my music, drive through traffic--all to sing, and then shut out as best I can the voice in my head that says, "What are you doing here, you hypocrite?"

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

The winter and summer thing I don't have a problem with. I have a fairly firm grasp on that. The light has changed here, even though it's still warm enough to require air conditioning (in the 90's).

But I have a similar problem with the moon. What happens to the moon when it's new? Why are monkeys named after a stage of the moon? And so on.