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LostAngeles · 22nd August 2005, 10:33 AM

In the May 2005 issue, National Geographic ran a story about Einstein, his life's work, and the continuation of it. This month they've printed letters with regards to that issue. Here's a rather amusing and disturbing one.

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Over the nearly 50 years that I have subscribed to National Geographic,I have often chuckled at scientists expounding or scratching their heads over matters that have been settled for me long ago by my faith in God. Your article says, "Something out there holds swarms of galaxies together and keeps their stars from flying apart, but scientists still haven't learned what this invisible substance is." Although I am familar with the many names of God, this is the first time I have heard Him called Dark Matter."

So does he subscribe to N.G. because it's like Mad Magazine for him or because it's the closest he can get to Playboy? Does God fill in all the gaps in scientific knowledge for him? Does he accept germ theory and antibiotics of does God still do it? What about lightning and gravity and such?

It's one thing to allow God to fill in the temporary gaps and say, "Ah. Well evolution/the weak nuclear force/whatever is the handicraft of God," once you've got a good theory and another to point and laugh that people are looking into this because you "know" that Goddidit.

Ashles · 22nd August 2005, 10:39 AM

Why did they even print the letter? Just to annoy their readers?

LostAngeles · 22nd August 2005, 11:37 AM

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Originally posted by Ashles
Why did they even print the letter? Just to annoy their readers?

Because they're willing to voice the opinions of their less... of their readers, I think, regardless of what those opinions are.

And for the laugh.

fishbait · 22nd August 2005, 10:28 PM

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Originally posted by Ashles
Why did they even print the letter? Just to annoy their readers?

Spock Thoughts
"Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story to tell!"

22nd August 2005, 10:33 AM	#1
LostAngeles Anti-WM Jihadist Join Date: May 2004 Location: Having a cup of tea. Posts: 10,159	A Letter to National Geographic. In the May 2005 issue, National Geographic ran a story about Einstein, his life's work, and the continuation of it. This month they've printed letters with regards to that issue. Here's a rather amusing and disturbing one. Quote: Over the nearly 50 years that I have subscribed to National Geographic,I have often chuckled at scientists expounding or scratching their heads over matters that have been settled for me long ago by my faith in God. Your article says, "Something out there holds swarms of galaxies together and keeps their stars from flying apart, but scientists still haven't learned what this invisible substance is." Although I am familar with the many names of God, this is the first time I have heard Him called Dark Matter." So does he subscribe to N.G. because it's like Mad Magazine for him or because it's the closest he can get to Playboy? Does God fill in all the gaps in scientific knowledge for him? Does he accept germ theory and antibiotics of does God still do it? What about lightning and gravity and such? It's one thing to allow God to fill in the temporary gaps and say, "Ah. Well evolution/the weak nuclear force/whatever is the handicraft of God," once you've got a good theory and another to point and laugh that people are looking into this because you "know" that Goddidit.
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22nd August 2005, 10:39 AM	#2
Ashles Pith Artist Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The '80s Posts: 8,711	Why did they even print the letter? Just to annoy their readers?
	__________________ With extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat. - Jeffrey Burton Russell No one "proved" that a bumblebee can't fly. What was shown was that a certain simple mathematical model wasn't adequate or appropriate - Ivars Peterson

22nd August 2005, 11:37 AM	#3
LostAngeles Anti-WM Jihadist Join Date: May 2004 Location: Having a cup of tea. Posts: 10,159	Quote: Originally posted by Ashles Why did they even print the letter? Just to annoy their readers? Because they're willing to voice the opinions of their less... of their readers, I think, regardless of what those opinions are. And for the laugh.
	__________________ "There is also a likelihood that the settlement will fall between two biomes, potentially hazardous if the player expects a peaceful oceanside meadow, without realizing the ocean is full of amphibious zombie whales." - Dwarf Fortress Wik

22nd August 2005, 10:28 PM	#4
fishbait Raggin' the Blues Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New York Posts: 1,013	Quote: Originally posted by Ashles Why did they even print the letter? Just to annoy their readers? Spock Thoughts "Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story to tell!"
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