I Don't Fear God- I Fear His

The Whole History Of Science Has Been The Gradual Realization That Events Do Not Happen In An Arbitrary Manner, But That They Reflect A Certain Underlying Order, Which May Or May Not Be Divinely Inspired.

Bodies Like The Earth Are Not Made To Move On Curved Orbits By A Force Called Gravity; Instead, They Follow The Nearest Thing To A Straight Path In A Curved Space, Which Is Called A Geodesic. A Geodesic Is The Shortest (or Longest) Path Between Two Nearby Points.

In The Last 200 Years The Population Of Our Planet Has Grown Exponentially, At A Rate Of 1.9% Per Year. If It Continued At This Rate, With The Population Doubling Every 40 Years, By 2600 We Would All Be Standing Literally Shoulder To Shoulder.

Not To Take This Web Of Dualities As A Sign We Are On The Right Track Would Be A Bit Like Believing That God Put Fossils Into The Rocks In Order To Mislead Darwin About The Evolution Of Life.

There Are Plenty Of Dead Scientists I Admire, But I Can't Think Of Any Living Ones. This Is Probably Because It Is Only In Retrospect That One Can See Who Made The Important Contributions.