RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 31, 2012 at 9:41 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2012 at 9:41 pm by Cyberman.)
Aoplogies. It was an extremely oblique and obscure mini-reference to a story attributed to Sir Arthur Eddington with regard to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity:
Quote:Because the theory was so complex and abstruse (even today it is popularly considered the pinnacle of scientific thinking; in the early years it was even more so), it was rumored that only three people in the world understood it. There was an illuminating, though probably apocryphal, anecdote about this. As related by Ludwik Silberstein, during one of Eddington's lectures he asked "Professor Eddington, you must be one of three persons in the world who understands general relativity." Eddington paused, unable to answer. Silberstein continued "Don't be modest, Eddington!" Finally, Eddington replied "On the contrary, I'm trying to think who the third person is."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'