A group of men are gathered around a fire late at night two millenia ago. They've been traveling from village to village and city to city selling their goods and have met peoples speaking different languages. They wonder and discuss how this could happen. They have been to Egypt and seen the Great Pyramids.
They are also slightly drunk on this night, imagination takes flight and one of them writes it down the next day. Subsequently someone else thinks it's a plausable explanantion and includes it in a compendium of collected short stories that attempt to explain the world around them.
OK, maybe it didn't happen exactly like that but it is simply one more instance of man's attempt to explain the unknown. The problem arises when new knowledge is attained but some people refuse to abandon the old explanations.
Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. Science advances one funeral at a time. - Max Planck
They are also slightly drunk on this night, imagination takes flight and one of them writes it down the next day. Subsequently someone else thinks it's a plausable explanantion and includes it in a compendium of collected short stories that attempt to explain the world around them.
OK, maybe it didn't happen exactly like that but it is simply one more instance of man's attempt to explain the unknown. The problem arises when new knowledge is attained but some people refuse to abandon the old explanations.
Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. Science advances one funeral at a time. - Max Planck
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
