RE: Sheikh clings to geocentricity
February 18, 2015 at 6:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2015 at 6:55 am by Cyberman.)
I actually felt myself losing braincells watching that.
It reminded me of a scene in "Old Bones of the River", the 1938 Will Hay take on "Sanders of the River". Hay, a schoolmaster, has set up a school at a British colonial fort in Africa to educate the native children. He is being told off by the fort's commander for teaching astronomy (incidentally Hay's real life passion), because the revelation that the Earth rotates West to East is causing confusion among the fort's troops, who are waiting for the parade ground to come to them of a morning. Hay laughs and remarks on how silly that is - after all, their barracks are in the West.
That scene was of course written and played for comedy. What's this guy's excuse for ignorance?
It reminded me of a scene in "Old Bones of the River", the 1938 Will Hay take on "Sanders of the River". Hay, a schoolmaster, has set up a school at a British colonial fort in Africa to educate the native children. He is being told off by the fort's commander for teaching astronomy (incidentally Hay's real life passion), because the revelation that the Earth rotates West to East is causing confusion among the fort's troops, who are waiting for the parade ground to come to them of a morning. Hay laughs and remarks on how silly that is - after all, their barracks are in the West.
That scene was of course written and played for comedy. What's this guy's excuse for ignorance?
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.'
