Oh c'mon, do we have to do this? A story making the blog rounds attempts to explain one of the miracles of Jesus, explaining that when the folks of the New Testament saw Jesus walking on water maybe he was really walking on an ice floe. Why bother? Jesus walking on water is a miracle. We scientists don't do miracles. Trying to figure out what happened 2000 years after a miracle occurred is a straw man: you can't know what people were looking at, or why they thought Jesus was walking on water, if indeed somebody saw him doing that, if indeed there was a historical 'Jesus'.
There's a great quote I know of, in which the amazing and dearly-lamented Steven Jay Gould discusses the gap between science and religion, which is not a gap so much as a case of different magisteria--different realms of knowledge. I thought I'd made it a quote of the week, but apparently not, so here it is: Stephen Jay Gould on Non-Overlapping Magisteria.
Seriously. Let's get used to asking some Better Questions.
Boing Boing | Jesus maybe walked on ice, scientist suggests
There's a great quote I know of, in which the amazing and dearly-lamented Steven Jay Gould discusses the gap between science and religion, which is not a gap so much as a case of different magisteria--different realms of knowledge. I thought I'd made it a quote of the week, but apparently not, so here it is: Stephen Jay Gould on Non-Overlapping Magisteria.
Seriously. Let's get used to asking some Better Questions.
Boing Boing | Jesus maybe walked on ice, scientist suggests
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