reading...

dr. robert jastrow on the Big Bang:

for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. he has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

for some reason the last line has been nagging at me for the last few days. maybe its just my overactive imagination imagine some smug scientist struggling up a mountain only for his smirk to be replaced by the realisation that he isnt the first one there...

as the entry suggests, i've been doing some reading these few days. (well, some would be an understatement) been trying to understand this book hs lent me a few weeks ago (but that doesnt compare to the length of time he ate my hitchhikers' guide to galaxy...) but i er, abandoned it for the time being in favour of the 3 easier-to-read books dr hoe gave me on thurs. i'm finished with the first book (except for this chapter which i couldnt understand at all- but that's hardly surprising given my kindergarden knowledge of the bible...) in a nutshell it was abt the authencity of the New Testament. i decided to skip the 2nd book which deals with questions and go straight to the third book first (science and religion) since i figured its more relevant to me. but its an uphill struggle with the big bang theory currently- PHYSICSSSS zzzz. but the chapter on evolution is quite interesting. i have to admit that evolution initially did make some sense to me, but its in direct contradiction to what the bible says about the origins of the world. and somehow, after being constantly bombarded with the thought that empirical knowledge is superior and science, experimentally determined, cannot be wrong, i was quite confused. i guess i forgot abt the distinction between macroevolution and microevolution. microevolution is true because we do see examples of that everywhere, but the evidence for macroevolution is very shaky. some of the evidence for macroevolution has been falsified and there are parts of circular reasoning.

and just for the record, i've been doing a lot of sneaking around when reading. if i get caught... die man. explosion at jurong west coming your way.

travelling light is a nice book. i dont feel like returning it muahahahaaha i really enjoyed the book. but i guess i'm still light years away from living my life as it suggests.. i think for most people its very difficult to admit that we dont have as much control over our lives as we'd like to think we have. for one i confess i hate the idea, but i have to realise that its true. which begets my question again: where does one know if one should continue to struggle, or to just accept what has been given? (guess the context in my life is pretty obvious)

i dont want to stop here like that but i need the toilet quite badly and my mind isnt really churning out words apart from -pee pee pee pee pee- so i think i'd stop here ahhhhhh