>Glenn, you being a geologist, I thought you might get a kick out of a quote
>from one of my all time favorite writers, Tom Wolfe. It's from an article
> in
>the current Forbes ASAP. It's a riff on future technology and current
> science,
>among other things. Here is how the article ends:
>
>******
> Recently I happened to be talking to a prominent California
>geologist, and she told me: "When I first went into geology, we
>all thought that in science you create a solid layer of findings,
>through experiment and careful investigation, and then you add a
>second layer, like a second layer of bricks, all very carefully,
>and so on. Occasionally some adventurous scientist stacks the
>bricks up in towers, and these towers turn out to be
>insubstantial and they get torn down, and you proceed again with
>the careful layers. But we now realize that the very first layers
>aren't even resting on solid ground. They are balanced on
>bubbles, on concepts that are full of air, and those bubbles are
>being burst today, one after the other."
> I suddenly had a picture of the entire astonishing edifice
>collapsing and modern man plunging headlong back into the
>primordial ooze. He's floundering, sloshing about, gulping for
>air, frantically treading ooze, when he feels something huge and
>smooth swim beneath him and boost him up, like some almighty
>dolphin. He can't see it, but he's much impressed. He names it
>God.
I just love anonymous quotes. They are so verifiable. This quote gives me no
clue as to what scientific theories she is talking about? Is it continental
drift? Sedimentology? All knowledge?
This lady needs prozac!
glenn
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