I'm reading a book right now, *A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Each chapter goes something like this:
For hundreds of years, scientists believed this. Until about 1972, when they realized that the this they'd always believed was completely bogus and something else is really the truth. Or, at least, it might be. They're not quite sure.
The book (and history) follow this pattern when discussing outer space, sub-atomic particles, earth's atmosphere, earth's core, dinosaurs, and more. And I haven't even reached the chapters on life yet.
Isn't it amazing that after thousands (or billions) of years, we humans really don't fully understand anything?
Isn't it comforting to serve a God who does?
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Save that book for me. I'll want it when I come to visit.
Dave says this all the time as it relates to medicine. He'll say, how can we be confident in this particular medicine or course of action when just thirty years ago we were so sure that it should be treated another way which we now know to be totally wrong? (or something to that affect)
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