Reverend Benny & Mister Sid's At Your Service #54

By Glen Bledsoe

(Salem) - Well, I suppose it never hurt anyone to believe in the Easter bunny, and if you want to believe that Criss Angel can walk on the surface of a swimming pool, then knock yourself out (but don't watch the Masked Magician). There are times when we willingly suspend our belief system for entertainment. There are times, for example, when it's fun to speculate about the possibility of ghosts. (I've experienced phenomena for which no one has yet provided a reasonable explanation.)

But the science which puts airplanes in the sky (not the Bernoulli effect, by the way) or sends digital images to your high def television has a pretty good track record in getting results. Science really doesn't ask anyone to believe anything. It only has explanations which best fit the evidence. When the evidence changes the theory may have to change as well or be discarded. That's what I like about science. No idea is so sacred that it can't be dropped if it proves to be wrong.

Mark Twain once said, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." A handful of people today approach this from the other end. They doubt what must certainly be true. They love conspiracy theories so much that they willfully deny and spin evidence so the truth twists 180 degrees. If you don't know what I'm talking about just watch Bill O'Reilly for a minute or so. Actually I take that back. Don't watch Bill O'Reilly. I've never watched Bill O'Reilly in all my life nor any of the other curmudgeons from Fox's stables. They're just not my idea of entertainment, and I shouldn't ask the reader to do anything that I wouldn't do myself.

Cheers!
Glen

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