Amazing birds. Just amazing.

Amazing birds. Just amazing. October 28, 2016

 

male frigatebird near Kauai
A great frigatebird off of Kilauea Point, Kauai, Hawaii  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

One atheist reader of my blog likes to portray me as somebody who hates and fears science, and who uses it only to elicit “wows.”

 

He’s profoundly wrong on the first accusation, of course, but, with his second, he comes several light years closer to the truth than he commonly does:

 

I do think that much about the universe and the natural world is perfectly astounding.

 

This article might supply you with one or two more such astonishing facts:

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/27/499635084/this-bird-can-remain-airborne-for-10-months-straight

 

If so, I’ll be pleased.  But I still won’t hate science, or fear it.

 

 


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