\u201cScience! true daughter of Old Time thou art!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nWho alterest all things with thy peering eyes.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nWhy preyest thou thus upon the poet\u2019s heart,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nVulture, whose wings are dull realities?<\/span><\/div>\nHow should he love thee? or how deem thee wise?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nWho wouldst not leave him in his wandering<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nTo seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nAlbeit he soared with an undaunted wing?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nHast thou not dragged Diana from her car?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nAnd driven the Hamadryad from the wood<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nTo seek a shelter in some happier star?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nHast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nThe Elfin from the green grass, and from me<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nThe summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/div>\n\u2013 Edgar Allan Poe, \u201cSonnet to Science\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, it\u2019s a joke or dismissed\u00a0nonchalantly\u00a0as a cosmic coincidence. \u00a0 So, which is it? \u00a0Joke? \u00a0Cosmic coincidence? \u00a0Or does it mean something? \u00a0I often think the way we read such things speaks more for our time and place in history than\u00a0necessarily\u00a0a clear and objective standard for how everyone should\u00a0obviously\u00a0read such things. \u00a0Especially as my faith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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