tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post7997799461200324182..comments2023-02-08T03:16:24.937-05:00Comments on Saturday Morning @ The Story-of- Everything Place: Is the Bible a Story of Everything?John Kotrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471048328678222796noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-40310254803698531322007-08-01T16:26:00.000-04:002007-08-01T16:26:00.000-04:00Keats, on being the first to see . . On First Look...Keats, on being the first to see . . <BR/><BR/>On First Looking into Chapman's Homer <BR/><BR/> Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,<BR/> And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;<BR/> Round many western islands have I been<BR/> Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.<BR/> Oft of one wide expanse had I been told<BR/> That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; <BR/> Yet did I never breathe its pure serene<BR/> Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:<BR/> Then felt I like some watcher of the skies<BR/> When a new planet swims into his ken;<BR/> Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes<BR/> He stared at the Pacific – and all his men<BR/> Looked at each other with a wild surmise–<BR/> Silent, upon a peak in Darien.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-92168149500994889842007-08-01T16:21:00.000-04:002007-08-01T16:21:00.000-04:00Hi, TerryWell, I did what I suspect you've already...Hi, Terry<BR/><BR/>Well, I did what I suspect you've already done - Googled "Galilean satellites" and found the following site from the Jet Propulsion Lab <BR/>(http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ganymede/discovery.html). The article credits Galileo with their discovery, but does mention competing claims by Simon Marius without indicating whether Marius's observations were made by eye or using some optical aid. I did run across a reference to a paper published in 1982 by an historian of astronomy named Xi Zezong, <BR/>who claimed that Gan De, a Chinese astronomer, may have seen one of <BR/>Jupiter's moons in 362 BC, however, but I didn't try to pull up the full article in Chinese Physics to check out the details.<BR/><BR/>Sorry I can't be more help on this one. Perhaps Burtt will have something better to offer. Good luck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-74911564489698908592007-08-01T15:59:00.000-04:002007-08-01T15:59:00.000-04:00Don:You might have seen John Kotre's blog, which i...Don:<BR/><BR/>You might have seen John Kotre's blog, which is interesting in many <BR/>ways, but in one episode he mentioned the Galilean moons of Jupiter, and <BR/>how no one had seen them before Galileo saw them through the <BR/>telescope. I always thought that they had been seen by many observers, <BR/>but that previous viewers didn't realize that they were actually <BR/>satellites of Jupiter before Galileo observed them passing behind the <BR/>planet and re-emerging. So his "seeing" wasn't with his eyes or the <BR/>telescope, but with his reason.<BR/><BR/>I know you're a real astronomer and not a historian of science, but <BR/>thought you might know the short answer to this. Or maybe I should go <BR/>and see if I can find my copy of E.A. Burtt's book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-65549716464549503542007-07-25T19:44:00.000-04:002007-07-25T19:44:00.000-04:00"Is the Bible a Story of Everything?" is a rhetori..."Is the Bible a Story of Everything?" is a rhetorical question, as it most surely is not. Consider where we might be today if we had only the Bible to educate us and guide our way in the world. We would be living as the Old Testament writers themselves lived. Any writing is a reflection of its author, with its author's strengths and limitations.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06954976746138640404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-26365665073755010172007-07-25T10:34:00.000-04:002007-07-25T10:34:00.000-04:00I checked out both "Blogging the Bible" and "Faith...I checked out both "Blogging the Bible" and "Faithbooking." "Blogging" will give you a fresh look at what actually is being said in the Bible, i.e., what is "literally" there. It's surprising. "Faithbooking" seems to be a movement among Christian women to tell the story of their spiritual development. You can check it out by Googling "Faithbooking." I'd like to hear of similar movements in other faith (and secular) traditions that involve understandings of the cosmos.<BR/><BR/>Thanks to Paul and Caroline for the referrals.<BR/><BR/>John KotreJohn Kotrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02471048328678222796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-86003850963680481272007-07-24T13:03:00.000-04:002007-07-24T13:03:00.000-04:00A new "in" trend is the practice (spiritual practi...A new "in" trend is the practice (spiritual practice?, discipline?) of <B>"Faithbooking"</B> -Faithbooking is much what you are describing on your site in the sections <I>Your Cosmology</I> and <I>Your Journey</I> and what you have done with the site in general with your pictures and blogs. Faithbooking is a combination of keeping a photo album (or "scrapbooking") and journaling your own <I>"story of everything"</I> or "faith development" - whatever that faith or even non-faith may be. The album with journal can be short or long, specific, or non-specific, woven aroung a grace (gift) that came to you, or around someone(s) special to you. It's just another way of doing this, of writing "memories" to preserve them along with visual reminders, pictures. It's a practice I've newly come to think about and to start doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-20741217477006580522007-07-23T17:59:00.000-04:002007-07-23T17:59:00.000-04:00By any chance did you read the year-long series "B...By any chance did you read the year-long series "Blogging the Bible" on <BR/>Slate? I thought it was an excellent analysis, paragraph by paragraph <BR/>through the entire Old Testament (Hebrew Bible). The writer went at it <BR/>from the point of view of a non-expert. He didn't use any commentary, <BR/>but did receive considerable feedback from his readers.<BR/><BR/>Here's the link: <BR/>http://www.slate.com/id/2141050/<BR/><BR/>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-31542753180511771682007-07-20T20:11:00.000-04:002007-07-20T20:11:00.000-04:00There was a time in my life when I desperately wan...There was a time in my life when I desperately wanted to believe the Bible <I><B>was</B></I> the Story of Everything. My gradual discovery that it was not able to live up to this demand is a chapter in my version of <I><B>The Story of Everything.</B></I>Sharon Lippincotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269757107845288737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-3286265903179982512007-07-20T19:39:00.000-04:002007-07-20T19:39:00.000-04:00While the Bible is meant to explain much, it isn't...While the Bible is meant to explain much, it isn't a science book. It is the story of a people and their god. Through those people the whole world was to know this god. That didn't happen quite the way it was intended. Anyway, the Bible could, in one sense be a story about everything, in an existential sense. But just as you wouldn't read "A Tale of Two Cities" as a guide to visit Paris, you might consult it to find out what human beings are like and what drives them. <BR/><BR/>P.S. It's good to see you're still thinking, Prof. K.Scothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00388601523552728143noreply@blogger.com