Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time." -- Martin Luther

[To Christians celebrating on the Orthodox calendar, Happy Easter -- Χριστος Ανεστη! Health permitting, I'll be headed to Mom's house later today for Easter dinner. And yes, I realize I quoted one of the fathers of Protestantism on an Orthodox holiday.]

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time." -- Martin Luther

[To Christians celebrating on the Orthodox calendar, Happy Easter -- Χριστος Ανεστη! Health permitting, I'll be headed to Mom's house later today for Easter dinner. And yes, I realize I quoted one of the fathers of Protestantism on an Orthodox holiday.]

[I should be asleep but leg cramps keep interfering.]

I just had a rather distracting mental image: dead anthropologists roaming around Heaven taking a census and interviewing people, trying to find the earliest humans present there, in order to figure out at what point in human evolution we started having souls.

That would be an unscientific question here among the living unless someone concocts an experiment that will demonstrate or falsify the existence of the soul in scientific terms, but presumably a scientist in Heaven would consider the existence question resolved (after sufficient observation to determine what was going on), and would feel free to continue conducting science based on the data newly available to hir. (And, of course, if there's no afterlife after all, then there's no scientist in the afterlife to do science there and this paragraph becomes moot, so I don't feel bad about phrasing it as assuming the existence of the afterlife. Pbbbt!)

I wonder what other science experiments dead scientists might wind up performing in the hereafter.

[I should be asleep but leg cramps keep interfering.]

I just had a rather distracting mental image: dead anthropologists roaming around Heaven taking a census and interviewing people, trying to find the earliest humans present there, in order to figure out at what point in human evolution we started having souls.

That would be an unscientific question here among the living unless someone concocts an experiment that will demonstrate or falsify the existence of the soul in scientific terms, but presumably a scientist in Heaven would consider the existence question resolved (after sufficient observation to determine what was going on), and would feel free to continue conducting science based on the data newly available to hir. (And, of course, if there's no afterlife after all, then there's no scientist in the afterlife to do science there and this paragraph becomes moot, so I don't feel bad about phrasing it as assuming the existence of the afterlife. Pbbbt!)

I wonder what other science experiments dead scientists might wind up performing in the hereafter.

Trying to get three children in the same photo for a candid shot ... after dessert ... Oy! They're as much trouble to photograph as awake kittens!"

Trying to get three children in the same photo for a candid shot ... after dessert ... Oy! They're as much trouble to photograph as awake kittens!"