[meteorite-list] An Anthropologist's look at Kansas:Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri May 13 15:58:16 2005
Message-ID: <428506B5.3C683207_at_bhil.com>

Michael L Blood wrote:
>> oh, don't forget the world rests on the back of a turtle! <<

    Thomas Huxley was once confronted during one of his lectures by an elderly
woman who was an ardent supporter of the Theosophist version of the Hindu
cosmology of the world resting on the back of a turtle. He thought he could
short-circuit this rather long-winded questioner by asking her, "And pray tell us,
madam, what is the turtle standing on?"
    The woman pointed her umbrella at him accusingly, "It's no use, young man; you
can't wiggle out of it so easily -- it's Turtles all the way down!!"

Sterling K. Webb
Received on Fri 13 May 2005 03:57:41 PM PDT