___One of my obsessions in years past manifested in reading Ancient Greelk literature, history, & biographies. In my current pursuit of Diogenes, I have disposed of any books & jounrals I owned on the subject, so I refer to my general impressions.
___One of the Ancient Greek dead guys put forward the observation that when things get tough, people turn to gods & spells & prayers for their comfort. It is not different today. Science is under siege because it is dificult & it is only relatively difficult because so many in the US live lives of relative ease.
___Any suitably high technology appears as magic (forget who said that?). Few people these days - let alone students - have the ability to give even a rudimentary explanation of radio for example. Whether you understand it or not doesn't affect its working in the least. Magic. TV, computers, cell phones, magnetic bank cards...magic.
___So magic works without understanding it, god stuff is magic, therefore it must work without understanding it. Let us pray.
___Science was under siege in Diogenes time & remains so now. Ignorance is the deadliest sin.
