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...viewing on Manatee’s website. “In a field exercise one night, I found myself bedded down without so much as a poncho to protect me from the elements. I woke for guard duty at about 3 a.m., stiff and shivering, to find the sky had opened up and was snowing on my face...
...stereotype,” Martin-Kao said. She added that she was conscious of picking photos that “weren’t the postcard of a place.” The best in show went to a unique depiction of typical Mongolian dwellings against an illuminated night sky, shot by Dustin M. Saldarriaga ‘06. “Mongolia’s definitely an exotic and exciting place,” Saldarriaga said, adding that the country lent itself to photography. Saldarriaga took over 900 pictures during his four months in the country...
...inaction. Why am I the messenger? Because my years of scientific research have made me a renowned expert on my topic: God. Just kidding. You'll soon see what I mean. Let me pose you a question, not about God but about the heavens: "Why is the sky blue?" I offer two answers: 1) The sky is blue because of the wavelength dependence of Rayleigh scattering; 2) The sky is blue because blue is the color God wants...
Before we understood Rayleigh scattering, there was no scientifically satisfactory explanation for the sky's blueness. The idea that the sky is blue because God wants it to be blue existed before scientists came to understand Rayleigh scattering, and it continues to exist today, not in the least undermined by our advance in scientific understanding. The religious explanation has been supplemented--but not supplanted--by advances in scientific knowledge. We now may, if we care to, think of Rayleigh scattering as the method God has chosen to implement his color scheme...
...future generation of scientists, you don't draw a box around all our scientific understanding to date and say, "Everything outside this box we can explain only by invoking God's will." Back in 1855, no one told the future Lord Rayleigh that the scientific reason for the sky's blueness is that God wants it that way. Or if someone did tell him that, we can all be happy that the youth was plucky enough to ignore them. For science, intelligent design is a dead-end idea...