Here’s one from the Phoenix Baptist Church Newsletter: HUBBLE TROUBLE It seems there’s trouble with the Hubble. You know, that multi- kazillion-dollar telescope currently floating 380 miles above the planet, peering myopically at distant galaxies. Somebody ground the lens wrong, and now the 43-foot-long marvel, which was supposed to see the ends of the universe …
THE WRONG HORSE WON Two Kentucky farmers who owned racing stables had developed a keen rivalry. One spring, each of them entered a horse in a local steeplechase. Thinking that a professional rider might help him outdo his friend, one of the farmers engaged a crack jockey. The two horses were leading the race at …
TRUST IS NOT ENOUGH There was once a young son from an experienced veteran general. He had never been in battle, but he had thoroughly studied war strategy and history. His father, an experienced general agreed with his son’s strategy most of time, but he never used his son in battle. He told his son, …
LIAR ALARM You see, God puts an alarm system in you if you are a Christian. A missionary to the Native Americans took a converted Indian chief to Los Angeles. They were walking down the street and a false teacher was standing on the corner with a Bible, preaching false doctrine. The missionary was afraid …
A SIMPLE PROBLEM The problem with a simple solution is that it is often the wrong one.
DOUBTFUL CONFIDENCE Egoist: Someone never in doubt, but often in error. From The Rotarian, July, 1994 and
THE BELIEFS OF SCIENCE Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or modify what it once believed. Sometimes it ends by accepting what it has previously scorned. The simplistic idea that science marches undeviatingly down an ever …
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