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To: Neocon who wrote (1505)9/9/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: MikeH  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6418
 
Was it Sagan that said,

The technology of a sufficiently advanced culture will appear as magic to the primitive culture.

As magic and religion have been, and are still, intertwined. Sufficiently advanced science is still esoteric magic to the common person.

John Q. Public thinks a quark is a character on Star Trek, and string theory applies to yo-yos.

Student "So then, where do gluons come from?"
Teacher "They just do damnit!"

Child "So where did God come from?"
Priest "He just always was, damnit!"