was coined in 1834, by the British Scientific Association,
and coined in fear of it's nearness to the word 'Atheist'.
Since then science has been so brilliant at solving small problems
through an intensity of effort that it belies the generality
of human apathy and myopia.
Where science remains truer to human sloth and evasion
is that the harder it hounds the bigger questions
about the history of life on Earth, the more science
makes it seem like we are at a party and are the last to arrive,
long after many other guests have already left.
And our arrival hastened their departure.
The harder science seeks big answers to the bigger
questions the more it makes myopia look reasonable.
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