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  • Those dreadful hammers
     OP - May 17, 2012, 06:58 PM
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00547d3/In_Our_Time_Fossils/

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    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of fossils.

    In the middle of the nineteenth century the discoveries of the fossil hunters used to worry poor Ruskin to death, he wrote in a letter in 1851,

    “my faith, which was never strong, is being beaten to gold leaf…If only those Geologists would let me alone I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.”


    I do wonder if Islam is actually extremely weak and fragile, and it does not take much for the whole edifice to collapse.  Maybe CEMB members are like the nineteenth century geologists, slowly chipping away.
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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