When I was a kid, I loved astronomy. My parents took me to the Museum of Natural History in New York and my favorite part of the trip was always the planetarium! The Dinosaurs were great… they were huge and frightening and the thought of those big beasts roaming the earth was mind boggling.
But they were the past and I always wanted to look forward.
Point me to the future and to the stars!
Sit back, look up and watch the stars swirl… the booming voice telling you that you are one tiny speck in a galaxy in a solar system in a universe that spans billions and billions of miles and years.
I memorized ALL the planets (and their moons):
MercuryVenusEarthMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNetptune and Pluto.
There was something wonderful about the possibility that in my life time even more planets would be discovered, that we would walk on Mars, that science and knowledge are indeed the resources to find truth, that belief in science and belief in God need not be in opposition; that we can one day …
What? No, you’re wrong.
Pluto is no longer considered a planet? just an ice ball? Not a planet?
Why?
(long pause)
Another truth is revealed: While logic and reasoning do indeed play an important part in science, it evidently is also true that in science (or at least planetary science) as in human nature, size matters (at least to the men determining this sort of thing).
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