In order to graduate from any university, you are required to take a certain number of credits in all fields of study. Before I go any further, let me tell you that I am a secondary english education major. I have had to take one math course, one anthropology course, one Bible course, a Spanish course, and one astronomy course so far in order to satisfy my general education requirements. Almost. I still have to take one more science course and a corresponding lab. Maybe it's just me, but this seems a little out of balance. One math course and two and a half science courses? Really?
Well, just to get it over with, I've enrolled in a science course and a lab for six weeks out of my summer. I decided to go with a Geography 107 course where I'll learn about earth formations and why they are where they are. Sounds pretty easy.
Within the first three pages of the text book, I was informed that there are two north poles. The north magnetic pole and the north rotational pole.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR SANTA?!?!!?!?!?!
Clearly science and my fantasy worlds cannot intermingle. Had I been able to stop after my first science course, I would still be able to pretend to believe in the jolly, seasonal symbol of the holidays.
I hate science because in order to believe in science, one must believe in a reason for everything. I much prefer to believe in the arcane and mysterious forces at work in the world. Science may have killed Santa, but science will never kill fairies or hobgoblins. This I swear.
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You can... maybe he lives at the North rational pole... maybe you may have assumed that he lived at the North magnetic pole, because you did not know the difference?
ReplyDeleteSee, this is why you should love science! It means there is a magnetic Santa and a rotational Santa!!!
ReplyDelete-Joshua