My son told me he thinks the people living in ancient times were really ignorant. I told him that they didn’t know any better, since their science was very rudimentary. They did the best they could with the little they could understand about the world they lived in.
“Yeah, I know that” he told me. “But still, so much of what they believed was just so far off. I mean who could seriously believe that the weather was some kind of magic, and they were always getting stuck in storms or earthquakes?”
“Well, again, they didn’t know what we know, and they couldn’t do what we can do”.
“I am so glad I wasn’t born in those days. I can’t imagine trying to live without my holoscopiter, and having to type words on some kind of device whenever I want to tell you something”.
“I know. The age of devices was pretty brutal. People barely lived for a hundred years and had to spend most of their time doing something called ‘work’. We still can’t figure out what that meant”.
“Right, and they had to get on a device that flew through the air and took hours to go from one place to another, never mind being stuck on one silly little planet”.
“Well, they knew nothing about the 5th law of gravitational entropy or the theory of peribolenism, so they couldn’t imagine interplanetary telepathy or galactic teleportation”.
“And they thought the speed of light was constant. What idiots”.
“No son, they just didn’t know any better. They even thought that what they considered to be science was the last word, and that it disproved God”.
He laughed. “You mean they didn’t know about Rogerton’s proof”?
“No, that was published only a few centuries ago. I heard Rogerton speak once, when I was about your age. Brilliant man. I saw recently that he is quite close to God these days and is still publishing his ideas in the Journal of Heavenly Truth”.
The Book of Works 
OK, Sy, you’ve got me curious. I can see this “talk” takes place in the future but the part about Rogerton’s proof and his “Journal of Heavenly Truth” has me wondering if you are pointing to something that is available now, as in “published only a few centuries ago”? I was going to wait and see if someone else added a note that would shed some light on this so that my ignorance was not self evident, but curiosity compels me to just ask right away and let the chips fall where they may! Just a side note: I just woke up and it is highly possible that all my mindful cylinders aren’t functioning as they should be! Blessings brother!
Thanks for reading and commenting, Bruce. One often hears people criticizing the Bible for getting the science wrong, as if what we know today is the final word in science. This satire is saying that far in the future, people will look back at us with the same attitude that some folks today think about the “bronze age shepherds” of the Biblical era. So the conversation takes place thousands of years in the future and is basically science fiction. Being a wise guy, I started out making it sound like it was a present day discussion about “ancient people”, but soon making it clear that it isnt. The “age of devices” is now, and presumably in the future we wont need any of them. Rogerton and those laws are all fiction from my imagination. Blessings to you.
Excellent! I feel better already! And please note that I did say that there was a good probability that all of my mental cylinders weren’t necessarily firing! Blessings!
Love this. That is a very accurate description of what that conversation will be like.
Proofs of the existence of God exists and are discovered by scientists constantly. The proof forced me to abandon my agnosticism. Trouble is, what you believe will affect your perception of what is in front of your very eyes, and even what information you will pay attention to. Nobody has an unbiased mind (paraphrase of Henry Grew), so I always look for contradictions in my beliefs in my constant search for the truth.