They parade their cruelty openly, calling it diplomacy, calling it expediency, as governments always have. - Sheri S. Tepper

We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.

"Well, why didn't the silly Bloomians think of that?"
"Religion, I imagine, friend Chance. Religion serves to prevent thought in many cases, and I'd say it had done so here. They started with the presumption that anything as complex as the mill must exist for a good reason. Then they spent all their time inventing a good reason—and some god to be responsible for it—rather than looking for a sensible solution to their problem."

Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.