In celebration of rapidly approaching Christmas. I believe this was originally presented by Frank Kelly, who played Father Jack in the Irish television series Father Ted.
I sometimes reflect on the fact that to a child there is much more evidence for the existence of Santa Claus (photo attached) than for the existence of God (no photo available). Consider the similarities. The child is told by the main authority figures in his or her life, parents, grandparents and extended family that…
It was 1953 and we had all just started in Grade 4 at St Laurence’s College. Such a change from the nuns at a Catholic convent school.
Our new teacher was Brother Cusack (for some reason, the Irish Christian Brothers were referred to by their family name, rather than the more historical given name). It didn’t really matter, as we were instructed to refer to them as “Sir” in both the first person (Excuse me, Sir) and the third person (Sir said…).
Clearly, we as humans are on an exponential curve of discovery.
This is reflected in statements like “95% of everything we know has been discovered in the past 10 years”.
And we no longer believe, as the Victorians did at the turn of the (19th) century that “everything of significance has already been discovered”. Or, as Thomas Watson, the first president of IBM famously predicted “that there might someday be a world wide market for as many as 5 computers”.
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