Our local library is selling off kids books that are considered out of date. Cl1.1 chose a book about space, costing 20p. Being about space, it has of course got a diagram of the solar system, along with a description of all NINE planets. Because for a while it was absolutely indisputable truth that our solar system has 9 planets. That truth has passed, now that Pluto that's always been there since before humankind was even conceived, is no longer a planet. A book about space would also be incomplete without a description of black holes. The stuff it says was absolutely 100% true, and even used in serious science. True that is, until prof Steve Hawkins demonstrated mathematically that the truth was false and there was a new truth. It just amuses me how even the most intelligent folk cling to the concept of truth even though truth has consistently shown itself to be a fickle, fleeting concept.
I think I might have that book too. Is it the one where that lad reckons he knows another lad that can walk on water?
I've got a book which say that one is male and the other one is female,but the truth is that they are the other way around, so you can't believe every thing, i'm only 6
Evolution of mankind continuously proves scientists theories to be wrong,ancient history is mostly made up with little to no proof,anyone thinking outside what is considered to be "normal" are laughed at and dismissed. So I guess it could be argued that most non fiction books in libraries are infact fiction .
Topic for today:- Statements from history, are they true and do they mean anything? Discuss. "History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today." (Chicago Tribune, 1916).
