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Show lem. • tists could read the evidence, but could not f u l l y i n t e r p r et iust as h i s t o r i a n s can r e c o r d f a c t s or l i n g u i s t s transr?-"1 hieroglyphics yet not always e x t r a c t accurate meanings from th« I wanted to share with my f a t h e r the r e a l i z a t i o n that science and r e l i g i o n are not mutually - e x c l u s i v e , wanted to propose that they may, in f a c t , be m u t u a l l y - s u p p o r t i v e . I wanted to show him t h a t the p o s s i b i l i t y l i e s within the power of words and t h e i r a b i l i t y to circumscribe time, to lend intelligence to r e a s o n , a n d l i g h t to imagination. The answer to the c o n t r a d i c t i o n between Eden and e v o l u t i o n was merely a matter of t r a n s l a t i o n , I wanted tc say. If an e n t i r e body - a city, no l e s s - can be t r a n s l a t e d across space and time to the solar system of the North S t a r , then c e r t a i n l y time and thought are t r a n s l a t e a b l e from one e a r t h l y sphere to another- But I c o u l d n ' t confide my s o l u t i o n s to problems he had never f e l t the *need t o consider- Sc I wrote on the book-flap, "Some t r a c e p h y s i c a l p a t h s ; some t r a c e s p i r i t u a l paths; some trace both. Thank you, Dn aAdAd.Ty , ffoorr sshnoowwiinngg, me t h a t old and new Testaments are one." I closed the book, wondering if I would ever give i t to him, or if i t would s i t beside the gloves I had^ought him for Christmas, g a t h e r i n g dust in a drawer. Jus e +* t the family was holding a small my mother telephoned to say t h a t the ian y T had c o n f l i c t i n g plans, informal b i r t h d a y p a r t y t h a t evening. -P „ niose friend. I told her - the baby shower of a ci , , , , ^ - d * t r i e d to resolve When t h e e v l i n g snow became a b l i z z a , ^ e+ f lV here with me, where you 11 my c o n f l i c t . "Bag them both, ^tay n« ^ ^^ be safe. Then you won't f e e l g u i l y the o t h e r ." |