While sitting with my children at breakfast one morning, my then six-year-old son noticed how the sun came into the same window, behind his head, every morning. He began to speak of how the sun goes around the world every day. I corrected him, reminding him that it is the earth going around the sun instead. I began to think of all the years that man would have naturally thought that the sun was the object moving, before scientific discoveries proved otherwise, for that is surely what it looks like from here! What a revelation it would have been to learn, for the first time, the truth about the movements of our solar system-- something that works in a way totally different from what appears.

I had warned him! I had told my friend that I had never played golf before, but he insisted that I join him for a round of 18 holes at a local high-class golf course. By the second hole, and after the numerous groups we had let bypass us, he knew he had made a mistake! I should have had some training on a driving range before attempting an 18 hole course.