More than meets the eye

The air is still and visibility reaches to the tall buildings beyond the Ewha University campus in Seoul, Korea. Ewha claims to be the largest women's university in the world and I have no reason to dispute it. I've walked the streets photographing the founders and other important people in its history. The founding woman was a christian, intending to educate Koreans. History shows that christian teachers were to teach heathens the way of the lord. Teaching facts is a wonderful goal in anyone's life. Christianity is a fact in that it existed for two thousand years. Its actual origin is disputed. The wisdom it claims as its own is traceable to more ancient civilizations. Basing papers and ideas on past knowledge is not a crime. But is it defendable when used to create strife and unrest all over the world? Is it progress when cultures of indigenous human beings are destroyed?
Human brains and thought processes must ask "Is it true?" and make their own conclusions.
The earth outside my dormitory window is part of the earth where christ supposedly walked. It is a benign earth moving as we finally learned from scientific understanding by the mathematics, chemistry and physics that are natural laws beyond human control. The earth encompasses habitats populated with plants and animals beyond imagination, at least beyond my comprehension. But they are facts and I can find information on those that are known. Unfortunately not all species are known. Some were extinct before we discovered they had been on earth before us.
The excitement of science will not be stomped out as the attempt to destroy knowledge in the library of Alexandria hoped to achieve thousands of years past. Discoveries we can make with our own human curiosity are forthcoming. Look how far we came since the flat world became round. Imagine how far we can go when we study and search for our real place in the world in which we are privileged to live.
Naomi Sherer