Reply #112: The poem is about the mystery of time.

[hunter]

Science doesn't have a firm grip on what time *is* so you cannot say that "science does not support those beliefs." Science has nothing to say about those beliefs. In science "time" is no more and no less than a specific way of manipulating certain symbols that have a descriptive value to us. But for all we know the universe is flat and static. Past, present, and future may be a book already written, and in that case time does not exist as we presume to know it.

Time is probably built into our minds in such a way that we think we "know" what it is. Obviously this mental tool has been of some evolutionary value to our species, but to another sort of being, be it a god, a fungus, or something else, time might have a very different appearance.

There are many areas in which science directly conflicts with certain people's beliefs. The belief that the Biblical flood Noah survived covered the entire earth, killed off the dinosaurs, and created almost all of earths's geology is in clear conflict with the scientific evidence. The notion that some sort of human spirit might exisit beyond our very limited perceptions of time and space is not so farfetched.