From: magentashadow@webtv.net   
      
   NAME: The Great God Science   
       
   SYMBOLS: Light Bulb, Beaker filled with some mysterious liquid,   
   Microscope, Gears meshing, Test Tubes, E = MC², the Atom, which is   
   shown as a larger circle around a smaller circle "orbiting" about it, a   
   model completely out of date as a map of the atom, that still remains   
   popular, showing that even those who follow the Lord of all that is   
   Bright, New & Shiny can't let some things go.     
      
   USUAL IMAGE: If not ineffable at least darn hard to pin down, best guess   
   probably a lot like ether Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein   
   Or Doc Savage   
      
   HOLY BOOKS: Too many to name, two of the biggies however are Newton's   
   Principia Mathematica & Darwin's The Origin of Species by Means of   
   Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle   
   for Life.   
       
   HOLY DAYS: A short selection   
   Jan. 7 - Old Rocks Day   
   Jan. 8 - Galileo Day & Stephen Hawking Day Feb 12 - Char les Darwin Day   
   Feb 17 - Giordano Bruno Remembrance Day & National Public Science Day   
   Feb 19 - Nicolaus Copernicus Day   
   March 14 - Albert Einstein Day   
   March 31 - Bunsen Burner   
   April 3 - Scientifiction Day (First magazine devoted exclusively to   
   science fiction, Amazing Stories, premiers in 1926) April 24 - Universe   
   Day (Hubble Telescope comes on line 1990) April 26 - Richter Scale Day   
   May 18 - Bertrand Russell Day   
   May   27 - Rachel Carson Day (Silent Spring) June 12 - Machine Day   
   June 30 - Meteor Day   
   July 16 Atomic Day   
   July 20 - Moon Landing Day   
   Aug. 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Day Sept. 8 - Feast of the First   
   Stardate   
   Oct. 28 - Chemistry day   
   Nov. 9 - Carl Sagan Day   
   Dec, 25 - Isaac Newton Day   
      
   RELATIVES: Necessity (mother, under his birth name Invention), & ether   
   Imagination, Desperation, or Wonder (father) though there are other   
   contenders.   
       
   SYNODEITIES: Hephaestus (Greek), Sarasvati (Hindu), Pranidhanavasita   
   (Buddhism) Goddess of Control of Abstract Contemplation, Mahakala   
   (Tibetan Buddhist) God of Tents & Science - not to be confused with the   
   Hindu god of the same name also known as The Great Death -   
      
   DETAILS: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878) France's most famous physiologist   
   said that "Art is I, science is we." The Great God Science is the I of   
   science. There are religions whose gods are part of pantheisms, and gods   
   that have monotheistic institutions.   
      
   The Great God Science is rare in that he the godhead, not of a   
   monotheism, but of a no monotheism. Declaring there are no gods and he   
   is the only one.   
      
   If not a jealous god he is at least a stuck-up one. Cold eyed and yet   
   passionate & powerful, it was the Great God Science who laid the   
   railroad tracks across the world, that in America the Indian's called   
   the Iron Snake, built for his `perhaps´ mother, Manifest Destiny, they   
   ended up serving his needs of conquest, industry and information.   
      
   It was as the 20th century was born that the G. G. S. truly came into   
   his own and started to reformulate the world into his well measured,   
   calibrated and cataloged image.   
      
   As he grew in the last century, so too did his avatars manifest,   
   multiply and spread.   
      
   At first showing up as nameless, or at least forgettable everymen in the   
   works of H. G. Wells & Jules Verne he later gained many other names and   
   images for himself from the mythalized shadows of real people to   
   avataric "fictional" manifestations such as Charles Darwin, Sherlock   
   Holmes, Thomas Edison, Tom Swift, Tom Swift Jr, Crag Kennedy, Doctor   
   Thorndike, Adam Link, Doc Savage, Albert Einstein, Captain Future,   
   Steven Hawking, Dr. Who, Mr. Spock, Carl Sagan, Dexter, Bill Nye the   
   Science Guy, Data, Jimmy Neutron and many, many other thousands of   
   heroes and advocates of the G. G. S. who appeared in his personal sacred   
   texts that, while called science fiction, was in fact one of the purest   
   founts of his true worship.   
      
   The Great God Science transformed the 20th century with his webs of   
   communication from the telegraph to the radio to the Web while at the   
   same time his bolts of power changed war, art, medicine & all aspects of   
   life.   
      
   If of old such small things as warm west winds or bread ovens can be   
   granted gods or goddesses how then can the force that reshaped a world   
   in less than 100 years be left out?   
      
   After all he has his priests & priestesses known to most others as   
   nerds, his fundamentalists known more widely as debunkers & even   
   heretics such as the Creationists who don't even know they're worshiping   
   another god altogether from the one they think they are. Such is the   
   power of the Great God Science!   
      
   For images, links & other things go to   
      
   The GGS:   
      
   http://community-2.webtv.net/TheObsidianMask/GGS/   
      
   Or find him at   
      
   The God/dess Of The Month Club:   
      
   http://community-2.webtv.net/magentashadow/GOMC/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)