To a Scientist

Andrea Tsurumi

Dear Folks,

For years I have been writing a book to be called (almost finished) "The Patriarchal Nightmare: The Maternal Principle in Nature, Culture and Persons." There was an article by this scientist Saturday in The New York Times. Here is my answer now added to my book.  - John G

A Sour Note from One Scientist.

The following article appeared in The New York Times by Alan Lightman, a physicist who teaches humanities at M.I.T. (Lightman, 2014k, p. 17). The article is entitled “Our Lonely Home in Nature.”

Like so many of his cohorts, he does not believe that “Nature is purposeful. Nature simply is…..There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.”

He writes this because he considers mother nature’s many calamities, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, “happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.”