In the Church - a chapter from the Life in the Barracks

The asteroid Vesta once had a molten core: praise of science!

  In this article we learn that information from a meteorite found on Earth may give us clues about a long-ago state of the second most massive asteroid of our Solar system. Here is my reaction to the news.

Amazing wealth of information from a microscopic piece of rock that came from a big chunk of rock that came from a huge pile of "burning gas" that came from a gigantic blast of a "fidgety" point of nothingness:

The Big Bang.

OK, this last point challenges our commonsensical world view beyond the limits of most of us...

But isn't systematic observation, imaginative interpretation, critical conclusion, and brave theory formation just awe-inspiring?

Boy, don't you just love science!

- And yes, I purposfully didn't write in the title: ... praise The Science :) -