Wolfsbane: Supernatural Suspense with Scary & Horrifying Monsters (Mortlake Series Book 1) by David Longhorn & Scare Street

Author:David Longhorn & Scare Street [Longhorn, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sort2
Publisher: Scare Street
Published: 2021-03-07T22:00:00+00:00

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“Science is about making systematic observations, forming rational hypotheses, testing these new ideas to destruction,” Tara stated firmly. “When a new idea survives, it means we can tentatively frame a better picture of how the universe works. But it’s more fun than it sounds, and we have some great parties in the lab.”

There was a pause around the dining table.

“Well,” Tara said, “that’s my definition of science. It’s about acquiring knowledge. Understanding. You’re talking about technology, Angela. The atom bomb or genetic engineering, those things are the work of engineers applying science. There’s a difference between theory and practice.”

Her dad’s long-term girlfriend, Angela, looked baffled, but then, she usually did. Tara had tried to like her, and she was kind of sweet. But Angela was the sort of person who found long words hard. Plus, she was seven months pregnant, which was all kinds of troublesome.

Then there was Jim, Angela’s brother, who was a pastor. Tara found him irritating, not so much because of his religion but because he always managed to drag God into any conversation. As she had said to her friend Anita, if he sneezed, Jim would look into his handkerchief and see God’s handiwork in the boogers.

“I note,” Jim said, “that you talk about the universe working, like a mechanism which implies a designer. If we see a complex machine, like an automobile, we don’t assume it just sprang into existence. We quite sensibly conclude it was designed.”

“Yeah,” Tara said, “but we already know it was designed and built, by people. The universe may have a designer, and if so, it’s a being who stepped back after setting things in motion and is just watching things play out. Over in Europe, most educated Christians seem happy with that view of God, as far as I can tell.”

She had lost her faith in religion during her teens, after her folks split up. It had not been a reaction against faith so much as an acceptance that prayer didn’t help her, in particular, but talking with her friends did. Friendship, science, and just having fun while she was young seemed to fill her life pretty well.

“Yes,” Jim had said when she’d pointed this out, “you say that now, but what about later? What about when you have children, will you raise them without God?”

Tara always bridled at being told by anyone—especially a man—that she would someday have children. She simply didn’t want to have any and might never change her mind. And she shouldn’t have to tell anyone that it was her right, a right a lot of good people had fought and suffered for. But it was an argument she didn’t want to have on New Year’s Eve.

The Reverend Jim, though, was a tenacious type who had to have the last word.

“But what about evil, Tara? How do you explain evil? Or good, for that matter, if we’re all just the product of random collisions of atoms?”

“You may be the product of random atomic collisions, Jim, but

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