Atlantic Trivia: Faith and Science

Today’s questions are about faith, science, and their midpoint: therapy.

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Atlantic Trivia

Doctrine

Astronomy

Psychoanalysis

From a story (opens in new tab) by Luis Parrales

The outdated Catholic doctrine of Extra ecclesiam nulla salus held that outside the Church, there was no way to achieve what desirable religious state? 

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Salus is the operative word.

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And by the way, did you know that solar eclipses exist only because the sun is 400 times wider than the moon, but the moon is 400 times closer to Earth than the sun? This makes them appear the same size.

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However, the moon is very slowly moving away from the Earth; in time, its annual one-and-a-half-inch drift will wreck the ratio that makes eclipses possible. So go see one while you can! You’ve only got 600 million years or so left.

See you tomorrow.

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