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:Hey Grinder, here are some pics: [http://images.google.com/images?q=rainbows%20are%20circular&hl=en&sa=N&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wi Circular Rainbows] [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 15:50, 13 March 2007 (EDT)

:Hey Grinder, here are some pics: [http://images.google.com/images?q=rainbows%20are%20circular&hl=en&sa=N&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wi Circular Rainbows] [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 15:50, 13 March 2007 (EDT)

:: "it has difficulty explaining why they seem beautiful and evoke such feelings of awe and mystery." ... has science ever tried to explain this? It comes off like a cheap dig.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 12:08, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

:: "it has difficulty explaining why they seem beautiful and evoke such feelings of awe and mystery." ... has science ever tried to explain this? It comes off like a cheap dig.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 12:08, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

::: How would you like to phrase it? I was trying for some compromise between various possibilities. I didn't like statement in the original article that "although modern science has attempted to explain rainbows as reflection of light off of water in the air, they have never been able to explain why they appear AFTER a storm ... or why you can never find the end of the rainbow." Modern science explains all that quite well. I didn't just want to blow it away, so I was going to say something along the lines of science not being able to explain why rainbows are beautiful and awe-inspiring. I couldn't quite bring myself to write "cannot explain" because a supporter of evolution might be able to devise an explanation of why there is adaptive value in the perception of beauty in rainbows.

::: How would you like to phrase it? I was trying for some compromise between various possibilities that occurred to me. I didn't want to say that science cannot explain the appearance of rainbows, because it can. But I didn't want to give the impression that science ''explains away'' rainbows. But it is possible that an evolutionist ''could'' hypothesis some adaptive advantage to perceiving beauty, so...

::: Ah, got it. ''Physics'' cannot explain...

::: Ah, got it. ''Physics'' cannot explain...  

::: If we just want to say rainbows '''are''' beautiful and awe-inspiring that's also fine, and if anyone want to slap a <nowiki>{{fact}}</nowiki> tag on it there shouldn't be much of a problem finding a source citation... like... hmmmm.... yeah, of course: Wordsworth, "My heart leaps up when I behold/A rainbow in the sky:/So was it when my life began;/So is it now I am a man;/So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!" I'll try making that change and see what people think. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 15:01, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

::: If we just want to say rainbows '''are''' beautiful and awe-inspiring that's also fine, and if anyone want to slap a <nowiki>{{fact}}</nowiki> tag on it there shouldn't be much of a problem finding a source citation... like... hmmmm.... yeah, of course: Wordsworth, "My heart leaps up when I behold/A rainbow in the sky:/So was it when my life began;/So is it now I am a man;/So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!" I'll try making that change and see what people think. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 15:01, 15 March 2007 (EDT)