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Bill, we're looking at an article, The Noble Lie of Poetic Naturalism. By Melissa Cain

Travis, it's in the World View Bulletin. Melissa starts her article with the Terrible

Future depicted in H.G. Wells classic science fiction novella, The Time Machine. Humans

have become helpless childlike persons who are hunted and eaten by the Moorlocks. And

the farther he goes, the worse it gets. He travels to a time when humans in most lifeforms

are extinct. And then the narrator at the end of the story says, only a foolish heaping

that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. Then it remains

for us to live as though it were not so. Bill, that's a pretty good description of the

Noble Lie that the article will further define below.

It sure is, Kevin. And I can say personally that Wells novel, The Time Machine, was one

of the key factors in my life as a non-Christian teenager. I read the book. And when I came to

the end of it, I was absolutely devastated because it ends in lifelessness and destruction.

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