'Has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty'...?
Ben Macintyre is fed up with ugly science running its warty pustulent fingers all over nice friendly ancient mysteries. 'The myth of Stonehenge,' he explains, 'may be more powerful even than science.' It is possible that the true nature of Stonehenge may elude excavations, but that does not excuse a lot of Romantic gibberish about the death of the imagination. It is a feeble imagination in the first place that cannot accommodate scientific enquiry.
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Idiocy of the first water from Macintyre. A mystery is only a mystery if people want to know the answer to it. To say 'I would prefer it to remain a mystery' is an oxymoron. If you're more interested in what a seventeenth century architect thought about a group of well known stones than you are in the lives and beliefs of people living 4,500 years ago then you are probably ill qualified to talk about imagination.
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