To witness the precision of astronomical predictions is a fascinating experience. Once when astronomers predicted a total eclipse of the sun, we scheduled a vacation, packed our bags, and drove two thousand miles to better view it. There was no visible evidence in the sky to verify its approach but never did we doubt its occurrence at the appointed time. Astronomy had foretold it, and we believed.
The eclipse took place on a cloudless June morning. Elaborate equipment had been set up to record the cycle of this eerie event. The spoken countdown began, "ten, nine, eight," until "zero" announced the first bite of darkness from the fiery rim of the sun. Suddenly I remembered a sentence from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, "If this Science has been thoroughly learned and properly digested, we can know the truth more accurately than the astronomer can read the stars or calculate an eclipse." Science and Health, pp. 84-85;
This Science, entirely different from the astronomical science that had just been vindicated, is the Science of Christ, or Christian Science. A question presented itself: how could the predictions of Christian Science be even more certain and accurate than the display of precision we had just witnessed?
