Posted on 12/22/2009 6:30:54 PM PST by JoeProBono
LONDON, A London scientist has authored a paper arguing angels as classically depicted, mostly-human forms with wings, would be unable to fly.
Professor Roger Wotton of University College London wrote in his paper, which was published by the school's Opticon magazine, that human-appearing angels with feathered bird-like wings would not be able to use the wings for flight, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.
"Even a cursory examination of the evidence in representational arts shows that angels and cherubs cannot take off and cannot use powered flight," Wotton wrote. "And even if they used gliding flight, they would need to be exposed to very high wind velocities at take off -- such high winds that they would be blown away and have no need for wings."
Wotton's paper also took aim at fantasy depictions of fairies with the wings of butterflies.
"The distortion of the thorax needed for flight in fairies with butterfly wings would be exceedingly uncomfortable," the paper read. "For sure, fairies don't fly."
Of course the fact that they’re angels has no bearing on his calculations...
Tell him Earl.
What if Angels are full of helium? Did he analyze an actual Angel?
Wow, who is this mean-spirited and stupid Grinch? Has he not heard of the spiritual and the miraculous? What utter stupidity and ignorance this person exhibits.
Leave it to the Brits....(Twits)
never mind the fact that you can’t have BOTH arms AND wings.
Mr. Wotten obviously doesn’t know God very well. If he did, he certainly wouldn’t be questioning the flight capabilities of Angels.
Idiot. Materialist. Concrete thinker only.
Angels are pure spirit. The wings in art are representative of a spirit’s ability to be operative as they will.
He is conflating angels and angels as.... classically depicted.
He extrapolates from angels as classically depicted being unable to fly to cherubs and angels being unable to fly.
A rather big leap that he makes there.
I doubt that angels really care what Professor Wotton publishes about them.
The only thing worse would be if someone proved that some of the martial arts that Jet Li does -- the stuff where he flies from rooftop to rooftop, kicking people as he goes -- is somehow faked. It would kill me to find out that some scientist didn't buy it.
Scientists said the same of the Wright Brothers last century.
According to science it’s also quite impossible for bumblebees to fly.
According to me helicopters can’t fly.
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