Slate: The End of Mystery – The encroachment of science on fantasy’s last redoubts. Charles Paul Freund takes the occasion of the Church’s revealing the Third Mystery of Fatima to say that science is taking all the mystery out of life:

Comes science with its DNA and its bioarchaeology,

its mummy CAT scans, its satellite imaging, its sonar, its

computer analysis, and soon lost cities are found, dead

royalty turns out really to be dead, pretenders to be but

pretenders. The past must then reveal itself in fantasy’s

ashes.

But I say pity anyone whose mystery is so petty that it can be cast aside by the results of DNA analysis and the the like! There’s still plenty to truly, unassailably enchant us.