It's Stanley Cup Finals time, and so I expect we are all asking ourselves the same question: How would you explain ice hockey to Bronze Age nomads from Canaan? Of course there will be a matter of translation. Words like "stick" and "net" presumably would map pretty directly. There'd probably be a word that shares meaning with "team" although maybe it would refer primarily to animals. "Offsides" is tricky to explain even to modern English speakers, but that's because there are a lot of details; the constituent concepts … [Read more...] about Science Corner: “What Hath Darwin to Do with Scripture?”