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A Lihu Can See the Storm, but His Distance Means It's a Mystery

Aliho wants to investigate god's works in nature, but he can only see nature from a distance. Proximity is our advantage when it comes to the natural order. We can get close to the storms. Alihu has none of these advantages. And yet the distance doesn't stop a lihu from investigating god's work in nature. A lihu delivers a proto scientific description of the formation of rain. This is an ancient dude figuring out how evaporation works. He doesnt understand evaporation like we do, but he's pressing into a natural phenomenon he sees with the scientific curiosity that will eventually lead to the discovery of evaporation.

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