THIS IS AN EXCELLENT POINT. My dad and I were discussing this point of yours, and he suggested that perhaps he limits himself to asking questions because he wants his readers to search for the answers themselves? I don't know if I'm fully satisfied with this answer--on the one hand, he is most definitely writing for young adults (e.g. bothering to explain Zeno's paradoxes/introduce the concept of Zeno's paradoxes at all), and so he wants to encourage them to think about these questions because that's not something widely encouraged IN TODAY'S SOCIETY, as they say, but he doesn't want to force them to an answer. And in Hazel's case I could feel him wanting to give Hazel the right not to come to any answers that involve belief.
(because let's be honest the search for answers he's avoiding is the search for God come on people.) (the question is, why is he afraid to approach the God conclusion?) (another question: is this characteristic of his less frustrating to non-theists? if non-theists is too broad, non-religious, then?)
But on the other hand, it is all about questions and people meandering to half-answers that sort of fit what's going on and he doesn't make any progress and that is frustrating.
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:13 am (UTC)(because let's be honest the search for answers he's avoiding is the search for God come on people.) (the question is, why is he afraid to approach the God conclusion?) (another question: is this characteristic of his less frustrating to non-theists? if non-theists is too broad, non-religious, then?)
But on the other hand, it is all about questions and people meandering to half-answers that sort of fit what's going on and he doesn't make any progress and that is frustrating.