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Farm Boy Asks Who Furnishes the Clouds?

The smart new science professor at the college scarcely bothered to conceal the fact that he was an agnostic, if not an atheist. “Unless you shake off old-fashioned views and act for yourself,” he kept telling his classes, “the world will leave you behind. Putting your faith in God may be all right, but you can’t stop there. Take rain-making. When the farmers prayed for rain, what did they get? The Dust Bowl. Now all they do is to send up a plane, drop some chemicals on a cloud, and it rains. No question about that, is there?” To the professor’s surprise, a drawling farm boy spoke up. “Sure, there’s a question. Who furnishes the cloud?” (Encyclopedia of 15,000 Illustrations - 13834).