世紀神秘光影秀—本世紀時間最長的日全食今天登場，雖然台灣只能看到最多百分之八十六點八的日偏食，但是，透過網路及電視直播，民眾依然可以飽覽大陸、印度日全食的壯麗奇景。專家建議，除了抬頭看太陽變化，也可低頭體會周邊環境變化。

這場世紀天文大戲歷時超過兩小時，中央氣象局估算，台北今天早上八點廿三分，太陽會從上方偏左處開始出現缺角，慢慢往下擴展，九點四十分缺角最大（稱為「食甚」）。

之後，缺角會從下方偏左處慢慢消失，十一時五分太陽回復原狀。台灣其他地區的日偏食過程差不多，只是時間有一點差距、太陽被遮住的面積不同。

在台灣，太陽被「吃掉」的面積（食分）最大出現在馬祖，有百分之八十六點八，苗栗以北可觀察到八成以上的食分。墾丁食分最小，只有百分之六十八點六。

包括台北市立天文館在內的許多國內外網站都有日全食直播；公共電視與ＴＶＢＳ今天早上現場直播日全食畫面。台大天文所教授孫維新建議，如果想舒適地同時看到日偏食和日全食，可以到兼具室內和室外兩種活動空間的環境：室內有電視或網路看日全食直播，室外可觀察日偏食。

孫維新說，日偏食的太陽變化不會太快，偶爾出外用日食眼鏡看一下就可以，每次不要超過十秒，千萬不可用眼直視。

中央大學天文所教授陳文屏指出，除了抬頭看太陽的光影轉換，也要體驗周遭環境變化。日全食發生時，溫度變低，造成空氣流動，天色灰暗，會有「陰風陣陣」的詭異感覺。

「觀察動物的反應也很有趣」，陳文屏說，原本「倦鳥」才會歸巢，但起床不久的鳥兒突然發現天色變暗，也會匆忙趕回家；貓狗也可能有異常舉動。

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The Bible uses eleven chapters to talk about what happened from the beginning of the universe to the dawn of human civilization. These chapters make up 1 percent of Bible. This small portion should not be a clear explanation of how everything began. It suggests that perhaps God doesn’t want to make a clear explanation of these things in the Bible. The scientific explanations of the history of the universe and life on earth are expected to be discovered by people with our talents endowed by God.

People who keep saying that Christianity is unscientific always use the first 1 percent of the Bible to support this idea. This 1 percent of the Bible really looks mythological. However, they should feel tired of doing so after a certain point. Although the other 99 percent has many miraculous events, too, these events were supposed to happen in solid historical settings, and no scientific law can give a proof showing that they couldn’t happen.

The viewpoint here is called theistic evolution, proposed by some Christians. This book takes such an approach on this issue because personally I accept it. Besides, this viewpoint fits the big picture of this book.