RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 1:40 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2010 at 1:41 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(October 13, 2010 at 1:18 am)Statler Waldorf Wrote: How old you think the Earth is.about 4.54 Billion Years old
(October 13, 2010 at 1:18 am)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Why you think this.Radiometric Dating, the age of the sun, the age of the moon, the oldest life forms and genetic structures on the planet, etc.
(October 13, 2010 at 1:18 am)Statler Waldorf Wrote: What presuppositions you had before examining the evidence and making your conclusions.My presupposition was that the Earth was much older than I was, but until I became interested in science I didn't give it much thought.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
