(January 29, 2019 at 8:09 pm)Aegon Wrote: Right now we seem to be living in the Electronic Age.
I don't think so. I would call this age the Oil Age, because everything we have today we have because of oil: all sorts of energy (for travel, mining, growing food...), plastics, chemicals and even electricity (sure some of it comes from other sources but remove oil and with time even those sources will stop). I mean if we stopped using the oil then we would be going to the previous stage which was what? Steam Age? Iron Age? Muscle Age?
I hope next age will be Nuclear Fusion Age, meaning that "we" will not only get electricity from nuclear fusion but also creating materials by heating atoms of one kind until they become atoms of another kind (kind of what stars do today).
But maybe it becomes just Nuclear Fission Age with the development of better and safer nuclear reactors
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
