Philosophy
So how would the geological record look like if we assumed that young Earth creationism were true? Just click the picture below to get a better look:
Well, as the picture itself mentions, since Jesus lived in the Pre-Cambrian, he could not have ridden a Velociraptor into Jerusalem, so there goes that...
But it turns out that unicellular life started more than three hundred years after Socrates was executed; St. Thomas Aquinas was writing his Summa Theologica during the early Cambrian; Christopher Columbus made his trip to America during the early Devonian; David Hume drove the church mad in the Triassic (I wonder if he was riding a T-Rex...); Darwin was born during the Jurassic; Nietzsche declared the death of God during the early Cretaceous; Einstein's theory of General Relativity was vindicated before the end of the Mesozoic; and I was born during the Oligocene... yep, makes perfect sense :)
Via: Minerology Database
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Philosophy
A Geological Timescale for Young-Earth Creationists
So how would the geological record look like if we assumed that young Earth creationism were true? Just click the picture below to get a better look:
Well, as the picture itself mentions, since Jesus lived in the Pre-Cambrian, he could not have ridden a Velociraptor into Jerusalem, so there goes that...
But it turns out that unicellular life started more than three hundred years after Socrates was executed; St. Thomas Aquinas was writing his Summa Theologica during the early Cambrian; Christopher Columbus made his trip to America during the early Devonian; David Hume drove the church mad in the Triassic (I wonder if he was riding a T-Rex...); Darwin was born during the Jurassic; Nietzsche declared the death of God during the early Cretaceous; Einstein's theory of General Relativity was vindicated before the end of the Mesozoic; and I was born during the Oligocene... yep, makes perfect sense :)
Via: Minerology Database
- Einstein's Jewish Science: First Review
The first review of Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and religion is up at Publishers Weekly. Prior to WWII, Nazi sympathizers dismissed Einstein?s theory of relativity as ?Jewish science.? Yet Einstein himself, notes...
- "defending Einstein" Is Out!
I know, I know, after your summer beach reading, you're up to here with Hans Reichenbach's early writings on the theory of relativity... but for that hard to buy for philosophy of science geek on your Chirstams list... Hans Reichenbach was one...
- Five Historical Misconceptions Busted
If your knowledge of history comes from movies and popular culture, chances are that your historical understanding is probably more of a misunderstanding. Admit it: you think of Vikings wearing horned helmets, you can't not picture Lady Godiva riding...
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Florence Bascom July 14th, 1862 to June 18th, 1945 Geological Society of America's magazine... Bascom was the first woman hired by the U.S. Geological Survey (1896), the first woman to present a paper before the Geological Society of Washington (1901),...
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[Click to enlarge.] Rudolph F. Zallinger November 12th, 1919 to August 1st, 1995 What is 110' long and resides at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History? Not a dinosaur but close. It is a mural by Rudolph F. Zallinger who completed the "The...