Tristan
12-31-01, 12:42 PM
Qoute from "The Demon-Haunted World" Carl Sagan
To discover that the universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation of its sweep and grandeur
* "No thinking religious person believes this. Old hat," writes one of the referees if this book. But many "scientific creationists" not only believe it, but are making increasingly aggresive and succesful efforts to have it taught in the schools, museums, zoos, and textbooks. Why? Because adding up the "begats," the ages of patriarchs and others in the bible, gives such a figure, and the bible is "inerrant."
And here is something special for all of those religious people out there who don't believe in science:eek:
"At a dinner table recently, I asked the assembled guests-ranging in age, I guess, from thirties to sixties- how many of them would be alive today if not for antibiotics, cardiac pacemakers, and the rest of the panoply of modern medicane. Only one hand went up. It was not mine." Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World" 1996
To discover that the universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation of its sweep and grandeur
* "No thinking religious person believes this. Old hat," writes one of the referees if this book. But many "scientific creationists" not only believe it, but are making increasingly aggresive and succesful efforts to have it taught in the schools, museums, zoos, and textbooks. Why? Because adding up the "begats," the ages of patriarchs and others in the bible, gives such a figure, and the bible is "inerrant."
And here is something special for all of those religious people out there who don't believe in science:eek:
"At a dinner table recently, I asked the assembled guests-ranging in age, I guess, from thirties to sixties- how many of them would be alive today if not for antibiotics, cardiac pacemakers, and the rest of the panoply of modern medicane. Only one hand went up. It was not mine." Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World" 1996