The need to move forward

I have to rant about this idea that people of Congress are perpetuationg, the earth is only roughly 6 - 10,000 years old.  Once again I rely on my love of History and Science to help the hopeless in understanding how the movers and the shakers have trimmed the conceptual horizon into something more understandable and feasible. (yeah that sounded pretentious, but what the hell it's my blog if you don't like it then bugger off)

Let's take for instance Galileo Galilee, The man who was placed under house arrest for his beliefs and use of the telescope to prove that we are not truly alone when it comes to our little neighborhood in the solar system. Or Rene' DesCartes use of algebra to create a movement of rationalism and coining the phrase, "I think therefore I am" allowing for the realisation that man has within him the potential for understanding his universe,  These and countless other, DaVinci, Michaelangelo, et al. helped to move us from the dark ages into the renaissance and in turn allowed for personal assesment away from dictative dogma set by the growing influence of the church and state. 

The Scientific Revolution allowed us to set aside the outdated traditional thinking and move to a more rational approach to science, medicine, mathematics, language and the arts.  To step up and say in one sweeping assesment that all these years of discovery are simply the by-product of some huge conspiracy to keep the true knowlegde of the Earth's creation is not only foolish but downright ignorant.  As I was raised ignorance is no excuse. 

The hard and fast of it is that science has proven that all things are made of atoms and those atoms make up ccertain molecules into different tissues, organ, and systems or depending on the the molecules different inorganic substances.  All of these molecules have a certain lifetime in which they breakdown, we call this a Half-Life.  We can tell how old something is by reading the carbon atoms and where they are in their life cycle through a technique called Radio-Carbon Dating, say that with me.  Fossils are not placed their by people over the the past thousands of years they are the remnants of living tissue petrified in some manner.

The truth of the matter is this I may be full of shit, science changes everyday just as the church changes it's rules and regs over the years.  There really are no true solid facts in the world, save for a few.  But in the end lets not use religious banter to direct legislation, we have moved beyond that as a society.  Lets look to the best solutions for all involved.

Always remember Ben Franklin's quote, "Beer is proof that God loves us."

GordyC