Posted on 02/12/2003 5:32:05 AM PST by Valin
Imagine the blue marble of Earth turning white, as the glaciers advance, sea levels drop, harbors turn to meadows, and "snouts of ice" a third of a mile high bulldoze the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
Scientists have been saying for some time that Earth is doomed, that the dying sun will balloon out and embrace the planet in the ultimate global warming -- but the incineration is at least 7 billion years away, and first, it's going to get very, very cold.
At least two scientists have concluded that the Earth is already on the downward slope, its biological heyday millions of years in the past. In their just-published book, "The Life and Death of Planet Earth," astrophysicist Don Brownlee and paleontologist Peter Ward, both of the University of Washington, lay out a grim, deliberately provocative scenario.....
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All this nonesense about billions of years and star life cycles and evolution and every manner of irresponsible clap-trap thrust forward as "truth" with nary a proof.
When I was in grade school, we learned the basic scientific principle that assertions in science, called hypotheses and theories, were testable, and that if they agreed with tests, they were considered reliable descriptions of the chaos of nature. If they could not be tested, they were not really valid science.
Most of modern science, including Geology, Physics, Biology, and Astronomy, is little more than a gussied up naturalisitic non-deistic religion masquerading as science.
There is no possibility at all of ever testing if birds came from dinosaurs, humans from apes, or if stars last billions of years and ballon out or turn into black holes or any of the rest of this crap.
They tell us the earth is billions of years old based on radioactive isotope dating of rocks. Yet they fail to mention that this relies on the naturalistic assumption that the various isotopes they are measuring in these tests must be assumed to have all been one isotope of one element at the "beginning". The thought that maybe both elemental isotopes were always present never seems to cross their mind, mostly because this might tend to disprove preconceived notions they hold so dear of how old the Earth or Moon or whatever "should be". The fact that the assumption is totally unprovable should give one pause in accepting it as true.
When I interview students for college, I advise those interested in pursuing a career in hard science to pick chemistry. It is the least ideologial and most pracitical and rewarding branch, IMHO.
Written human records go back no further than 5,000 to 10,000 years. Everything else must be taken on faith based assumptions coming out of steady-state theories and the like.
That being the case, it is no more unreasonable scientifically to assume that your favorite religious books depiction of pre-history is true than it is to abide the assumptions of the naturalisitic scientists trying to convince us we are just a bunch of electrons descended from a monkey.
However, unfortunately, radical environmentalists will use this--and anything else--as an excuse for the state to seize private property in the interest of "protecting the environment".
HAMLET
Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' the earth?
HORATIO
E'en so.
HAMLET
And smelt so? pah!
Puts down the skull
HORATIO
E'en so, my lord.
HAMLET
To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
HORATIO
'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
HAMLET
No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
Wrong Answer! What we need to do is get off this rock, terraforming other worlds and prolonging earth-life by spreading it around the galaxy. It is far more important that we prevent radical environmentalists from hampering our exploration of space, the type of radicals who are trying to get the moon declared offlimits to human activity despite the fact that is a lifeless dust ball.
Keep repeating your lies.
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