The fourth and final part of Professor Brian Cox’s Wonders Of The Universe covered the role that light has played, and continues to play in the evolution of the Universe as well as our understanding of it.
By examining the properties of the light reaching the Earth from the most distant galaxies, we can determine the age of the Universe and track its history from the Big Bang, right up to today.
All the scientific evidence shows us that the beginning of every thing was around 13.7 billion years. 13.7 Billion, not Million, Billion years ago. That is a mind blowing figure, a figure that puts our three score and ten lifetime into true perspective.
Even the widely accepted time that man came into existence, 2.4 million years ago, is belittled by such timescales.
I find these figures fascinating, and it lends a certain credence to my Buddhist belief, that we are born, live, and die, again and again through reincarnation. Whilst I respect everyone’s right to their own beliefs, I find some faiths more credible than others.
One branch of faith, which is growing in strength and following, is Creationism or Intelligent Design. Although they purport to be different, they appear to try to overturn the science of evolution from opposite ends of the same argument. The theory that all the creatures on Earth, including man, were created or designed by God flies in the face of accepted and verifiable proof of the process of evolution.
Harping back to my post about youth, and that our youths are our future, I feel strongly that they should be given all the ‘facts’ to allow them to make up their own minds. Hence the growing pressure to abandon the teaching of Darwinism in US schools is a blinkered and foolish path to tread.
If the protagonists of this determination are so confident of their beliefs, why do they ban the teaching of alternative views. I hope that they will open their eyes, and their minds and see that ‘channelling’ their children down this blinkered route, can only end in tears once the betrayal becomes clear.
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