re: #47 freetoken

“56 years”. Well, if you think that is long, think about this: it’s been almost 200 years since geologists figured out that sedimentary rocks were laid down layer by layer over long spans of time, and roughly 40% of the American population believe it happened in a matter of days because of some global flood 4000 years ago.

56 years is nothing.

Well typo aside, I really did mean 46 years, I suppose that is a matter of perspective.

46 years was about the time it took to go from rudimentary atomic theory to relativity, quantum theory, nuclear physics and an atomic bomb.

It is about the time it took to go from discovering DNA to a human genome.

It is about the time it took to go from the first clumsy chemical rockets launched by Goddard to a moonshot.

It is about the time it took for human activity to threaten the entire global ecology.