Invoking The Voyagers Against Id |
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Cornell President Rawlings Condemns Intelligent Design
Drawing from sources ranging from Cornell's founders to Voyager space missions, Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III condemned the push to teach intelligent design in public schools Friday. The attack came during the president's State of... http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/...4/435c7762cf891 "The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress." - Bertrand Russell -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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QUOTE If we consider that Earth still has one billion years to live before burning with the sun heating, that makes room for twenty such attempts. Up to us to be the first to success. The estimate I recall is that we have 5 billion years until the Sun goes red giant on us. |
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QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Nov 12 2005, 06:28 PM) Yes but Earth regulates its temperature with natural greenhouse effect. But when greenhouse gasses will be at a concentration near zero, this mechanism will be unable to work, allowing the temperature to rise, eventually at a level incompatible with life. When? I heard once this figure of one billion years. |
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