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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: maceng2 who wrote (24555)	7/24/2006 10:27:11 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 28931

it's amazing how much a wrong theory can be held on to, if a scientist decides to dig his hills in on a specific dogma (theory). One of the more interesting scientists was Lord Kelvin. He made important studies on electricity and thermodynamics. He made a study of the temperature of the earth and based on sunlight and radiation (the same kind of calculations that are done for global warming now) he was able to determine how long it took for the earth to cool from a molten blob to the form we find today. The age of the earth from his calculation was no more than 100 million years. This didn't seem to be enough time to fit the new theory of natural selection by Darwin. Both Charles Darwin and Lord Kelvin insisted that there must be something wrong in the other's theory, but neither could identify an error. With the discovery of radiation, and the studies of the energy potential of uranium ores by Marie Curie it became clear that the temperature of the earth did not rely solely on sunlight, and therefore the earth could remain full of lava much longer than Lord Kelvin surmised. Lord Kelvin did dig in his hills, but that did not stop the scientific community from making great discoveries in the ensuing years. TP

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