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Experts Aren't Deities

Tacitus X Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 10:02 AM

You like sarcasm: Here's some: no doubt it's far more plausible that an infinite supernatural being created a different fig wasp out of nothing for every variety of fig. Funny how that darn fossil record goes from simple life forms to more complex over time. The world holds it collective breath for you to present evidence of "The Flintstones" 800 million years ago.

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Experts Aren't Deities

Let's look at experts. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a mathematician and scientist. Newton has to be the greatest and most influential scientist who has ever lived. He laid the foundation for classical mechanics, and his genius transformed our understanding of science, particularly in the areas of physics, mathematics and astronomy. What's not widely known is that Newton spent most of his waking hours on alchemy; his experiments included trying to turn lead into gold. Though he wrote volumes on alchemy, after his death Britain's Royal Society deemed that they were "not fit to be printed."

Lord William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907)...

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