Re: The wrong horse in evolution education

In a message dated 4/14/2006 1:15:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pruest@mysunrise.ch writes:
I am sorry I failed to explain this expression.
Hi Peter,

I guess my question wasn't so much about the meaning of the expression as it
was to know why this is a problem. Both in Reasons To Believe's model and in
Dick Fischer's model, for example, humanity began long before this
archeological big bang occurred. I suppose that in both models the explanation for the
later big bang is simply that humanity happened to discover new tool
technologies at that later time, long after humanity first arrived on the scene.
Similarly, we have just recently discovered digital technologies and this is
producing a digital big bang at the present. As another example, the time from the
scientific revolution (say from the time of Copernicus/Galileo) until now is
really a blink of an eye in geological time, and so we can see it as another
archeological big bang that has occurred in recent times. So I don't see this as
a problem, whatever model a person has. Do you see this differently?

Phil Metzger
Received on Fri Apr 14 17:14:28 2006