Author: Ian Taylor INTRODUCTION The idea of progress – the belief that mankind has advanced in the past, is now advancing, and will inevitably advance in the foreseeable future – is a peculiarly Western faith with a short history...
Read Time: 9 minutes and 50 seconds.Historically, the Western mind has, until the beginning of the nineteenth century, considered the Earth to be only a few thousand years old. This was based upon the Biblical account and the ensuing genealogies...
Author: Ian Taylor The Source of C-14 The earth's atmosphere is bombarded with cosmic rays thought to originate from our sun. The earth's magnetic field serves to protect us from most of these cosmic rays. When the nucleus of a nitrogen atom...
