Observational Sciences...

Cartoons don't have to be elaborate or created by Pixar to be funny and engaging... The author of this site has an incredible sense of humor - but it's humor that makes you think. I found this one appropriate and meaningful given the current (continued...) debate of science versus religion.


In 1991 Stephen J. Gould published an article titled "Fall in the House of Ussher" in which he defended Ussher's age of the earth because he didn't believe in "the notion that progress in knowledge arises from victory in battle between science and religion, with religion defined as unthinking allegiance to dogma and obedience to authority, and science as objective searching for truth." The two videos below represent the continued debate between 'science and religion' within the field of geology. Both videos illustrate the dogmatic views held by each side (yes, I agree geologists can also be dogmatic) and neither presentation style is conducive to coming to some means of co-existing without sarcasm or muckraking.