Baron Cuvier, William Smith: Pillars of Stratigraphy
Abstract
Baron Cuvier realized before Queen Victoria came to the throne of England that extinction is the fate of us all. Cuvier was born in 1769 and lived his younger life before the French revolution when opportunities for young talented people not of the aristocratic class were limited. As a consequence, after completing his studies, he had to take a lowly post as a tutor in Normandy. But the French Revolution created new opportunities and Cuvier took charge of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Continuing his studies there he successively became a professor of natural history and then of anatomy. The famous mosasaurus found in 1770, which created the original scientific interest in fossils, was identified by Cuvier as an extinct marine lizard. Who Lies Sleeping? The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man by Dr Michael D Magee
Scientists want to find the truth and learn it. Religious people already know the truth and want others to learn it. Scientists alter their beliefs to conform to the facts. Religious people alter the facts to conform to their beliefs.
Abstract
Baron Cuvier realized before Queen Victoria came to the throne of England that extinction is the fate of us all. Cuvier was born in 1769 and lived his younger life before the French revolution when opportunities for young talented people not of the aristocratic class were limited. As a consequence, after completing his studies, he had to take a lowly post as a tutor in Normandy. But the French Revolution created new opportunities and Cuvier took charge of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Continuing his studies there he successively became a professor of natural history and then of anatomy. The famous mosasaurus found in 1770, which created the original scientific interest in fossils, was identified by Cuvier as an extinct marine lizard. Who Lies Sleeping? The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man by Dr Michael D Magee
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One Sunday morning, a Christian father, anxious to test his son’s upbringing, gave his boy a dime and a penny, and said, “You may put whichever of the two coins you choose into the collection plate.” After the service, he could not control his curiosity as to the result for long and called the boy to him. To his regret and disappointment, the boy admitted that he had put the penny in the collection and kept the dime. “But why?” asked tbe father, thinking of the high principles he had tried to instil into his son. “Because”, the boy replied, “the minister says ‘the Lord loveth the cheerful giver’.”
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Tenets at the heart of religion can be tested scientifically. This in itself makes some religious bureaucrats and believers wary of science. Is the Eucharist, as the Church teaches, in fact and not just as productive metaphor, the flesh of Jesus Christ, or is it, chemically, microscopically and in other ways, just a wafer handed to you by a priest?
