So Many Questions

This reading presented an overwhelming amount of information. It was difficult to pay attention to all the details, but I made it through. I found it interesting how humans have found different ways to worsen the condition of their own world.

But then I started to think again: Is all of this real? Actually, my first question was how do we know that the earth was formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago? How accurate is this big bang theory and what facts do we have to support it? Squarzoni mentions all these boldly-stated facts, such as “the changes in earth’s orbit around the sun every 100,000 years” and “these cycles are characterized by a succession of cold periods, called glacial periods, which last up to 100,000 years,” but how do we know that? There were no humans and no records to show from that time, if it even existed. And yeah I know, half lives and blah blah blah but even the use of scientific methods, such as radioactive dating, isn’t substantial enough for me.

How do we measure the earth’s temperature? Why do we continue to allow fossil fuel industries to disrupt natural earth patterns and destroy the atmosphere? How do we know that plate tectonics have severely altered the appearance of the continents? How did scientists formulate the idea of the supercontinent Pangaea?

Science regarding the past is more theoretical than factual. We can’t use these “past events” as baseline information if there’s a great chance that it’s inaccurate or nonexistent information.

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