Ben Stein to take on Darwinism on April 18

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Smidlee said:

rocketpig said:

Smidlee said:
People of the future could just as easiler call the 20th century the "Dark ages" as we had two great World Wars. Now we got extremely powerful weapons so who know what this century will bring yet.

Chances are they'll look at the huge advancements made in radio waves, light technology, atomic energy, astronomy, space travel, etc. and realize just how many improvements were made during the past century.

They more likely judge us like we love judging those in our past. Again even the Dark Ages wasn't all that dark, it's the dark side which get our attention.

So in the future if they are anything like us they will focus on the wars just like we do.

 No they will focus on the 20th century as the beginning of a golden age of science, just as we now view the beginning of the Roman Empire and the reign of Augustus as a golden age of culture. In fact perhaps that is a more apt example than I thought. Prior to that period was a century of civil war for the SPQR, yet through that time and for the life of Augustus after it civilization and culture flourished. Now we look back on that time as the golden age of Rome, as some of the defining moments of culture and civilization in the history of mankind. Not as an age of war.

 Your examples are irrelevant and your statements are wrong. The dark ages were dark, man did not progress and in fact lost progress that had been made in the centuries prior. They are nothing like the times we are currently going through which is one of extreme and amazing progress.