Paleontology

Introduction H. G. Wells has long been considered the father of the science fiction genre with the publication of his first book, The Time Machine in 1895. This novel details a narrator’s travel through time. The unidentified narrator tells of his voyages through time to house guests of various professional backgrounds except one of religious background. To explain, there is not a minister or priest situated among the house guest. This essay will address the absence of religion in the novel…

Martinsville, Virginia. Their mission is to interpret Virginia’s natural heritage in ways that are relevant to all citizens of the Commonwealth. They possess a mass array of collections and exhibits. The museum focuses on subjects pertaining to Paleontology, Archaeology, Mammalogy, and Geology. The museum primarily focuses their educational standpoint on Virginia and the Southeastern United States. However, the museum also has collections and research programs that span the world.2…

In this essay, I will be evaluating an argument from both moral skepticism and ethical objectivism. For clarification purposes, I will define some of the terms which I will be using throughout this essay. The following definitions in this paragraph are taken from the third edition of Shafer-Landau’s ‘The Fundamental of Ethics’ (2015). Ethical objectivism is the view that there exists at least one objective moral standard, and that some moral claims are objectively true. In contrast, moral…

rabbits in the pre-Cambrian.” So far that has not happened, and in fact the positive evidence for the “theory” of evolution is extensive, made up of hundreds of thousands of mutually corroborating observations. These come from areas such as geology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, ethnology, biogeography, embryology, and molecular genetics. Like evolution, most accepted scientific theories have withstood the test of time and falsifiability to…