A recent column by Jon Carroll at the San Francisco Chronicle has set off a flurry of archeological digs and discoveries.
“Not only is Mr. Carroll correct about intelligent design being essentially the same as creationism,” Gunter Shoveller, a professor of archeology from the Munich Beerhall University, told The Skwib. “He’s also right in stating that scientists have been around for at least 4,000 years. Look, I have proof.”
Shoveller produced an electron microscope that has been carbon-dated to 2100 BCE. It was found next to some cuneiform tablets excavated recently in eastern Turkey.
“Wow, is my face ever red,” Heston Beefmanger, director of the science history department of Bambridge University. “We always thought that modern science — you know, a body of empirically verifiable information discussed amongst a global network of scholars using a set of techniques for investigating the universe known as the scientific method — actually began with Copernicus, in 1543, when his De Revolutionibus was printed. But look at how wrong we were.”
Beefmanger showed The Skwib a device.
“Look at this ancient Egyptian centrifuge. Originally, we thought it was used to removed the liquified brains out of skulls. Clearly, we were wrong,” he smiled sheepishly. “But that IS science for you isn’t it? We’re always correcting ourselves, unlike politicians and the media.”
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“Scientists have been studying the origin and nature of life on earth for at least 4,000 years.” Article here.