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When A Person's Religious Beliefs Cause Him To Deny The Evidence Of Science, Or For Whom Public Policy Morphs Into A Battle With The Devil, Shouldn't That Be A Subject For Discussion And Debate?

We Live At A Very Special Time . . . The Only Time When We Can Observationally Verify That We Live At A Very Special Time!

The One Experience That I Hope Every Student Has At Some Point In Their Lives Is To Have Some Belief You Profoundly, Deeply Hold, Proved To Be Wrong Because That Is The Most Eye-opening Experience You Can Have, And As A Scientist, To Me, Is The Most Exciting Experience I Can Ever Have.

Now, Almost One Hundred Years Later, It Is Difficult To Fully Appreciate How Much Our Picture Of The Universe Has Changed In The Span Of A Single Human Lifetime. As Far As The Scientific Community In 1917 Was Concerned, The Universe Was Static And Eternal, And Consisted Of A One Single Galaxy, Our Milky Way, Surrounded By Vast, Infinite, Dark, And Empty Space. This Is, After All, What You Would Guess By Looking Up At The Night Sky With Your Eyes, Or With A Small Telescope, And At The Time There Was Little Reason To Suspect Otherwise.

In 5 Billion Years, The Expansion Of The Universe Will Have Progressed To The Point Where All Other Galaxies Will Have Receded Beyond Detection. Indeed, They Will Be Receding Faster Than The Speed Of Light, So Detection Will Be Impossible. Future Civilizations Will Discover Science And All Its Laws, And Never Know About Other Galaxies Or The Cosmic Background Radiation. They Will Inevitably Come To The Wrong Conclusion About The Universe......we Live In A Special Time, The Only Time, Where We Can Observationally Verify That We Live In A Special Time.