The First Dream I Had Months Ago and It Stays with Me, I Know There Is a Meaning but I'M Not Getting It.
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- Date Submitted: 03/23/2011 02:58 PM
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Do i believe science has been effective in helping to unlock and preserve the past? Yes i do! I strongly believe we need to unlock, we need to preserve that which went before.
With fundamental questions such as where? What? When? How? Why?, science can start to unravel that burning, inquisitive desire to know. This applies to both unlocking and preserving the past.
Definitions of the key words are as follows;
EFFECTIVE - ADEQUATE TO ACCOMPLISH A PURPOSE; PRODUCING THE INTENDED OR EXPECTED RESULT
UNLOCKING - TO LAY OPEN; DISCLOSE
PRESERVE - TO KEEP ALIVE OR IN EXISTENCE; MAKE LASTING
An example of how effective science has been in unlocking the past is that of Otzi the Ice Man. He was discovered in 1991 by a German couple walking in the high Alps between Austria and Italy. After the initial media and governmental ‘hoo ha’ the science community were allowed to take a look at him. Through the different branches of science the fundamental questions in which i wrote about above can and have been answered;
Radiocarbon dating has otzi at about 5 300yrs old. Living in the Neolithic age about 3 300-3 200BC.
Botanists believe he came from the valleys of Italy. This was based on the charcoal remains in a wooden container found with him
A Palaeoanatomist found bones scraps lying beside him and identified them as ibex bone, and based on the remains of sloeberries also found with him, concluded he died between late summer and early autumn.
Scholars have been provided with a very clear window into a prehistoric age. Prior to Otzi no one knew how late Stone Age people looked and dressed, how they made and used their tools or how effective the tools were. These questions have answers.
Another key part of my assessment is the extent at which science has helped in preserving the past.
There has been a lot of debating about whether to preserve, restore or allow nature to do what has probably been done for millennia and that is to let the monuments return to the...
With fundamental questions such as where? What? When? How? Why?, science can start to unravel that burning, inquisitive desire to know. This applies to both unlocking and preserving the past.
Definitions of the key words are as follows;
EFFECTIVE - ADEQUATE TO ACCOMPLISH A PURPOSE; PRODUCING THE INTENDED OR EXPECTED RESULT
UNLOCKING - TO LAY OPEN; DISCLOSE
PRESERVE - TO KEEP ALIVE OR IN EXISTENCE; MAKE LASTING
An example of how effective science has been in unlocking the past is that of Otzi the Ice Man. He was discovered in 1991 by a German couple walking in the high Alps between Austria and Italy. After the initial media and governmental ‘hoo ha’ the science community were allowed to take a look at him. Through the different branches of science the fundamental questions in which i wrote about above can and have been answered;
Radiocarbon dating has otzi at about 5 300yrs old. Living in the Neolithic age about 3 300-3 200BC.
Botanists believe he came from the valleys of Italy. This was based on the charcoal remains in a wooden container found with him
A Palaeoanatomist found bones scraps lying beside him and identified them as ibex bone, and based on the remains of sloeberries also found with him, concluded he died between late summer and early autumn.
Scholars have been provided with a very clear window into a prehistoric age. Prior to Otzi no one knew how late Stone Age people looked and dressed, how they made and used their tools or how effective the tools were. These questions have answers.
Another key part of my assessment is the extent at which science has helped in preserving the past.
There has been a lot of debating about whether to preserve, restore or allow nature to do what has probably been done for millennia and that is to let the monuments return to the...