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Talk:Great Achievements by Teenagers (view source)
Revision as of 20:32, February 7, 2011
, 20:32, February 7, 2011→Roger Mason entry: Answering Aschlafly's questions
::::Perhaps the better comparison would be with Kathryn Aurora Gray. --[[User:CecilQ|CecilQ]] 21:29, 6 February 2011 (EST)
::::Perhaps the better comparison would be with Kathryn Aurora Gray. --[[User:CecilQ|CecilQ]] 21:29, 6 February 2011 (EST)
Aschlafly, you're missing the point: Mason's breakthrough was that '''''as a schoolboy''''' he recognised fossils in what he knew were pre-Cambrian rocks. The very strong consensus among professional / academic geologists at the time was that there were '''no''' complex life-forms in the pre-Cambrian - and hence no complex fossils in pre-Cambrian rocks. Mason, as a teenager, was not hide-bound by the preconceptions of the academic world. This exactly fits your own criterion of "the natural open-mindedness of young people before they may experience attempts to indoctrinate them towards certain worldviews".
As for the the scale of his achievement, there are 11 recognized geological eras and Mason discovered the first fossils recognized to definitely come from one of them ''and knew exactly what he had done'' (i.e. unlike the shephard discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls, who had no idea what the pieces of parchment were). That's a pretty big deal
Another good reference is this radio programme (''In Our Time'', a weekly science-for-non-scientists programme on a talk radio channel over here): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lh2s3.
Martyp, young earth creationism may be a big deal for some people round here but evidently not everybody: I've read enough CP to know that.
I'll give it an hour or so to let others respond further, then make the appropriate edit to the page. [[User:BenjyB|BenjyB]] 15:32, 7 February 2011 (EST)
== ''Teen''agers ==
== ''Teen''agers ==