Time travails

We all know time crawls- especially when you want it to fly. But just how slow is time by our yardstick you will be surprised. Take this whole evolution business for example. It took millions of years for life on earth to evolve. Then how do we expect miracles to happen overnight? Even civilization took thousands of years to reach where we are today. Though I admit, science and technology has made quantum leaps in the last hundred years. Perhaps that's the reason we have begun to expect the impossible. But just think about it. By the earth's standards alone one lifetime is peanuts. Just a few decades. So when people say we landed on the moon in 1969 and space travel hasn't progressed as much as expected i think it is unfair. It could take anything from a hundred to 500 years 'normally'. We just wont be around to cheer for it.

You often read about fossils being discovered. Scientists are quick to put a date on them and hang them on the evolution calender. But have you noticed that the dates are like '50 million years ago' or '5000 years ago'. If the nearest date between fossils is a million years or even a thousand years then aren't we groping in the dark really? How do you fill in such huge blanks of time? Which means in plain terms scientists really have little idea of how old a thing is. The thousand year tags are put to make it sound authentic. What they really mean is that this fossil is old- hello! you and I can say that. We dont need a phD for it, do we?