A Welcoming Engagement

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If you are not aware of the BIG HISTORY PROJECT, please go to the following links to learn more about it.

https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home

https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive 

New York Times article on project’s formulation

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It is time for all beings to catch up with the levels of knowledge, alleged justified true belief, and the like, to know what really matters.  Perhaps Big History will help us get there, because, if we are to learn anything from history, we do not want to lapse into another Dark Age in our history.  

Big History is an emerging academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. It examines long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach based on combining numerous disciplines from science and the humanities, and explores human existence in the context of this bigger picture. It integrates studies of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity using empirical evidence to explore cause-and-effect relations, and is taught at universities and secondary schools often using web-based interactive presentations. It is a movement co-founded by Bill Gates, former executive of Microsoft and David Christian, historian at of Australia’s Macquarie University.  An “unusual coalition of scholars have gathered to bring viability to this emerging discipline that is making its way into institutions of higher learning and other institutions of learning..  The distractors, even among some historians, have expressed skepticism towards “scientific history” and argue that the claims of Big History are unoriginal.  Nonetheless, critical thinking is a guide to understanding where we are with our knowledge and belief systems.  Question everything, please.

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