I was wondering about this the other day as to what is/was the greatest invention in history, i thought electricity, but someone else mentioned the birth control pill, which is also a good choice.
As for moment in History i would either say Battle of Hastings, Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand( the cause of WWI and therfore the resulting 20th Century) or The advent of the use of fossil fuels, but what do you think? It would be interesting to here some of your views as i am sure i have missed some events.
This seems like a poll, so in an attempt to make it stay here…
Greatest Invention: The microchip
Greatest Moment: The resurrection of Jesus Christ
The control of fire.
The Wheel.
Domestication of animals and plants.
Writing (Alphabet)
Trade / Currency.
As for moments, the meteor event which struck the earth to wipe out dinosaurs to enable man to (eventually) appear. Anthropomorphically speaking, that is.
yea the microchip good choice as for the resurrection of Christ then if its true then undoubtly but we cant actually prove it - im really not trying to put down Christianity, but thanks for replying, keep em comming
Greatest Invention: Darwin’s theory of evolution
Greatest Moment: The Big Bang
Greatest invention: Farming
Moment in History: Marathon, lot of what if’s there.
Before this moseys on over to IMHO, I support the dino extinction as the most important event, but propose written language as the most important invention.
hmm, yes that meteorite would be bigger than the battle of Marathon.
I’ll go along with that one
Don’t think there would be any writing if people had remained small bands of nomads. So sedentary life, caused by farming, was a prerequisite for writing, I think
Just because something pre-dates another thing, this does not automatically imply the earlier event was in any way of greater status or importance.
Thatching was invented prior to electricity, but is not necessarily the greater invention, in the effect it had on human society in general.
Is it possible to keep this in GD, do you think?
Another one for the written language.
Greatest moment, mankind landing on the moon. (alot of great moments, and I had to pick this one, shrug)
It’s not the predating that is important.
But the fact that without it the other one would not have been invented.
As Mel Brooks said (as the 2001 year-old man):
Liquid Prell
Families are happy again! Mothers and daughters are talking!
Honestly, the battle of Hastings in only of some importance in the history of England. From a less narrow point of view , it’s a very minor incident. It was of no consequence for the rest of the world, and probably doesn’t even rank amongst the 10 000 more important events in history.
What is liquid Prell???
How come I missed out on the greatest invention of all times?
I’ll go along with Farming. It’s the singlest most important invention or discovery.
Greatest moment? So many to choose… 12 october 1492. The discovery of the new world by Admiral Colon
Greatest invention: Slood
Greatest moment: when the earth was created… 10,000 years ago… by GOD! 
Hmm. IANA Buddhist but I would have to say that the greatest moment in history is when the Buddha discovered and expounded the Four Noble Truths. Why? Because it offered a comprehensive path for humans to achieve happiness through their own individual effort without either social or super-natural intervention.
As for the greatest invention: writing ,without which civilization is probably impossible.
Greatest invention - the miniskirt
Greatest moment - whoever had the great idea of hiding Jesus’ body (
Lib)
Seriously, for a debate, we’ll need some definitions as to “invention” and “moment”.
For example, were Galileo, Kepler, Newton’s theories “discoveries” or “inventions.” And does the time at which those “inventions” occurred qualify as the greatest “moment”?
I also think it might be of value to distinguish between greatest moments in the history of mankind, as opposed to history of the universe. Otherwise, the big bang is pretty much sine qua non.
I propose defining “invention” as a discrete phenomena, attributable to an individual or small group (e.g. development of the steam engine), rather than a gross incremental cultural development (e.g. agriculture, the industrial revolution, etc).
Feel free to debate (or ignore) my proposed definitions.
Actually I change my vote to farming. The posters who say that without farming writing wouldn’t exist are probably right. Of course the question is heavily biased towards the very basic inventions since all future inventions are contingent on them.
Perhaps a more interesting question is the most important invention of the last 2000 years once we get those very basic inventions out of the way.
Here is fascinating collection of answers to that question from different intellectuals:
http://www.edge.org/documents/Invention.html
My answer would probably be one of the obvious choices like the printing press.