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To: js1138

So, Darwin estimated the age of earth at a couple hundred million years.

You reckon we should keep using that number?


1,224 posted on 12/20/2005 3:32:13 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins
You reckon we should keep using that number?

We should update our beliefs as new evidence is found, like rational people do and creationists don't.

1,232 posted on 12/20/2005 3:36:24 PM PST by ThinkDifferent (I am a leaf on the wind)
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To: xzins
So, Darwin estimated the age of earth at a couple hundred million years. You reckon we should keep using that number?

As the time needed to go from single celled organisms to the current state of things, it's remarkably accurate. It is essentially the period since the early Cambrian.

1,233 posted on 12/20/2005 3:36:51 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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