We live not a hundred million but four thousand five hundred million years since the Earth was spun from dust and rock around the sun. The evidence comes not from our own planet, but from its satellite. The Moon flew off its parent after a giant impact. Because it stayed small, cold and undisturbed it gives a better picture of the past than its parent. A quick trip by the Apollo XI mission was enough to date it. The Earth’s turmoil makes it harder to trace its own origin. Its oldest rocks, found in Greenland and Western Australia, are just under four billion years old.
Steve Jones, “Darwin’s Ghost,” page 195.
>>Steve Jones, “Darwin’s Ghost,” page 195.<<
Interesting, but the fact the author uses “Darwin” in the title means nothing. TToE focuses exclusively on the nature of changes in living things over time.
If someone chooses to bring abiogenesis into it, that is well and good but does not apply to the OP.