Don't be too hard on them...one has to take into account the history and background upon which the natural sciences were founded.
This is the bedrock. The names are familiar. Murcheson, Buckland, Agassiz, Sedgewick, Lyall...what was it Velikovsky said; they speak from the era of the horse and buggy and oil lamps?
http://www.grisda.org/origins/09028.htm
Thanks Fred. Keep 'em coming. I may as well move my computinmachine into the kitchen; like in front of the fridge, so's I won't have to get up and leave to eat. On second thought...........