How come in the 60s evolutionists said the universe was only millions of years old now its billions? from millions to billions thats quite a mathmatical error wouldnt you say? Oh yeah they use to say we were in a global cooling crisis too now its global warming! When we know already the the earth goes in cycles every ten to twenty years from a cooling stage and then to a warming stage.
> How come in the 60s evolutionists said the universe was
> only millions of years old now its billions?
Your "points" would be better made if they weren't obviously ridiculous.
1644: Hebrew scholar Dr. John Lightfoot (1602-1675), Vice-Chancellor of the Cambridge University constructed a chronology of history from Biblical genealogies. He calculated that the world was created at the equinox in September of 3298 B.C., at the third hour of the day (9 A.M.). He didn't specify the particular earth longitude for which this time applied.
1650: James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, painstakingly correlated Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories and Holy writ, arriving at the date of creation: Sunday 23 October 4004 B.C. No error bars are needed when this date is plotted on the graph, for Ussher considered it exact to the day.
For several centuries thereafter one sees little scientific discussion of the age of the universe, partly because of lack of evidence and theory. But people were pondering the question of the age of the earth, and of course, the universe is very likely older than the earth.
1760: Buffon (1707-88) estimated the earth's age to be 75,000 years by calculating its time of cooling from the molten state.
1831: Charles Lyell (1797-1875) arrived at an age of 240 million years based on fossils of marine mollusks.
1897: William Thomson (1824-1907) used improved knowledge of heat conduction and radiation to improve the calculation of the earth's cooling rate, concluding the earth was between 20 and 400 million years old.
1901: John Joly (1857-1933) calculated the rate of delivery of salt from rivers to oceans, determining the earth's age to be 90 to 100 million years.
1905-1907: Rutherford and Boltwood determined the age of rocks and minerals from measurements of radioactive decay. They found ages of 500 million years to 1.64 billion years. Subsequent work found rock samples as old as 4.3 billion years.
In the 20th century attention turns from dating the earth, to dating the formation of the solar system, and the universe itself.
1929: Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) interprets the redward shift of distant stars and galaxies as due to the general expansion of the universe. The rate of this expansion is called the Hubble constant, and if the universe were expanding uniformly since its beginning, would tell us how old the universe is. Extrapolating backward would bring the galaxies together about 2 billion years ago, using Hubble's original figures.
1947: George Gamow (1904-68) uses Hubble's original data on luminosity of Cepheid variables to conclude that the universe's "expansion must have started about two or three billion years ago." In a footnote he says "More recent information leads, however to an estimate of somewhat longer time periods."
1952: Bart Jan Bok (1906-83) estimates that galactic clusters must be between 1 and 10 billion years old.
1999: Astronomers working on a special NASA team announced that the universe is about 12 billion years old, based on measurements of the Hubble constant for very distant stars.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cutting/ageuniv.htm
Science, btw, thrives on being "wrong" and continuously refining its estimates.
Myth, otoh, doesn't take correction so well.