Re: age of the Earth

On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 7:47:13 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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The Starmaker wrote:

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The Starmaker wrote:

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At Charles Darwin's time the age of the Earth was thought to be about
75,000 years old.  (you won't believe how someone else came up with

that

number)
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He was in a rush to publish his book and noticed the numbers were
wrong...
...he knew
eventually somebody would have
figured out you cannot change a fish to a man in 75,000 years.
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So he, 'made up a number'!
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Then when he published his book, (origin of species 1859) he wrote the
age of the earth to be
306,662,400 years old.
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The equiptment he needed to determine the age of the earth wasn't
invented untill 1905 using radioactive decay.
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So, he made up any number to fit the facts of his book. He lied. But

how

come nobody out there sez he lied????
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What else did Charles Darwin make up? the WHOLE book Origin of the
Species????

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"Charles Darwin Theory determines what he observes."
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Hell, Newton came out with the age of the earth at 50,000..
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who knows how he came out with that number?

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See his
"Scala graduum Caloris. Calorum Descriptiones & signa.",
published anonymously.

Huh? That means Newton did not claim it so it was by some impostor
trying to demean Newton. Suspicious.

The problem with it is that the Earth doesn't cool like a cup of tea.
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How about that number 75,000????
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In 1779 the Comte du Buffon tried to obtain a value for the age of Earth
using an experiment: he created a small globe that resembled Earth in
 composition and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to
estimate that Earth was about 75,000 years old.

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Same errors as Newton.

Faux Newton, very Einsteinian!

Before the development of thermodynamics
things like temperature, energy content,
and the various heat conduction processes were poorly understood.
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The age of the earth is the exact number of the age of the
universe....eventually it will catch up with it.

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The correct answer to the cooling problem
was obtained by Kelvin about a hundred years later.
It is some tens of millions of years.
Kelvin established a sharp conflict between the physical timescale
and the needs of geologists for much longer times.
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Finally, in 1904, Rutherford got it right
by also taking radioactive heat into account,
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Jan

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