THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES.
HOW OLD IS THE EARTH? Huxley once remarked that the zoologist must take his time from the geological clock, The Victorian geologist deoided that the earth could not be older than 100,000,000 years. Es» timates based on the time it must have taken for the ocean to became as salty as it is gave a similar Tesult. Lord Kelvin considered the rate of the earths cooling and likewise arrived at the cabalistic 100,000,000. Later he accepted a reduction to forty and even twenty million years on the basis ot tidal studies made bv Professor Carl Barus. 'The evolutionists were humiliated and outraged. "Too little,” they cried. "We need hundreds of millions.” The adamant Kelvin refused to give them even a century more.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1931, Page 4
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126THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1931, Page 4
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