AGE OF THE EARTH.
There appears to be no prospect of finality in scientific ideas of the age of our earth. Ussher’s chronology, by which the Creation was fixed' at 5926 years ago, Sir Hussey Vivian startled the House of Commons by asserting that lie could prove the Welsh language was in use a thousand years before Adam’s day. Since then there has been friendly rivalry between astronomers and geologists in trying to solve the problem, the latter getting far ahead of the former. Lord Kelvin’s reckoning far eclipsed all previous ones, but in a recent address at the Geological Society, Professor Eddington said, that “Lord Kelvin’s estimate need not now be taken more seriously than Archbishop Ussher’s.” Using the rate at which the earth’s rotation is slowing down, he showed that it has taken more than 10,000 million years since the duration of the day was between three and four hours, and the moon was born!
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2562, 3 April 1923, Page 4
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157AGE OF THE EARTH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2562, 3 April 1923, Page 4
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