XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   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)   
      
   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.   
      
   So he, 'made up a number'!   
      
   Then when he published his book, (origin of species 1859) he wrote the   
   age of the earth to be   
   306,662,400 years old.   
      
   The equiptment he needed to determine the age of the earth wasn't   
   invented untill 1905 using radioactive decay.   
      
      
   So, he made up any number to fit the facts of his book. He lied. But how   
   come nobody out there sez he lied????   
      
      
   What else did Charles Darwin make up? the WHOLE book Origin of the   
   Species????   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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