XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   The Starmaker wrote:   
   >   
   > 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????   
      
      
   "Charles Darwin Theory determines what he observes."   
      
      
      
   --   
   The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,   
   to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,   
   and challenge the unchallengeable.   
      
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