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Am Sonntag000020, 20.04.2025 um 08:59 schrieb The Starmaker:
> 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????
> 

Darwin's book is among the worst crap ever written in science.

Darwin actually wanted to write a novel about his travels around the 
globe and a fable about the magnificence of the British aristocracy (the 
'preferred race').

What Darwin actually invented, that was 'scientific' racism and one of 
the forerunners of Naziism, called 'Eugenics'.

TH

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age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-19 23:59 -0700
  Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-20 00:12 -0700
    Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-22 06:45 -0700
      Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-04-22 22:14 +0000
      Re: age of the Earth nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-04-23 09:47 +0200
        Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-04-23 11:56 +0000
      Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-24 00:44 -0700
        Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-24 22:35 -0700
        Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-24 23:02 -0700
          Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-30 20:40 -0700
            Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-30 20:47 -0700
              Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-05-01 06:34 +0000
                Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-05-02 08:58 -0700
                Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-05-04 02:29 +0000
  Re: age of the Earth nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-04-20 14:53 +0200
    Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-04-20 13:45 +0000
      Re: age of the Earth Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-04-20 13:53 -0500
        Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-04-21 00:43 +0000
      Re: age of the Earth nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-04-20 22:10 +0200
        Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-04-20 23:06 +0000
          Re: age of the Earth nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-04-21 11:43 +0200
            Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-04-21 10:27 +0000
              Re: age of the Earth nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-04-21 13:06 +0200
                Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-04-21 14:24 +0000
            Re: age of the Earth Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-04-21 12:50 -0500
              Re: age of the Earth nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-04-22 11:03 +0200
                Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (bertitaylor) - 2025-04-22 10:36 +0000
      Re: age of the Earth nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-04-20 22:10 +0200
        Re: age of the Earth Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-04-20 20:44 -0500
          Re: age of the Earth nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-04-21 11:43 +0200
            Re: age of the Earth Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-04-21 13:49 -0500
    Re: age of the Earth The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-04-20 11:27 -0700
  Re: age of the Earth Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-04-21 12:35 +0200
    Re: age of the Earth bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-05-01 06:36 +0000

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