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Re: age of the Earth

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On 4/20/25 8:45 AM, Bertitaylor wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:53:58 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> 
>>
>>>
>>> Then when he published his book, (origin of species 1859) he wrote the
>>> age of the earth to be
>>> 306,662,400 years old.
>>
>> You are quote-mining.
>>
>> In reality Darwin wrote:      (second edition)
>> ===
>> Hence,
> 
> Huh?
> 
> under ordinary circumstances, I should infer that for a cliff 500
>> feet in height, a denudation of one inch per century for the whole
>> length would be a sufficient allowance.
> 
> 500*12*100 is 600000 years.
> 
> 
> 
> At this rate, on the above data,
>> the denudation of the Weald must have required 306,662,400 years;
> 
> Whatever the Weald is, *hence* its height gotta be
> 
> 306662400/100 inches or 3066624 inches or 3066624/12 feet or 255552 feet
> or about 8 times the height of Mount Everest was the height of the
> Weald, whatever that may have been.
> 
> Somebody smelling a really stinking rat or is our canine arithmetic
> woefully wrong somewhere?
> 


Good catch Hindu. Makes one think the thing was Physfit's dick, pointing 
up.

The foot and hand and leg and dick they use to measure length must be 
the culprit.

One day, Modern Human scientists will take their "Weald" and shove it up 
their cro-magnon asses to stay together intact for the eternity that's 
coming.

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