...of recent geological history three hundred millions of years will not suffice ! We say — so much the worse for geology as at present understood by...opinion at his hands. His argument aimed at disproving Playfair's assertion, that neither the heavenly bodies nor the earth offered any evidence of a beginning,...

...of recent geological history three hundred millions of years will not suffice ! We say — so much the worse for geology as at present understood by...opinion at his hands. His argument aimed at disproving Playfair's assertion, that neither the heavenly bodies nor the earth offered any evidence of a beginning,...

...of recent geological history three hundred millions of years will not suffice ! We say — so much the worse for geology as at present understood by...opinion at his hands. His argument aimed at disproving Playfair's assertion, that neither the heavenly bodies nor the earth offered any evidence of a beginning,...

...portion of recent geologieal history three hundred millions of years will not suffice! We a y—so much the worse for geology as at present understood by...William Thomson is not so sweeping in his assertion: bnt then the nature of the problem before him did not require any such opinion at his hands. His argument...

...of recent geological history three hundred millions of years will not suffice ! We say — so much the worse for geology as at present understood by...considerations render it impossible that more than teu or fifteen millions of years can be granted.' Sir William Thomson is not so sweeping in his assertion...

...will presently see, physical considerations from various independent points of view render it utterly impossible that more than ten or fifteen millions of« years can be granted. You see, then, that the argument from the internal heat of the earth depends upon working the problem...

...hundred millions of years will not suffice ! 1 Origin of Species (1859), p. 287. We say — So much the worse for geology as at present understood by its chief authorities, for, as you will presently see, physical considerations from various independent points of view render it...

...reported to have said in a late lecture at Glasgow, in alluding to differences on this subject, " So much the worse for geology as at present understood by...considerations render it impossible that more than 10,000,000 or 15,000,000 of years can be granted." Before entering on physical details it will be as...

...hundreds of millions for the existence of life on this earth, most unceremoniously, declaring that physical considerations render it impossible that more than ten or fifteen millions can be granted ! About ten millions of years ago, it is contended by this new school of calculators,...

...hundreds of millions for the existence of life on this earth, most unceremoniously, declaring that physical considerations render it impossible that more than ten or fifteen millions can be granted! About ten millions of years ago, it is contended by this new school of calculators,...