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Minnemooseus
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Message 1 of 5 (45413)
07-08-2003 2:17 PM


The early geologists such as Adam Sedgwick have become part of the discussion at the "Buz's refutation of all radiometric dating methods" topic (See this link, and also upthread).
I think a collection of links would be a good thing, to help document the beginnings of the end of the "young earth" and "flood geology". Perhaps a "Geology and the Great Flood" topic will spin off of this topic.
Zhimbo contibuted http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6040/flood21.htm at the above cited message/topic.
I'm not contributing any links right now, but I wanted to get this topic started while I was thinking of it.
Cheers,
Moose

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IrishRockhound
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07-08-2003 2:36 PM


Excellent idea... Allow me to get things going.
Biography of James Hutton, the "Father of Modern Geology":
James Hutton - Wikipedia
Charles Lyell, who concieved of the Principle of Uniformitarianism:
Emuseum – Minnesota State University, Mankato
And of course, Alfred Wegener - excellent page:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html
Enjoy.
The Rock Hound

  
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Message 3 of 5 (45420)
07-08-2003 2:52 PM


This is an Irish geologist mentioned recently in "Buz's refutation of all radioactive dating methods" - John Joly, who worked in Trinity College Dublin.
http://www.irishmidlandsancestry.com/...people/joly_john.htm
Here's a nice paragraph from it:
"One of his claims to fame was the making of an accurate estimate of the age of a geological period - an essential step in estimating the age of the Earth. Working in collaboration with Sir Ernest Rutherford in Cambridge, and using the decay in radioactivity in minerals, he estimated, in 1913, that the beginning of the Devonian period - the geological period between the Silurian and Carboniferous - was not less than 400 million years ago, an age which is in line with that accepted to-day. This makes the Earth about 4,500 million years old. A previous Trinity academic - Archbishop James Ussher - using chronological information in the Bible, had estimated the date of creation as 4004 BC!"
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03-18-2004 11:18 PM


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