[HN Gopher] William Cowper and the Age of the Earth [pdf] (2019)
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       William Cowper and the Age of the Earth [pdf] (2019)
        
       Author : hwayne
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-10-02 20:50 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | theodorejb wrote:
       | Why did people assume that strata were deposited over eons and
       | represent different ages? Many of these layers can be viewed in
       | the Grand Canyon, and there is a notable lack of erosion between
       | them. As I see it, these paraconformities are a strong evidence
       | that there were not large gaps of time between the strata - they
       | must have been laid down rapidly over a relatively short period
       | (e.g. by a great flood).
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | You could start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy
         | and go from there.
         | 
         | For the upper bound:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson#Measur...
        
       | PeterWhittaker wrote:
       | As much as I like poetry, why do we attribute to a poet that
       | which we owe to a most observant and introspective canal digger
       | who felt free to question dogma and received wisdom?
       | 
       | William Smith deserves so much of our respect. Cf, e.g.,
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Map_that_Changed_the_Wor...,
       | which summarizes the most excellent book.
        
       | alamortsubite wrote:
       | Slightly OT, but Cowper street in Palo Alto is named after
       | William Cowper. So a fun shibboleth (and as OP points out) is
       | that the name is pronounced KOO-per.
        
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