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Originally Posted by pj67coll
. I've just read a book called "The man who found time" about James Hutton and the Scottish enlightenment. Hutton being the founder of modern Geology thru the realization of the age of the earth.
- Peter.
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That's a great book. There's a little garden in Edinburgh at the site of Hutton's house. You can sit there and get a view of the Salisbury Crags and Arthur's seat which must have inspired Hutton to think about the age of the Earth.
I took students to that very site after a geology professor friend of mine and I got very pissed when we learned the bookstore at Grand Canyon National Park was selling a Christian fundamentalist book which explained how the canyon was formed in 6000 years.
Little did I realize that the same intellectually degrading nonsense had wormed it's way into the very universities I was teaching my students were the epitome of critical reason.