Sentences with phrase «geological age of the earth»

The authors of Genesis «knew all about evolution and the geological age of the earth» but chose not to mention it.

I finally settled on the evidence and disgarded the scepticism on both Evolution (helped by accepting the Geological Age of the Earth) and Global Warming, and I recall that I decided it was the choice of language to lay out their case that helped confirm who to trust and who to ignore.

Not exact matches

And this is what he does here, very well, proceeding by discrete steps: the observable plasticity of plant and animal species, the verifiability of macro-evolution, the geological record of the earth's age, the fossil evidence (including the wealth of fossil remains of intermediate special forms), observable and experimental mutation, morphology, genetics, and so forth.

But the really strange thing about this is that the views of these two Drs Snelling, on matters such as the age of the earth and its geological strata, are diametrically opposed.

However, all this, as we know, has had to be reconsidered by Christians, Mother Church included, once the geological and palaeontological sciences began to reveal the apparently immense age of the earth and the evidence that the biological species did not all come into existence at once exactly as they are today but by some kind of transformism.

But when the immense age of the earth became clearly evident on geological grounds, most fundamentalists tried to defend the «truth» of the biblical story by interpreting the six days as six geological ages, thousands or even millions of years in length.

Through learning to read traces of the cataclysmic and remorseless geological changes that formed the planet, they uncovered a story that enabled them to compute the ages of the Earth, the solar system, our galaxy and the universe.

Revkin is among those credited with developing the idea that humans, through growing impacts on Earth's climate and other critical systems, had created a «geological age of our own making,» known increasingly as the Anthropocene.

We are witnessing a time when the human impact on the earth system is growing exponentially, spawning the proposed naming of a new geological era, where the earth system is under the influence of the human race: the Anthropocene, of «the Age of Man» (and Woman).

G. Brent Dalrymple's classic debunking of the young - earth «scientific» creationism's dating methods with a short explanation of how geologists know the age Accelerating the development and application of integrated methodologies for the quantification of geological time for the underpinning of Earth scieearth «scientific» creationism's dating methods with a short explanation of how geologists know the age Accelerating the development and application of integrated methodologies for the quantification of geological time for the underpinning of Earth scieEarth sciences.

An introduction to Deep Time, the Geological Timescale and dating the Earth's past Stone Age man ate mushrooms as part of their diet, a study on ancient tooth plaque has revealed.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Curated by Tessa Giblin, this show takes a long, dispassionate look at our Anthropocene age, an era in which the effects of man's activity on earth are as pervasive and devastating as the geological events of prehistoric eras.

An international group of scientists has proposed the date of the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history — the Age of the Anthropoceage in Earth history — the Age of the AnthropoceAge of the Anthropocene.

As regular readers know, scientists are in a bit of a tussle over what date marks the dawn of Earth's «age of us» — a.k.a. the Anthropocene — even as other scientists and scholars question whether it's hubris to think a geological epoch, as strictly defined, can result from human activity.

We are witnessing a time when the human impact on the earth system is growing exponentially, spawning the proposed naming of a new geological era, where the earth system is under the influence of the human race: the Anthropocene, of «the Age of Man» (and Woman).

That is, the Age of Humans: a geological epoch defined by the impact of human activity on the earth.

Earth scientists now know that the history of our planet has been set for some time in our current geological age, the Anthropocene.

This scenario is actually more in line with recent — past 100,000 years — geological history, which has mostly been Ice Age, and planetary observations, which show the surface temperatures of Mars and Venus have recently risen at about the same rate as Earth's.

Many earth scientists express this by stating that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene, the Age of Huearth scientists express this by stating that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene, the Age of HuEarth has entered a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans.