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Accurately dating the age of the Earth is commonplace today. Take a few rocks, analyze them on fancy machines, and presto, out pops the Earth's age. But these techniques are not new. A century ago, ...

Few topics have been as contentious among both scientists and laypeople as the age of the Earth. Many scientists are people of faith, but from the moment the ancients found seashell fossils high in ...

The film explores the concept of time and the methods used to measure long intervals, particularly in relation to the Earth's age. It discusses historical beliefs about the Earth's age, contrasting ...

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered that radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, broke down into other elements in a predictable sequence or series. This amazing fact ...