>In Darwin's day it was thought that the earth was millions of years old. It
>was a weakness in Darwin's theory because that was not enough time for
>evolution to have happened. Almost a half-century after he died
>cosmologists and physicists discovered that the earth and the universe were
>*billions* of years old. They changed everyone's mind about the short
>life-span of the earth, but not by saying "well, we feel it's lots older,
>that's our opinion and we're entitled to our opinion." They did it by
>presenting convincing evidence.
Like the evidence that shows that the formation of all the major metazoan
phyla took place within 5 million years?
Maybe you need to put that argument away; it doesn't work anymore.
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noe.com