Dating meteorites age earth

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The second act of the drama sees a prolonged attempt by a new generation of geologists to estimate the age of the earth from observational evidence, to come up with an answer that would satisfy the demands of newly dominant evolutionary thinking, and to reconcile this answer with the constraints imposed by thermodynamics.

The first argument was completely undermined after taking into account the amount of heat generated by radioactive decay.

Robert Hooke, not long after, suggested that the fossil record would form the basis for a chronology that would “far antedate ...