 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 448 pages
...million years ? Because this really makes all the difference.1 I presume that 100,000 feet may be taken as a full allowance for the total thickness of stratified rocks containing traces of life ; 100,000 divided by 100,000,000 = 0'001. Consequently, the deposit of 100,000 feet of stratified rock... | |
 | Robert Withers Memminger - Christianity - 1872 - 252 pages
...theories, a prophecy of the future. Thus Professor Huxley : "I presume that 100,000 feet may be taken as a full allowance for the total thickness of stratified rocks, containing traces of life ; 100,000 divided by 100,000,000 = o.ooi. Consequently, the deposit of 100,000,000 years means, that... | |
 | Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Edwin Tulley Newton - Geology - 1887 - 704 pages
...to our estimates of time, which it is desirable not to overstep. The question has naturally arisen whether this estimated period of time is sufficient...may be estimated to have taken place at the rate of -ruVo °fa foot, or -fa of an inch per annum. And this is a rate which no one can consider too rapid.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biology - 1894 - 428 pages
...million years ? Because this really makes all the difference. l I presume that 100,000 feet may be taken as a full allowance for the total thickness of stratified rocks containing traces of life ; 100,000 divided by 100,000,000 = O'OOl. Consequently, the deposit of 100,000 feet of stratified rock... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biologists - 1901 - 724 pages
...million years? Because this really makes all the difference.1 I presume that 100,000 feet may be taken as a full allowance for the total thickness of stratified rocks containing traces of life ; 100,000 divided by 1 00,000,000 = oxx>i. Consequently, the deposit of 100,000 feet of stratified... | |
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Now does this mean that it may have been two, or three, or four hundred million years ? Because this really makes all the difference. 