Unfortunately Darwin paid heed to Kelvin's estimates, and spent much of his later career trying to model evolutionary theory that fit within tens of millions of years instead of thousands of millions.
The geologists who were vocal about their estimates of the age of the earth were a distinct minority at the time; it's hard to blame Darwin for not crediting them. Still, one wonders what he could have accomplished if he didn't spend so much effort doing time compression on evolution.
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Date: 2011-05-13 02:33 pm (UTC)The geologists who were vocal about their estimates of the age of the earth were a distinct minority at the time; it's hard to blame Darwin for not crediting them. Still, one wonders what he could have accomplished if he didn't spend so much effort doing time compression on evolution.