Darwin on Lyell’s Time: Darwin’s complete dependence on Lyell shows in his comment in the Origin of Species: “He who can read Sir Charles Lyell’s grand work on the Principles of Geology, which the future historian will recognise as having produced a revolution in natural science, yet does not admit how incomprehensibly vast have been […]
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Sun’s Rays to Roast Earth
“Sun’s rays to roast earth as poles flip” according to Robin McKie, Science Editor, The Observer, 10 November 2002, p.13. The earth s magnetic field protects the earth from harmful radiation and particles from the sun, but it is weakening and at the current rate of decay could disappear over the next 1,000 years. The […]