“In a number of cases radiochronological age calculations give results that are clearly absurd and contradict the entirety of accumulated geological and palaeontological data. In such cases “absolute chronological figures” are to be ignored as blatantly erroneous. The discrepancies between geochronological definitions using different isotope methods may reach a factor of 10x.”
In this historically significant article, Lord Rayleigh examines the scientific debate regarding the age of the Earth. Writing in the early 20th century, Rayleigh challenges the previously accepted calculations of Lord Kelvin, which had estimated the Earth’s age at only 20-40 million years. Drawing on emerging knowledge of radioactivity, Rayleigh presents evidence suggesting the Earth is significantly older—potentially billions of years old. However, he candidly acknowledges several critical shortfalls and assumptions in his methodology which remarkably, over a century later, remain the basis for modern radiometric dating.
“The builders of the Pyramid were masters of Astronomical and Geographical science, and it contains the minute measurements of the earth and heaven, far exceeding the scientific knowledge of any man in our own time, and this knowledge and the secrets thereof were known to the High Priests, and they carried out their then knowledge wherever they went. The Ark of the Covenant, built in the wilderness by Moses, Noah’s Ark, and King Solomon’s Temple, all bear a true decimal proportion to the Pyramid, and the Ark or “Sarcophagus” in the King’s chamber within the Pyramid.”
“Besides the ever memorable deluges of Noah, Ogyges, and Deucalion, we have innumerable other accounts of the waters of the ocean making less remarkable encroachments on the shores at particular times and places, and returning to their former bounds. If it were necessary, a multitude of instances might be produced; though, were I only to hint at one twentieth part of those which might be enumerated, they would far exceed the proposed bounds of the present work.”
“Antarctica today is covered by an ice sheet up to five kilometres thick. It is the coldest place on Earth. It is amazingly the driest desert on Earth, with snow only falling around its wind-blasted boundaries. But Antarctica was not always so cold and remote. Geologist Molly Miller of Vanderbilt University discovered, in the Beardmore Glacier area of Antarctica, the remains of three ancient deciduous forests complete with fossils of fallen leaves scattered around the petrified tree stumps. “These were not scrubby little things,” Miller said. “These were big trees.” … And when did this occur? Classic geology would have you believe this ice sheet to have been in existence for millions of years. Two powerful facts totally contradict this.”
“[An excerpt from] Kenneth J. Hsü’s firsthand account of one of the most fascinating deep-sea drilling cruises ever launched. This voyage, Leg 13 of the Glomar Challenger, was undertaken in 1970 and led to a spectacular geological headline: the hypothesis that about five and a half million years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a desert.”
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