... have taken place, the earth would have to be billions of years old. However, the following evidences prove otherwise. First, the sea floor isn't thick enough. "Wind and water erode 25 billion tons of earth and rocks into the ocean every year. The average depth of the ocean right now is about 400 meters. If the earth were billions of years old, the ocean floor would be ... be transitional fossils between nonliving matter and protozoan, protozoan to metazoan, invertebrates to fish, fish to amphibians, amphibians to reptiles, reptiles to birds, reptiles to fur bearing quadrupeds, quadrupeds ...

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... was created 4,000 years before the birth of Christ, an assumption based on the chronology of the Old Testament. Instead, Lyell argued that the earth is constantly changing at a very slow rate, the same rate at which it must have always changed. Therefore, by studying mountains, glaciers, and other grand features of the planet, the world must be dramatically older than the ancestry of biblical literature indicates. ... , Darwin found evidence that supported Lyell's hypothesis. After docking on the western coast of South America, Darwin traveled up the heights of the Andes Mountains. Ther...

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