All The More Reason


Roughly how old is the earth?
July 1, 2007, 5:10 pm
Filed under: Education, Science

The title of this post, amongst with other basic science questions, is yours for the taking at the Observer. I really enjoyed the following response from “Scientist author” Susan Greenfield:

Oh blimey. Well, I know that human beings have been going for about a million and a half years, so … I’m just grasping here. Something like 60 billion years or something like that, but that’s a grasp. I’m not a physical scientist and it shows. I’m probably not scientifically literate.

Indeed.

J.S.