{"id":990,"date":"2011-05-06T15:44:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/05\/why_geologists_are_wrong_wrong\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T03:44:38","slug":"why-geologists-are-wrong-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/05\/why-geologists-are-wrong-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"why geologists are wrong, wrong, wrong! about the age of the earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">I came across the following diagram on Peter Bowditch&#8217;s wonderful&nbsp;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratbags.com\/rsoles\/\">The Millenium Project<\/a><\/i>. Like him, I hope it&#8217;s a poe; but nonetheless, I find it has a certain dreadful fascination. Who knew that geologists could get it so wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"684\" alt=\"proving atheists wrong with science.jpg\" width=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/09\/proving20atheists20wrong20with20science.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the following diagram on Peter Bowditch&#8217;s wonderful&nbsp;The Millenium Project. Like him, I hope it&#8217;s a poe; but nonetheless, I find it has a certain dreadful fascination. 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