The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-06

| This foots up forty minutes short Of
| twenty -four hours, but that is immateriai
Now the carboniferous strata belong &c
the upper Paleozoic age, and these ''coal
measures" constitute only fifth part OF
that age, as measured on the diagram in
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. fifth
part of eight hours nine minutes and
! thirty seconds Is ninety-eight minutes, less
| one-tenth of a minute. Consequently. il
! the time required for the deposition OF
the coal measures was 10000, 900 years, the
entire geological formation required 1885,
| 00a, 600 years.
In recent article in The Times on "The
! Age of the Earth" from which the esti-
mate of ten million years for the car
! boniferous period is taken, there is cal
culation based on a maximum thickness o,
fifty miles of stratified rock. Assuming
that it was deposited at the rate Of one foot
in century the time required for its fos.
nation would be twenty-six million years.
in the same article it is stated that
Darwin figured out sixty million years
since the separation of the earth and moon.
But l maintain that the earth and moon
were never united. That assumption is a
part of the nebuIar hypothesis. which l
rejected more than twenty years ago. In
The Times of October 81, 1898, contro-
verted the hypothesis Of cooling worlds and
! maintained the accretion theory of world
formation.
How can worlds cool when heat rays do
not radiate through interstellar space ?
Space is c vacuum which is complete nom
conductor of heat.
How much heat does the surface of the
earth receive from within? Not one-six-
teenth of degree. Down ten miles below
the earth's surface are fossils that are
heated up to one thousand degrees Fahren-
heit. How much heat did they endure
when alive? Probably not more than one
hundred degrees. And this is your cool
ing world
The accretion hypothesis allows an
eternity of time and solves the problem of
internal heat. Space swarms with me-
teors, millions of which strike the earth's
atmosphere every twenty-four hours. A
few of them reach the solid ground with
out being reduced to gas or dust. In this
way our planet has been growing for i'm
measurable ages.
The prodigious pressure OF gravity is all
sufficient to account for the internal heat
OF planets. Jupiter is SO large that the
heat evidently comes TO its surface, which
is apparently red hot. The magnitude of
the sun is SO great that it is enveloped in
fiery gases.
But the nebular hypothesis is so restrict
ed in time as to betray its fallacy Prof.
Neweomb. in his Popular Astronomy"
tells us that our sun is cooling down, so
that in five million years it will be re-
duced in size one-half and in ten million
years life on this planet will become ex-
tinct. But the climax of absurdity is ex-
hibited in his calculation of the past life
of the sun, to wit: If the sun had. in the
beginning, filled all space, the amount of
heat generated by his contraction to his
present volume would have been sufficient
to last eighteen million years at his pres
emit rate of radiation"
Think of it! Only eighteen million years
since the vast universe OF matter was
hred up by the Creator, How much longer
Will scientists adhere to the nebular hy-
pothesis which postulates a miracle at the
outset OF creation? W. H. BURR.