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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

No point in taking apart the ignorance in display, but I found A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson to be eye opening, science history for laymen.

One related item surprised me. Long before we arrived at the Earth's age, proto-scientists, natural philosophers or what have you, were puzzled. Even a couple of hundred years back they couldn't explain the age of the Earth given their observations, thinking a few million years couldn't be possible. Turns out, they were right, just not thinking big enough.