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Monday, April 10, 2006

Depth of Time

Depth of Time
Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG

Published: August 23, 2005

Last month a team of paleontologists announced that it had found several fossilized dinosaur embryos that were 190 million years old - some 90 million years older than any dinosaur embryos found so far. Those kinds of numbers are always a little daunting. Ever since I was a boy in a public elementary school in Iowa, I've been learning to face the eons and eons that are embedded in the universe around us.

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