Tim Urban

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

In the 1600s there were two camps of geologists: The “flood geologists” whose starting point was that the Earth was 6,000 years old and therefore that wonders like sea shell fossils in the Grand Canyon must be a result of the biblical flood. And the “science geologists”… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 19, 2022

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Not too far off. Overestimated cars, underestimated Bluetooth. — PolitiTweet.org

This is how the early 1900s saw the 2000s. https://t.co/0qQFHkSb1J

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…whose starting point was “I don’t know.” They assumed nothing and just built conclusions based on their observations. Over the following centuries the science geologists would embark up a mountain of learning as they discovered radiometric dating, the theory of Continental… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 19, 2022