Faith in Deep Time
As I said before, Lyell thought that the earth was very old. I think he suggested a possible age in excess of 100,000 years. That was useful for people like Darwin and Huxley who needed more time then the Bible seemed to give for their natural creation mythology to work. That was until genetics got involved in dispelling the “combined trait” fallacy. Genetic traits don’t tend to combine to produce new traits. They work more in a either-or fashion. But…