Tuesday, September 20, 2011

What Came First?

 IN ORDER: #4- I think that because it is behind number 2 so that makes me think that it was older and was covered up, plus if you look under number 2 and 3 you can see that same pattern so it must be one of the oldest. #5- It is also behind number 2 and it was right above number 4 so I think that, that came right after 4. #2- You can see that it has a crack in it and is in front of the numbers above and it is underneath number 1. B- As you can see there are cracks through the numbers listed above but not through number 1. A- You can see the line under number 1, that means that it was probably cut off from the bottom because if you look in the bottom right corner, it has the same pattern. #1-In the bottom right corner you can see the same pattern and because the bottom of the thing is straight makes me think that it's the bottom and I remember you saying that some come from the bottom up. #6- I can't see the pattern anywhere else and it looks like it's connected to number 1 so that makes me think that it was a layer beneath number 1, maybe it was the first layer to be there. #3- It comes up over and through all of the layers and over the crack.





Thursday, September 15, 2011

Debating the age of planet Earth

A while back there was this man named James Ussher, a scholar, who used religion and knowledge of the subject to trace back the dates of past events to estimate the age of the Earth, which he claimed to be 6,000 years old. From what I saw, the scientists probably started to suspect different because as you can see the rocks have many, many layers. My guess is that it takes a while to for at least one layer of rock. Another reason is because the rocks are shaped and scultped quite a bit, not by man, but like from years and years of erosion. The rocks are built up HUGE, so it must have taken a while.