In the following quote, who and what was James Huxley criticizing?
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in. . . so pages of formulae will not get a definite result of loose data.
A) He thought that Hutton's time scale, based on sedimentation, was too slow.
B) He thought that Earth's age, as calculated from biblical stories, was too young.
C) He thought that William Thomson's heat-based model was inaccurate.
D) He thought that John Joly's salty water calculations were too fastidious.
Question 2
What did the author of the following quote mean?
The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning -- no prospect of an end.
A) James Hutton had postulated the age of the Earth, and it was considerably older than most scientists imagined.
B) Unconformities, nonconformities, and the slow rate of erosion defined Earth as much older than religious leaders and scientists of the time believed.
C) The water cycle had a much greater scope and a capacity of hidden water than scientists had imagined.
D) Rocks had been transforming through the rock cycle for billions of years and could be expected to continue to do so for billions of years more.
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