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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 Earth's age, as calculated from biblical stories, was too young.
B) He thought that John Joly's salty water calculations were too fastidious.
C) He thought that William Thomson's heat-based model was inaccurate.
D) He thought that Hutton's time scale, based on sedimentation, was too slow.
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How Does Earth Work? Physical Geology and the Process of Science

How Does Earth Work? Physical Geology and the Process of Science


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