Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1920 — Thinks Earth Will Last Many Years. [ARTICLE]

Thinks Earth Will Last Many Years.

Tn a recent lecture Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent English scientist, announced that the earth would probably continue to exist for 20,000,000 years more. These are, of course, round numbers. Some scientists estimate that the earth will live for ten times this age. There have been animals of one kind and another on this planet for fully this length of time. The dinosaurs are believed to have lived through some such period. The age of man, which Is probably only a few thousand years, seems the merest trifle by comparison. When we consider how man has developed during recorded history, which Is less than ten thousand years, we may hope that he will evolve to an infinitely finer type In the future.— Boys’ Life.