Reflections of a stormy petrel

Up to a point. I cannot be pushed into a discussion of the existence of Father Christmas, either. Geology represents the results of three centuries of scientific research (whose bases, as with so many other things, were laid by an Italian of genius, Giovanni Arduino) which from the beginning implied ages well beyond the miserable few thousands of years implicit in the Jewish-Classical constructs that had dominated European learning until then. Scientific conclusions are not a matter of opinion, and to overturn three centuries of study for no reason seems to me prideful nonsense. What is more, as a paleohistorian with an interest in early cultures, I have reasons of my own to regard Young Earth theories as so much vanity.