Ancient Youth. Roses and the Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Autumn was already fast upon Edinburgh. But in the cold we had a nice hike around the Salisbury Crags anyway. Flowers were no longer in their youth and most Roses had already formed Hips, and this pair is sure quickly to follow suit. Examining it, I realised Roses developed over about 35 million years (flowering plants of course have been around about 140 million). But that 35 million is a drop in a bucket of water compared to the geological age of the Crags.
They're the result of the eruption of a volcano some 350 million years ago. Of course those ages are a far cry from the Christian idea that the earth is a mere 6000 years old, and that's exactly what created problems for the great Scottish geologist, James Hutton (1726-1797). His researches led him to discount the 'biblical' account of earth's creation with his idea of 'deep time' or 'geological time' which also posited the perpetual formation of the earth (instead of creation 'once and for all time'). One of Hutton's cases in point was derived from his meticulous examination of these Salisbury Crags,
Ancient Youth. Roses and the Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Autumn was already fast upon Edinburgh. But in the cold we had a nice hike around the Salisbury Crags anyway. Flowers were no longer in their youth and most Roses had already formed Hips, and this pair is sure quickly to follow suit. Examining it, I realised Roses developed over about 35 million years (flowering plants of course have been around about 140 million). But that 35 million is a drop in a bucket of water compared to the geological age of the Crags.
They're the result of the eruption of a volcano some 350 million years ago. Of course those ages are a far cry from the Christian idea that the earth is a mere 6000 years old, and that's exactly what created problems for the great Scottish geologist, James Hutton (1726-1797). His researches led him to discount the 'biblical' account of earth's creation with his idea of 'deep time' or 'geological time' which also posited the perpetual formation of the earth (instead of creation 'once and for all time'). One of Hutton's cases in point was derived from his meticulous examination of these Salisbury Crags,