Download or read book The Dating Game written by Cherry Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How old is the Earth? At the end of the 19th century, geologists, biologists, physicists and astronomers were all looking for a clock that would provide an answer to this greatest time question of all. Here is the story of one man's vision in developing a geological time scale that would finally lead to an accurate date for the age of the Earth