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Why bother with analogy when we have history? There were people who desired the Earth to be ancient beyond belief. They set about to find any evidence they could possibly misinterpret to support this claim. They took sediments and claimed that they accumulated slowly over millions of years rather than quickly as the result of deposition. Nobody believed their nonsense until they overthrew science and put their own people in place. After the takeover, they began searching for more backup, since the sediment story was so obviously false.

There's really no mystery at all here.
Which people desired the Earth to be ancient beyond (your) belief? Are you talking about your baloney about the X-Club? Take that nonsense to that thread. You have yet to show that this was their intent, much less show that the theories they were supporting are actually incorrect.

Besides, geologists had determined the Earth was quite old long before the X-Club or don't you read your history
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How about this Tyndall fellow?
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Tyndall visited the Alps for purposes of recreation in 1849 and began to go there yearly for the purpose of studying the glacier formation. This resulted in 1856 in an expedition with Huxley and produced a joint treatise 'On the Structure and Motion of Glaciers'. For the next four years glaciers became the major focus of Tyndall's scientific interest. In the process he became an accomplished mountaineer and in 1860 he made the first ascent of the Weisshorn. He also published 'Glaciers of the Alps' in this year.

There's more to the story, naturally. I think the other thread's a better place for the rest. I was mistaken when I said "after the takeover". It's surprising how far back some of these thing go, when you take the time to investigate. But the motives are always the same.

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