Steve Jones book, "Darwin's Ghost ... the Origin of Species updated." From page 195 ..."We live not a hundred million but four thousand five hundred million years since the Earth was spun from dust and rock around the sun. The evidence comes not from our own planet, but from its satellite. The Moon flew off its parent after a great impact. Because it stayed small, cold and undisturbed it gives a better picture of the past than does its parent. A quick trip by the Apollo XI mission was enough to date it. The Earth's turmoil makes it harder to trace its own origin. its oldest rocks, found in Greenland and Western Australia, are just under four billion years old."
You may want to investigate what they call the “gap theory”.
Steve Jones was there? Or does he have access to eyewitness accounts? Was it observable?
Steve Jones book, “Darwin’s Ghost ... the Origin of Species updated.”
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