William Cowper and the Age of the Earth (June 2019)
In 1785, English poet William Cowper sounded a poetical alarm about people digging into the earth and concluding that it was older than the 6,000 years indicated in scripture. If 1785 seems a little early in the history of geology for such concern, then the question arises: How did Cowper know? Turns out — he read a lot of magazines.