Buffon estimated the Earth to be 3 4 million years old

Last updated: 10/15/2023

Buffon estimated the Earth to be 3 4 million years old during the 1700s scientists now understand the earth to be about 4 5 billion years old but his findings were important because O His results demonstrated that cooling bodies do not work His findings were NOT important to developing a theory of evolution after all O He proved that animals don t evolve but only degenerate over time O They helped push back the age of the earth thus estimating more time to accommodate evolution in animals