As recently as a few hundred years ago, most Westerners thought the earth was about how many years old?
A)60 million
B)6 million
C)60,000
D)6,000

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As recently as a few hundred years ago, most Westerners believed in the biblical account of creation, which placed the age of the Earth at around 6,000 years. It wasn't until the development of modern geology and the discovery of fossils that scientists began to realize that the Earth was much older than previously believed.

As Recently as a Few Hundred Years Ago, Most Westerners