Before 1700,most Western scientists thought the earth was about 4.6 billion years old.

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Before 1700, most Western scientists believed in a young earth theory that dated the earth to be only a few thousand years old. It wasn't until the 18th and 19th centuries that scientists began to develop a more accurate understanding of the earth's age through geological evidence and the discovery of radioactivity. The current estimate for the age of the earth is 4.54 billion years.

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