The Dating Game

How old is the Earth? At the end of the nineteenth century scientists were all looking for a clock that would provide an answer to this the greatest Time question of all. The Dating Game tells the story of one man''s vision of developing a geological timescale a great vision which lasted fifty years despite scientific opposition financial hardship and personal tragedy. Arthur Holmes fought to convince The Establishment of an Earth of great antiquity: a fight which eventually transformed the moribund ''art'' of geology into a dynamic science.