The charter class of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville enrolled 53 first-year medical students in August 2012, with that number growing to 100 first-year medical students by 2015, and an ultimate 400 medical students over all four years of education.
SCIENTIFIC AGE OF THE EARTH. efore analyzing the arguments advanced by creation âscientistsâ for a very young Earth, I here summarize briefly the evidence that has convinced scientists that the Earth is 4.5 to 4.6 billion years old.
The generally accepted age of the Earth is based on a simple but elegant model for the evolution of lead isotopes. This model was developed independently by Houtermans (65) and Holmes (63), and first applied to meteorites and the Earth by Clair Patterson, now at the California Institute of Technology, in 1953.