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 age of the Earth is approximately 4.54 Â± 0.05 billion years. This dating is based on evidence from radiometric age-dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the radiometric ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples. Following the development of radiometric age-dating in the early 20th century, measurements of lead in uranium-rich minerals showed that some were in excess of a billion years old. The oldest such minerals analyzed to dateâsmall crystals of zircon ...