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What did Robert Hooke hypothesize about the Earth's age?

  • It is literally as stated in the Bible

  • It is billions of years old

  • It is millions of years old

  • He disputed the literally Biblical view

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Robert Hooke hypothesized that the Earth's age was not as literally stated in the Bible, which was a revolutionary idea at the time and contributed to the development of geology and paleontology.
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