I've always thought that JS. As a kid at school we were told about the different ages the earth has gone through over the last few thousand years. The older I get, the less a few thousand years seems a long time. They told us we could walk to France at one time, or the UK was a block of ice once.
Then I was talking to some guy's drilling at the Ford factory in Dagenham some years back. They showed me some things they had taken as samples while drilling, and one was a sharks tooth. They said that at one time the Thames was a part of a tropical sea, and contained remains, deep down under the land, of the animals of that age. They reckoned that the whole London area was once a seabed, another time, it was frozen solid with ice.
So yes, the times they are a changing.
