Abstract
There has been a long-standing need for a convenient compilation of the radiometric data from which conclusions have been drawn concerning the length of time planet Earth and other components of the Solar System have been in existence. The Age of the Earth meets this need more than adequately. The author is Research Geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, and is preeminently qualified to give a comprehensive, authoritative, and readable treatment of the topics he addresses. In his Preface he states that the book was "written for people with some modest background in science, ... [to be] useful and informative to those without a deep knowledge of geology or physics." The book provides valuable resource material for individuals who make a professional-level witness for a creationist viewpoint, although the author's analysis of data is from a purely secular, uniformitarian approach that dismisses concepts of supernatural and revelation as purely human and non-authoritative.