Darwin’s voyage on the beagle and his subsequent work on evolution pushed human origins – and indeed the origins of life itself – into an unthinkably distant past. geologists had already demonstrated that the earth was far older than previously believed, undermining the calculation made by archbishop ussher (see chapter 2).

–a history of the world in 100 objects,
neil macgregor

based on context clues in the passage, what is the best definition of the word geologist?

a person who studies the earth
a kind of ship used for exploration
a type of religious leader
a period of change and uncertainty

A

Explanation:

I always thought that a geologists really studies rocks and rock formations.

Certainly he would not be a ship.

Nor would he be a religious leader. If that was so, Bishop Ussher estimate of the earth's age (6000 years old) would make a geologist a religious leader.

Darwin did bring in an age of change and uncertainty, but that is not the function of a geologist.

The closest answer is A

the rhetorical devices that he used in "common sense" are syntax for his sentence structure and pathos for his emotion against the british unfairly treating the "americans" and logos of what documents that what happened to the pilgrims when they had the mayflower compact and how that the british were wanting to have one religion but the compact said for any religion to be accepted.

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