Me and Neanderthal

Every cognizant human being understands what time is,  

but how many really know the facts about geologic time?

Geologic time is Earth's time, the way we measure her 

age, she's 4.5 billion years old our planet, and that's a fact 

We break geologic time into increments of 10 million years

and in geologic time 10 million years is a very tiny number

because it takes one-hundred 10 million to make a billion

(Imagine waiting ten million years one-hundred times!)

300,000 years ago, which is only one-thirtieth of 10 million

we first showed up, and when I say 'we' I mean humanity 

Ten-thousand years ago, which is one-thirtieth of 300k

we at last evolved from cave-dwelling hunter gatherers 

into farmers who domesticate animals, and we lived 

together in villages, yet we knew nothing, we were still 

superstitious, frightened, and bewildered, and to get our 

grips on the mysteries of the world we simply started 

making stuff up to explain what we couldn't understand

Then 500 years ago, one-twentieth of ten thousand

(Imagine waiting for five-hundred years twenty times)

the first human scientists were born, so obviously it hasn't

been long in geologic time since discovering scientific 

facts, and it's going be awhile before everyone wholly 

believes in them, but we'll get there, I promise, now 

imagine how good it's going to be when that day comes