Within the last two centuries there was a complete change on the concealed age of the Earth by specialists: it changed from some thousands to nearly 4,6 billion years. The study of geological time requires an integrated application of specific methods for the determination of rock ages: the stratigraphical, paleontological and geochronological methods. In order to get best results under different situations, the methods are often combined; this interdependence belongs to the foundations of the study of Earth’s past. Analogies are often applied to help explaining the ideas of "deep time" or "abyss of time", but these are probably among the most complex concepts to be understood by people in general, for the complex relationships to be stablished and the unusual scales involved. The evolution of Geology as a science followed such inflexion on the way of thinking on the age of the Earth. Within the modern concept of both Geosciences or Earth Sciences, a knowledge on the heated discussions linked to the subject is needed to understand the way the principles and methods turned out the planet "aged"
