[humblegunner]

It's actually 6000 years old.

So.. relatively new then?

[Jim W N]

Relative, I guess so. But 6000 years of the same thing isn’t what you’d call a “new” idea.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There are arguments about whether 6000 is literal or symbolic. 6000 is a Jewish tradition, and Judaism was the cradle of Christianity. Actually the count in Jewish tradition is not yet quite 6000 — 6000 is the point at which the world is supposed to end. It was deduced by numerical mysticism from the presence of six “aleph” characters in the first verse of Genesis in the original Hebrew — aleph also being a term that means thousand.

I go pretty much whole hog old-earth creationist here. The Einsteinian theory of relativity will yield the scientific rationale for any time dilatation that is needed. Translated: what it looked like in God’s time frame depends on how fast God moved, and approaching or exceeding warp speed is no problem for an omnipotent Deity.

[Bogie]

I’d like to know what the Indians were thinking 13,000 years ago.