[H. Paul Pressler IV]

If not shale some kind of sedimentary rock formation.

However, when I was in Sunday School when I was six I was told the Earth was 6,000 years old. Thus the earth would now be 6,035 years old. What ever the case that wood up on that mountain sure does petrify much faster than they taught me in college Geology!

[silverleaf]

We are attuned to thinking of 6000 years in earth/human time.

What is the equivalent of 6000 earth years in "God time"?

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Cosmos/CosmicMysteryTour.html

[silverleaf]

Speaking of 6000 years...

I thought you'd find this very interesting.
http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20060701/44a5f340_3ca6_1552620060701-723814122

On the Roots of Mankind

"With the help of a statistician, a computer scientist and a supercomputer, Olson has calculated just how interconnected the human family tree is. You would have to go back in time only 2,000 to 5,000 years - and probably on the low side of that range - to find somebody who could count every person alive today as a descendant.

Furthermore, Olson and his colleagues have found that if you go back a little farther - about 5,000 to 7,000 years ago - everybody living today has exactly the same set of ancestors. In other words, every person who was alive at that time is either an ancestor to all 6 billion people living today, or their line died out and they have no remaining descendants.

That revelation is "especially startling," statistician Jotun Hein of England's Oxford University wrote in a commentary on the research published by the journal Nature.