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Universe's 6,000th birthday ...
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| 22 October 2004
| Radford, Tim
Posted on 10/22/2004 7:22:56 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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"It's not that we think Archbishop Ussher's date was a fraud," said Ted Nield, the society's communications officer. "It's just that it was spectacularly wrong."
Heh.
To: Publius Valerius
Why do I get the feeling this is the start of a really long thread?
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:24:58 AM PDT
by
GallopingGhost
(Freedom costs a buck o five)
To: Publius Valerius
Modern day scientists are never wrong?
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:25:23 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
("A bad peace is even worse than war" -Taticus)
To: Dallas59
Excuse me..."spectacularly wrong."
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:26:00 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
("A bad peace is even worse than war" -Taticus)
To: Publius Valerius
Ah, British science does it again.
WAY too much government funding.
To: GallopingGhost; Buggman
Why do I get the feeling this is the start of a really long thread? What? You think a thread about the age of the universe is going to start off a creationism vs. evolution debate? Never! < /sarcasm>
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:26:59 AM PDT
by
Homo_homini_lupus
(The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.)
To: GallopingGhost
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:27:55 AM PDT
by
Michael Goldsberry
(Which part of "Don't Mess With Texas" didn't you get?)
To: Publius Valerius
I wonder if he included the day that Joshua asked the Lord to keep the sun from setting.
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:28:54 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Psalm 73)
To: GallopingGhost
To: Publius Valerius
Dr Nield conceded, too, ... The real anniversary passed unnoticed, in 1997. I noticed it, back then.
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:29:46 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Never apologise. Never explain)
To: Homo_homini_lupus
Debate? Naw, I showed up for the party!
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:29:47 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(posted from the very heart of Reagan country)
To: GallopingGhost
Why do I get the feeling this is the start of a really long thread? Maybe, but there is an election season truce among the ususal suspects. No creation/evolution flame wars.
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:30:11 AM PDT
by
js1138
(D*mn, I Missed!)
To: Publius Valerius
Is my math off or wouldn't the earth be 6008 years old?
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:30:17 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: Publius Valerius
Compared to enternity the age of unviverse is one breath from God.
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:30:55 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
(Alias, VRWC_minion,)
To: Publius Valerius
Britain's geologists are about to celebrate the fact that the universe is exactly 6,000 years old. Huh? 4004 + 2004 = 6007 (minus the zero year). Good grief.
However, I think the time scale may be just a wee bit off. 12 billion years old is a little closer to the mark.
To: Publius Valerius
Funny thing about how little science really knows, String theorists can tell you that it is equally valid that the universe is the as big as 13 billion light years in diameter, or no bigger than the size of a single proton. Yet, theology speculation is just spectacularly wrong. It is amazing however, whether you believe in God or in Science...Faith exists in either a Supreme Being or a virtual particle. For me, I'll choose the Supreme Being over the virtual particle any day and question everything else in-between.
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:31:55 AM PDT
by
AMHN
To: Non-Sequitur
Is my math off or wouldn't the earth be 6008 years old?You forgot there is no year zero.
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:32:53 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(OPEN YOUR EYES, Clark Kent! You belong with CHLOE!)
To: Publius Valerius
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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posted on
10/22/2004 7:33:08 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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