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To: thomaswest
"(a blip on the 13 billion years since the big bang)."

If we could accept the notion that the Big Bang happened on say for the sake of reference, January 1, 13 billion 6 thousand years ago.....

I cannot help myself wondering just what the New Year's Eve party was like on 31 December 13,000,006,001 BC! I suppose that nobody showed up, but if they knew then what we know now, it might have been a serious hoot.

Sorry, I'm stupid, but my solar powered calculator stopped doing scientific notation calculations for me earlier this week. That was right after one of those Thermodynamics Law thingys stopped supporting my perpetual motion calculator keyboard.

150 posted on 06/22/2006 6:31:02 PM PDT by Radix (Stop domestic violence. Beat abroad.)
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To: Radix; Coyoteman
Re 150: If we could accept the notion that the Big Bang happened on say for the sake of reference, January 1, 13 billion 6 thousand years ago.....

I think that Bishop Usher who came up with the 6006 BCE date--from adding up all the dates of begetting and dying in the Bible---said the Moment of Creation was on October 13, a Tuesday, at 2:30 PM. I am not sure whether this is on the Julian Calendar or Gregorian Calendar.

It is interesting that the good bishop never looked at Hindu or Buddhist chronologies. And he was totally ignorant of Maya and Inca chronologies. And in all the bishop's life, he never once heard about "radioactive decay" or even the periodic table of the elements, much less the understanding of sperm, ova, DNA, genetics, or germs.

Witch doctors do not have a good record in setting broken bones without X-rays; bishops do not have a good record in estimating the age of the earth.

166 posted on 06/22/2006 7:03:21 PM PDT by thomaswest (Humanists are wonderfully moral people, too.)
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