[EBUCK]

Doesn't amber actualy mean electricity or lighting in greek?

EBUCK

[PatrickHenry]

Doesn't amber actualy mean electricity or lighting in greek?

I donno. But amber can be used to generate static electricity, so there's an obvious connection.

[Virginia-American]

electr-[case endings] is amber in Greek. Electrum = amber-colored alloy of gold and silver.

[dogbyte12]

I am waiting for the creationists to come here and claim that this guy is under 6,000 years old because obviously he has to be younger than Adam and Eve.

I do agree with the creationists on one point. We often make wild assumptions based on small amounts of data. If scientists in 5 million years come down, find only the elephant man's remains, they will have a very strange view of what human's were like. Sometimes the guesses are very educated, other times, later discoveries prove them wrong. But, the sticking your head in the sand and pretending that the earth is 6,000 years old crowd really is getting silly. Most christian denominations have moved beyond that, including the Catholic Church. Maybe, one day, the rest of the lot will as well.