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Happy Birthday 2 U
Everyone blow a horn because today is the universe's 6,000th birthday:
At 6pm tonight at the Geological Society of London, scientists will raise their glasses to James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, who in 1650 used the chronology of the Bible to calculate the precise date and moment of creation.Working from the book of Genesis, and risking some speculation on the Hebrew calendar, he calculated that it began at 6pm on Saturday October 22, 4004 BC.
And the people did rejoice, and did feast upon the lambs, and toads, and tree-sloths, and fruit-bats, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals...
You know.. it hurts it really does to try and understand their logic.
Posted by: Joshua on October 22, 2004 09:58 AMWell, there's your problem right there... you're assuming this has anything to do with logic. Just because something is carefully calculated doesn't mean it's logical.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on October 22, 2004 03:46 PMwell - at least they can add. they're adding the wrong things, but they can add.
that's better than some of the freaks out there...
Posted by: ron on October 22, 2004 04:38 PM