Shouldn't that be 6000 years?

[Mulder]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7639024.stm

[Pebble]

It's very simple, god is playing games with us - it's a test of our faith. All archeologists are going to hell.

[farmersboy]

All archeologists are going to hell.

Where they'll spend all eternity telling Tony Robinson he can't jump down into the trench?

[ptenisnet]

Jeremy Hardy on the News Quiz:

"6000 years? We tell jokes that are older than that..."

[Tim the Mage]

“In the beginning, God created heaven and earth, which beginning of time, according to this chronology, occurred at the beginning of the night which preceded the 23rd of October in the year 710 of the Julian period.” In the right margin of the page, Ussher computes the date in “Christian” time as 4004 B.C.

It is important to be precise in our errors - 6012 years.

[Croydon Bob]

It is important to be precise in our errors - 6012 years.

6011 - there was no year 0.

[polomint38]

The rock doesn't even exist yet, as a member of the Church of Next Tuesday, the universe and the rest of us come into existance on 14 October 2008.

I think one problem I foresee of our church is we will need to change our name each week.
Church of next Tuesday
Church of Today (14th October only)
Church of yesterday (15 October)
Church of Last Tuesday (16th 0 23rd)
Church of 2 Tuesdays ago.

I will nave to remember not to order to much stationary at any 1 time.

[Tim the Mage]

The rock doesn't even exist yet, as a member of the Church of Next Tuesday, the universe and the rest of us come into existance on 14 October 2008.

I think one problem I foresee of our church is we will need to change our name each week.
Church of next Tuesday
Church of Today (14th October only)
Church of yesterday (15 October)
Church of Last Tuesday (16th 0 23rd)
Church of 2 Tuesdays ago.

I will nave to remember not to order to much stationary at any 1 time.

Not at all since the revelation is that creation will take place next Tuesday. Deniers of that will burn in hell/should be burnt as heathens/subjected to the test of fire/sacrificed to appease the spirit of Monday night.

True believers accept that one day next Tuesday will arrive and we will float from the earth transfixed by the true revelation of Tuesday's truth.

You sir are a heretic and must die!!!

[Matt]

Well it's Tuesday and I see you're correct, the earth does indeed exist today.

Back on topic. Life 4.28 Billion years ago? That'd be something suprising if it can be verified.

[Croydon Bob]

Life 4.28 Billion years ago? That'd be something suprising if it can be verified.

Hindu creationists have already "proved" it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cremo

I saw a Cremo talk many years ago and he had an extraordinarily confused idea of evolution happening but excluding humans. So four billion years ago we were here eating... ?