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I am obliged to side with my students and just shrug off this inconvenience of the (non) end of the Earth. I content myself with the idea that standing in front of a class of listless students at eight every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning is simply my lot in the rapture - and I will be doing it for the next 999 years...then again, perhaps I am already in purgatory? Chris Baldwin bivalve wrote: > The 4004 BC date was based on the assuption that history is divided into 1000 year intervals, rather than on adding up the genealogies in the Bible (which don't give all the necessary numbers, even if you ignore evidence for gaps, rounding, and scribal errors). I think that means that October 22, 1997 (or rather about a month earlier, because of the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars) was not only the 6000th birthday of the earth but also the end of the earth. Did anyone notice it was gone? > > -----Original message----- > From: "Andy Rindsberg" arindsberg@gsa.state.al.us > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:50:54 -0400 > To: PaleoNet@nhm.ac.uk > Subject: paleonet FW: [TSFS] Happy Birthday Universe! > > >> Bishop Ussher raises his ugly head again. I'm trying to think what I was >> doing on the evening of October 22, 1997... Where was the party? >> >> Andrew K. Rindsberg >> Geological Survey of Alabama >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1333008,00.html >> >> >> > > > > Dr. David Campbell > Old Seashells > University of Alabama > Biodiversity & Systematics > Dept. Biological Sciences > Box 870345 > Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA > bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com > > That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at Droitgate Spa >
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