Thursday, October 23, 2008

Happy Birthday, Earth!

As I head out to come back home to Rexburg and mountains of late homework after an awesome concert by Apocalyptica (which I'll post about soon!), I'd like to say a quick Happy 6012th Birthday to Earth.


About 400 years ago, a man named
James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, published a timeline for Earth's history including a date for its creation. He did this by careful study of the Old Testament and some tricky calculations. When was the Earth created? The night preceding October 23, 4004BC. So let's blow out 6012 candles!

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