... including some (like me) who are on this mailing list. (Well, I wasn't
actually included in the poll, but if I had been, I'd be part of the 57%.)
Kim Borgman <[log in to unmask]> on 05/15/2002 01:23:35 PM
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reminds me of reading the San Jose newspaper in the airport waiting for my
flight on the way back from the 3K solutions conference in April. In a
Gallop poll, 57 % of those polled believed in the Bible view of Creation.
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From: Michael Berkowitz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'
Wirt (uncharacteristically misspeaks)
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That's true. The number of scientists who believe that global warming is
*not* a threat is only slightly larger than the number of scientists who
believe that the earth was created 4004 years ago.
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Actually the biblical creation of the earth by Bishop Ussher is 4004 BC or
6005 years ago (remember no year zero) as this snippet from
http://www.uctaa.org/Essays/meditations/med020.html
In the 1650s, James Ussher, (Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland,
and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin) a noted churchman and as a
scholar published his findings regarding the date of creation and other
biblical events. He determined the date of creation was Sunday 23 October
4004 BC, and the date of many other events, such as that Adam and Eve were
driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched
down on Mt. Ararat on Wednesday 5 May 1491 BC. About ten years earlier,
exactly the same date of creation was established by John Lightfoot, the
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, the difference being that he was
able to establish the 9:00 am as the exact time of creation. [He did not go
so far as to mention which time zone was applicable nor whether god was
still on daylight savings time that late in October.]
Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.
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