Happy birthday, universe

According to the calculations of 17th Century Irish Bishop James Ussher, the Six Days of Creation began on October 23, 4004 B.C.

Of course, the presuppositions which led him to that conclusion- which included a duration for the universe of exactly 6000 years- meant that the world should have ended in 2004. We're apparently living on borrowed time.

Actually, whether one accepts Bishop Ussher's thesis or not, as I look around me I can't escape the conclusion that he was at least right about that much.

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