Re: Happy birthday Earth
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Charles Howse wrote: Here's an interesting anniversary from my daily calendar report... History: Oct 23Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 Oct 23Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary Oct 23Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC. ^ This is based on biblical calculations. James Ussher, Bishop of Armagh worked it out as 8:00AM, October 22nd, BC 4004, and John Lightfoot of Cambridge University adjusted it to 9:00AM, October 23, BC. I haven't seen the creation time of 6:30 before but I suppose this is the result of further adjustment. In case the calendar files don't mention it, Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden on November 10, 4004 BC and the flood ended on May 5th, 1491 BC. I don't recall seeing what times those events occurred at. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy birthday Earth
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:17:50AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Here's an interesting anniversary from my daily calendar report... History: Oct 23Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 Oct 23Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary Oct 23Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC. ^ Oct 23Swallows leave Capistrano Music: Oct 22Franz Liszt born, 1811 Thanks, Charles Yes, there was this Irish bishop in the 17th century and based on the ages of the Prophets he figured out that that was the date and time the earth was created. I guess that the Irish had not invented whiskey yet or they would not had so much time for such foolishness. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 5.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy birthday Earth
--- Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:17:50AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Here's an interesting anniversary from my daily calendar report... History: Oct 23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 Oct 23 Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary Oct 23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC. ^ Oct 23 Swallows leave Capistrano Music: Oct 22 Franz Liszt born, 1811 Thanks, Charles Yes, there was this Irish bishop in the 17th century and based on the ages of the Prophets he figured out that that was the date and time the earth was created. I guess that the Irish had not invented whiskey yet or they would not had so much time for such foolishness. Josef Not to drag this discussion further off topic, but in the 15th century, the Jewish Kabbalists living in Spain using their methods of interpretation of the Torah, calculated the age of the universe to be 15 billion years old. Which, interestingly enough is relatively close to current scientific estimates of 13 billion. As I recall, they also estimated the age of the earth to 5 or 6 billion, which is also relatively close to current scientific theory. Not bad, considering this was all done before Columbus sailed to the New World (which was when the Jews were expelled from Spain). MFC: (mandatory FBSD content) if I fubared my /etc/adduser.conf, can I blow it away and have adduser just recreate it, or must I edit the file and make corrections? chris __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
