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From: "David Lamb" <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] Roy's Adam & Eve Genealogy
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 07:50:48 -0000
References: <200301051247.h05ClAo31159@mail.freeola.enta.net>

Hello,

I am not a killjoy, and till now have thoroughly enjoyed the light-hearted
banter of this thread. I have no qualms at all about fun being poked at
Ussher, Helen of Troy and so on. I certainly don't object to good-natured
fun being poked at me. However, I am sure that I am not the only one to
find the "half day closing" joke about God extremely offensive. I am not
saying that the writer meant it that way - he probably wasn't aware that
there are people who really believe the bible, including such verses as
Isaiah 40.28:

"Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The
Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His
understanding is unsearchable."

To such people, the idea of God "taking time off" (even if only expressed as
a joke) grates and jars.

Sorry to bring this serious point into a humorous thread.

Regards,

David Lamb (Paignton, Devon, UK)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy R Cody" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [YKS] Roy's Adam & Eve Genealogy

> ARCHBISHOP Ussher was mistaken.
>
> Whilst he was undeniably an outstanding scholar and theologian, his
> calculations were performed using a sun dial with a badly cracked
> face and a set of perpetual calendars forged by the notoriously
> unreliable hermit monk, Septimus the Specious, at Gomersal in the 4th
> century AD.
>
> These major errors threw his mathematics out by several thousand
> years (and, BTW, according to my reference book he claimed it was
> Saturday, October 22nd 4004 BC that was the first day of creation,
> not the following day).
>
> It is highly unlikely, in any case, that Adam and Eve could have been
> expelled on Monday, November 10th 4004 BC, since that was a half-day
> closing day and God would have been on holiday.
>
> Tim Roskill-Cody
>
> ______________________________

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