{"id":3216,"date":"2007-10-24T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T08:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/knees-up-mother-earth\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T08:30:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T08:30:28","slug":"knees-up-mother-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/knees-up-mother-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Knees up, Mother Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How could I <a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/laelaps\/2007\/10\/we_find_no_vestige_of_a_beginn.php>forget<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2007\/10\/get_out_there_and_party_like_i.php>the Earth&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2007\/10\/23\/46-billion-years-you-dont-look-a-day-over-6010\/>birthday<\/a>? For a geologist, I&#8217;m fairly sure that&#8217;s an unforgivable sin.<br \/>\nOf course, October the 23rd only has geochronological significance if you believe the biblical calculations of Archbishop Ussher (or <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/04\/the-chronologers-quest\/>possibly one of his contempories<\/a>), which led to the infamous 4004 BC date being inscribed on the first page of the King James Bible. If you do, you&#8217;d have to fit 6010 candles on the birthday cake: assuming each candle takes up 1 square cm of iced real estate, it would have to be about 90 cm across to fit them all on. That&#8217;s a pretty big cake.<br \/>\nHowever, anyone who has bothered to pay attention to reality in the last couple of hundred years knows that if it was really the Earth&#8217;s birthday a few more candles would be required &#8211; four and a half billion more, in fact. It makes the cake somewhat larger, too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NYcake.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NYcake.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And with that, creationism&#8217;s severe lack of ambition &#8211; both intellectual <em>and<\/em> culinary &#8211; is, finally, properly exposed. Creationists would bake our dear home planet a birthday cake which you could fit on your desk. Geologists would bake one that you could probably see from space. Although I imagine that there&#8217;d be a few disagreements over the flavour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could I forget the Earth&#8217;s birthday? For a geologist, I&#8217;m fairly sure that&#8217;s an unforgivable sin. Of course, October the 23rd only has geochronological significance if you believe the biblical calculations of Archbishop Ussher (or possibly one of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/knees-up-mother-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-bloggery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}