{"id":3406,"date":"2008-10-23T10:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/10\/its-earths-official-birthday\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T10:31:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:31:54","slug":"its-earths-official-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/10\/its-earths-official-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Earth&#8217;s Official Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I say official, because, just like the <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queens_birthday>Queen&#8217;s<\/a>, the date does not actually mean much from a natal perspective. Nonetheless, the night preceding, or the morning of, October 23rd, 4004 BC is the date that Archbishop Ussher, after a bit of fudging around with Biblical genealogies, reportedly assigned as the moment in which our planet popped into existence.<br \/>\nFor the full story, go read some <a href=http:\/\/www.stephenjaygould.org\/library\/gould_house-ussher.html>Stephen Jay Gould<\/a>. Or better yet, <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/04\/the-chronologers-quest\/>read this book<\/a>. The take home message is that Ussher can be forgiven for treating the Bible as literal history, and indeed should be saluted as a fine scholar. His modern day contempories, on the other hand, are cut from an entirely different (anti-)intellectual cloth. Although they have to work quite hard at it nowadays (via <a href=http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/happy-birthday-universe.html>Exploring Our Matrix<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"creation-20060918.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/creation-20060918.gif\" width=\"290\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, just for a sense of just <em>how much<\/em> these people are denying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"birthday_tscale.png\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/birthday_tscale.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whilst I know that you should always err on the side of caution with a lady&#8217;s age, this is like telling a 35 year old they look they were conceived less than half an hour ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say official, because, just like the Queen&#8217;s, the date does not actually mean much from a natal perspective. Nonetheless, the night preceding, or the morning of, October 23rd, 4004 BC is the date that Archbishop Ussher, after a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/10\/its-earths-official-birthday\/\">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":[31,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-geology","category-ranting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","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=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}