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MasterJedi
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14 Feb 2011, 3:42 pm

13.7 billion years ago...the earth would be nearly 3 times as old as it is currently thought to be.


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14 Feb 2011, 3:44 pm

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No no, its 6000 in 'God years', which are kind of like 'Dog years', but instead of 1 year translating into 7, 6000 translates in 13.7 billion, and Dog is God spelled backwards furthering the empirical evidence for my theory


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14 Feb 2011, 4:24 pm

MasterJedi wrote:
13.7 billion years ago...the earth would be nearly 3 times as old as it is currently thought to be.


I was actually referring to the theorized age of the universe, which looking back is not what I meant to refer to :lol: :)


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15 Feb 2011, 7:18 am

MasterJedi wrote:
it's not in the bible. It was thought by a mathematician from the Vatican that the Earth was created on a Wednesday sometime in the afternoon 6,000 years ago. He was in error.


True, but the Bible does suggest that the universe is much younger than it actually looks (around 10,000 years of age).