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From: dino@ddsw1.UUCP (Laura Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,soc.women
Subject: Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 12:03:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 12:03:25 1987
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In article <1367@aecom.YU.EDU> werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>	2.  "Eve," so called, is far too old.  She is anywhere from
>50,000 to 500,000 years old, and as everyone knows, the world was
>created in 6 days and nights, oh, about 5000 years ago  (I'm not
>whether Bishop Usher's calculations agree with the Jewish calendar,
>which would put the Earth's age at 5248 years plus 4 1/2 weeks.)

Not so, my esteemed Mr. Werner.  I don't have a Bible handy for an 
exact quote, but the verse which says something like: "The earth was 
without form and void" could be *equally* *as* *well* translated
from the original Hebrew as "The earth became a waste and a desolation."
This comes right before the bit about the world being created in 6 days
and nights, implying that God *RE*created the world in 6 days and nights 
after wiping out an older failed model.  Everybody knows the earth is
older than 5248 years.  

People who believe in evolution don't keep up with creationism.  

-- 
Laura Watson             ...ihnp4!ddsw1!dino

Contentment is the smother of invention.