“I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess you’re not a geologist.”
And the earth is still the center of the universe... It never ceases to amaze me how a salesman and opportunistic cleric could have such lasting influence with a theory that defies all physical reality.
When Ussher stole and re-sold this theory from Lightfoot with a new creation date just to gain notoriety and favor in the church and king’s court, Galileo had been excommunicated only 17 years earlier. Reality has come a long way since, it is no longer the 1500s...
Yet... It still continues.
I think many people are frightened of a God who could create a universe the is something like 13 billion years old. It is far more comforting to confine Him to a more readily graspable limit of 6,000 years. Of course, if my ancestors came from Chatal Huyak (sp?) I would be really pixxed.