“We have not released giant badgers in Basra, and nor have we been collecting eggs and releasing serpents into the Shatt al-Arab river,” Major David Gell told reporters.
Cue the Monty Python references.
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‘History’s Shortest Geological Column’
Russel Seitz offers at the Adamant ‘Deep Time For Dummies’, ‘Biblically Correct Geochronology’, based on ‘the addition of Begats by eminent 17th century divine Archbishop Ussher and the noted Revelation scholar & alchemist Sir Isaac Newton’:
A brief excerpt:
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2584 B.C.: Earliest sedimentation; discovery of slate leads to stone tablets.
…2384 B.C.: Breathable atmosphere develops; first sermon preached.
…1794 B.C.: Children of Ham split from Israelites, insisting that the Burgess Shale fauna are kosher; chowder invented.
1704 B.C.: Charshumash the Hittite bitten by first vertebrate; lawyers emerge from slime.
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A.D. 494: Snakes evolve and are driven out of Ireland.
Read the whole thing, for it is good.