The millennium is past us
To the editor,
Jason Belnap gave an interesting analysis of the problem of timing millennium babies in his March 11 letter but he left out one correction. Historical data indicates that Christ was actually born in the year 4 B.C. - the early Biblical scholars made some miscalculations when they originally set the cutoff between B.C, and A.D. Thus, Christ was born four years "Before Christ", an oxymoron ranking right up there with "jumbo shrimp" and "military intelligence." If the millennium is 2000 years after Christ's birth and the year 0 never occurred, my math calculations show that the millennium already happened, back in 1997! Those poor Norwegian women don't have to have the longest pregnancy in human history, they have to have a pregnancy with negative duration!
Of course, if one of them succeeds, it would require birth to occur before conception, which would allow for virgin births, which could start a new religion, and we can start counting all over again.
Mark Tibbitts
Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center
|
