4 MILLION YEARS AGO

While in the waiting room of an area business, I picked up a National Geographic to pass the time. The front cover featured a four million year old women’s skull. Really? 4 million?? I also read that since the bones in the hand of this person were long, it was evident the gal swung from trees.

I would like to visit with the authors of this article. How do they conclude 4 million years has passed? Do they have calendars that show a continuous chronology of the last 1.5 billion rotations of the earth? And what do they “know” about my Grandfather’s activities (he had huge hands)?

I would ask this author: “Who refueled the sun, and when?” I am sure my question would trigger a perplexed stare. But think about it. The sun is shrinking (several feet per year) as it consumes fuel. If it had been burning for four million years it would have run out of fuel by now, or would have had to have been refueled several times by now, or would have had to of been so large 4 million years ago that it would have burnt this ‘4 million old’ woman to a crisp along with the trees she allegedly was swinging on.

Obviously, this women can’t be anywhere near 4 million years old. Furthermore, if she had been healthy enough to procreate, then by now the world population would be exponentially greater than it is. And if she wasn’t that healthy, then the human race would have gone extinct ages ago.

Excuse me, but I think the person that dreamed up the supposed age of that women has a trait in common with people that gamble – they’re both mathematically challenged. Although on second thought, it seems like I've been waiting 4 million years for my number to come up in this waiting room.