I'm (belatedly) forwarding this message from Mark Brader, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Mark Brader [mailto:msb@vex.net] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 4:17 To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Subject: Inherit the Wind Please forward this to the TZ list. I am not on the list; any replies should be directed accordingly. Here's an item for tz-art.htm: an exchange from the play "Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (filmed in 1960 with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as Brady, and several other times): BRADY A fine biblical scholar, Bishop Usher, has determined for us the exact date and hour of the Creation. It occurred in the year 4004 B.C. DRUMMOND That's Bishop Usher's opinion. BRADY It's not an opinion. It is literal fact, which the good Bishop arrived at through careful computation of the ages of the prophets as set down in the Old Testament. In fact, he determined that the Lord began the Creation on the 23rd of October in the Year 4004 B.C. at -- uh, at 9 A.M.! DRUMMOND That Eastern Standard Time? (Laughter) Or Rocky Mountain Time? (More laughter) It wasn't daylight-saving time, was it? Because the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day! BRADY (Fidgeting) That is correct. DRUMMOND (Sharply) The first day. Was it a twenty-four-hour day? BRADY The Bible says it was a day. DRUMMOND There wasn't any sun. How do you know how long it was? BRADY (Determined) The Bible says it was a day. DRUMMOND A normal day, a literal day, a twenty-four-hour day? After a few more lines, Brady admits he doesn't know, and Drummond suggests that that "day" could have been 10 million years. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | In the affairs of this world men are saved, msb@vex.net | not by faith, but by the want of it. --Franklin