Actual Letter to the Editor in the Economist

"There is an error of fact in your special report. Adam and Eve did not meet '6,003 years ago.' The world was created in 4,004 BC. It may have failed to come to an end after 6,000 years in 1996, but the date of creation never budged. The mother and father of all of us actually met 6,011 years ago. Archbishop Ussher wrote it, I believe it, that settles it." Bud Whitebook, Washington, DC.



I cannot express how much this letter terrifies me. And he lives in my own city, no less.