How many times has God twiddled his thumbs before he put vertebrates on the Earth?
The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. This is the closest guess anyone has been able to come up with. If one breaks all this macro-scale of time down into one 12 hour “midnight til noon” session we get the following timeline: 0:00 – Creation of Earth 4:30 – First blue-green microbes 9:00 – First unicellular algae 10:30 – First multicellular animals 11:00 – First vertebrates 11:30 – First mammals 30 secs to 12:00 – First man 1/2 second to 12:00 – First modern man Now, here is where calculations get tricky. I started by timing myself since man was created in the image of God, and found that a normal twiddling of my thumbs occurs at the rate of 2 complete twiddles per second. This was neither an uncomfortable nor compromising pace. It was simply satisfying and relaxing. Next, you take 11/12 (eleven-twelfths) of the 4.5 billion years of the creation of Earth since that would correspond to the amount of time that had elapsed since vertebrates had evolved. You in turn multiply that number by t
