57:0.2 When referring to an [[event]] as of one or two millions of years ago, we [[intend]] to date such an occurrence back that number of years from the early decades of the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century] of the [[Christian]] era. We will thus depict these far-distant [[events]] as occurring in even periods of thousands, millions, and billions of years. | 57:0.2 When referring to an [[event]] as of one or two millions of years ago, we [[intend]] to date such an occurrence back that number of years from the early decades of the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century] of the [[Christian]] era. We will thus depict these far-distant [[events]] as occurring in even periods of thousands, millions, and billions of years. |