Let's get absurd with time
Gathered from the wik:
Philip Henry Gosse, a 19th century naturalist, attempting to reconcile the conflicting takes on the earth's age (Biblical and geological) posited that God created the world AS IF the teachings of geology were true.
Gosse, however, pointed out that life ran in cycles: birth and death and birth again; rain to river to ocean to cloud to rain. Chicken from egg, egg from chicken. If one assumed a creation from nothing, there must always be traces of previous existence that never actually existed, otherwise certain things would not work. The name Omphalos hearkened back to the earlier Christian debate over Adam's navel, the existence of which would have implied his non-existent birth from a non-existent mother - Omphalos being Greek for "navel". Gosse compiled several hundred pages of examples of similar thoughts, then tied it all together by stating that when creation occurred, apparent records of events occurring that actually did not occur - he called them "prochronic", meaning "outside time" - must have been rife throughout the world. Was it not reasonable to argue that fossils and geologic strata and so on were merely prochronic artifacts of a non-existent time pre-dating the actual Creation? This idea became known as the Omphalos hypothesis.
Gosse's theory was unsatisfactory to both sides of the debate, and his book was savaged by critics on both ends of the spectrum.
Then we have Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko's New Chronology:
The "New Chronology" is radically shorter than the conventional chronology, because all of ancient Greek/Roman/Egyptian history is "folded" onto the Middle Ages, and Antiquity and the Dark Ages are eliminated. According to Fomenko, the history of humankind goes only as far as AD800, we have almost no information about events between AD 800-1000, and most historical events we know took place in AD 1000-1500. These views are entirely rejected by mainstream scholarship.
I suggest you read the article because it gets too weird to explain here.
What great ideas!
Philip Henry Gosse, a 19th century naturalist, attempting to reconcile the conflicting takes on the earth's age (Biblical and geological) posited that God created the world AS IF the teachings of geology were true.
Gosse, however, pointed out that life ran in cycles: birth and death and birth again; rain to river to ocean to cloud to rain. Chicken from egg, egg from chicken. If one assumed a creation from nothing, there must always be traces of previous existence that never actually existed, otherwise certain things would not work. The name Omphalos hearkened back to the earlier Christian debate over Adam's navel, the existence of which would have implied his non-existent birth from a non-existent mother - Omphalos being Greek for "navel". Gosse compiled several hundred pages of examples of similar thoughts, then tied it all together by stating that when creation occurred, apparent records of events occurring that actually did not occur - he called them "prochronic", meaning "outside time" - must have been rife throughout the world. Was it not reasonable to argue that fossils and geologic strata and so on were merely prochronic artifacts of a non-existent time pre-dating the actual Creation? This idea became known as the Omphalos hypothesis.
Gosse's theory was unsatisfactory to both sides of the debate, and his book was savaged by critics on both ends of the spectrum.
Then we have Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko's New Chronology:
The "New Chronology" is radically shorter than the conventional chronology, because all of ancient Greek/Roman/Egyptian history is "folded" onto the Middle Ages, and Antiquity and the Dark Ages are eliminated. According to Fomenko, the history of humankind goes only as far as AD800, we have almost no information about events between AD 800-1000, and most historical events we know took place in AD 1000-1500. These views are entirely rejected by mainstream scholarship.
I suggest you read the article because it gets too weird to explain here.
What great ideas!