»Yes, I have to agree. Well, Germany has a special relationship with Israel due to the Holocaust, the extinction of Jews in the Third Reich. And anyway: Martin Luther reformed church in the 16th century with a new understanding of Christianity. The Bible in German was long declared a forbidden book and on the index of the Vatican. The printed works were classified to be the most dangerous media of all Protestant heresy by the church fathers. Johannes Gutenberg made this possible, due to and caused by his invention, the technique, the serial printing of books.«

  »Yes. I know the museum in Mainz. The one with the anagram of Eden is completely nuts. Adam and Eve must have been Neanderthals, lived 100,000 years ago or something?«

  »If you calculate back from today’s population figures, you end up with a single-digit number in around 2300 before Christ. The descendants of Adam through his third son Set are mentioned in Genesis. With the help of this subject’s age, you can deduce that Adam must have lived approximately 6000 years ago. I have to tell you though, what happened 4300 years ago. Right at that time, God had it rain for 40 days and nights.«

  »Sure enough. The flood. Accordingly, Noah is supposed to have been 600 years old.«

  »Only later, the lifespan of humans was reduced to 120 years by God. It is a bit difficult to prove whether someone became any older in those days though.«

  »Wait a minute. But how old is our earth then?«