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statistical analyses displayed in this book have ever been submitted for review in
peer-reviewed journals
I can hardly blame editors who have refused even seeing a first draft of a paper.

I might have decided likewise, have I not known better.

22.6 Conclusions

This study is an attempt to relate in a serious and scientifically rigorous fashion
to two time-scales, whose compatibility with one another had plagued Western
Civilization with endless and often overheated debate for many years. Obviously,

this debate has become ever more heated with recent scientific findings, com-

monly perceived to provide final “victory” to the scientific time-scale over the
biblical time-scale.
The statistical analyses, provided in this chapter, seem to suggest that these two
time-scales are in fact one and the same, with one time-scale derivable from the
other by a simple linear transformation. Furthermore, the latter conclusion is not
shaken by the removal of possibly controversial observations, since the rest of the
observations in the sample, of more reliable nature, still deliver highly statistically
significant results.

How could such different time-scales, derived from two so different modes of
human observation upon the world, be yet so compatible with one another? This
indeed remains a mystery.