The Onion Strikes Again

Certain sectors of the particular layer of the biosphere called The Christian Intellectual Right --that is, the Flat-Earthers who champion the Creationist cause-- have been saying that the Earth was created around 6000 years ago.  The Onion breaks the story from 6000 years back about the reaction of the Sumerians (who were struggling to make a go of things just about then) to God suddenly deciding to create the Heavens and the Earth --well, it must be a sort of re-creation, because what were the Sumerians doing, then, if they hadn't been created?  You can read all about it here: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sumerians_look_on_in_confusion_as

Arch, baffled by the implications.

P.S. I mean, I'd be pretty upset if someone tried to create me when I was busy with something.