Time
I was just looking at a calendar and thought to myself: Time is so arbitrary.
I know this seems like a DUH moment, but it kind of isn't. I guess it is kind of a knowledge issue. My example lies in the Bible (I don't intend to offend anybody).
So here's my first example: God created the Earth in seven days. Now, you could argue that it truly was seven days (by how we count a day now); however, I think it is more plausible that the Earth was created over the span of many thousands of years (days were just measured differently back then).
I'm not trying to challenge what you believe and such, but I think it is very clear that how we count time has changed. We have made other accommodations for time (a.k.a daylight savings time).
My second example: some people in the Bible lived over 500 years. Now we all know that there is no way a body could sustain itself for more than 500 years. However, it could be argued that through God, these people were able to live for a very long time. To me, it seems more likely that a year was simply measured differently.
You could not believe in Christianity and that is totally okay with me. If that is the case, you can void those two examples and make a different argument, but I'm just using something that was easy for me to think of (being a Christian, literally).
Plus, who decided that a day consists of 24 hours, an hour of 60 minutes, and a minute of 60 seconds? That's kind of rhetorical because I know the answer (I think), but I hope that you see my viewpoint.
PS - The answer to that question would be astronomers/scientists, I would assume. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I think it was a Mesopotamian culture that used 60's as a unit of measurement. That's why a circle is 360 degrees. How this connects with time is a mystery to me. The year/day thing makes sense, that a year is when the Earth rotates 365.25 times, which is the number of times it rotates while it orbits the sun.
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