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I had thought it was around 4000BC. However, after a quick googling I came across one that said ~2000BC. I took it to mean that what I remembered as 4000BC was supposed to be 4000 years ago.

Here's some on the 2000 BC range.
The year given for the Flood is the 600th year of Noah's life (Gen. 7:11), which, according to adding up the ages of the patriarchs should be about 1,656 years after the Beginning of Mortality, or about 2345 BC
http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2 003/deluge.html
http://www.spiritrestoration.org/Church/Research%2 0History%20and%20Great%20Links/Old%20Testament%20T imeline.htm

Here's one that places it at ~3500BC
http://www.templemount.org/earlytm.html

I'm not a scholar on the subject, just trying to point out that is has been a really long time since the words were written. Alhtough, I'd also like to find out how they plan on asking since no one speaks sandscrit/cuneiform anymore (or whatever language was used back then). We may be able to read it, but I don't think anyone actually speaks it.

Not like a fusion plant, that has all those problems radioactive waste is generating. (And the waste from fusion plants is not even useable for building ammunition like the uran is)

You are mistaking fusion with fission. Nuclear fission (breaking apart) is what we use now in the power plants. Nuclear fusion (coming together) is what we are experimenting with and are just getting to work for very short times in experiential reactors. Fusion takes 2 small atoms like H and He and forces them together. It does not use highly radioactive fuel (U-23x), nor does it produce waste with a 10,000 year half life.

Also, weapons can be made from the depleted U from fission plants. They put it in the tip of tank shells because we can't make it fly any faster so we make it heaver. (U is around 10% heaver than Pb). It will not work for a nuclear weapon, but it can be refined and converted into stuff the that can make one.

Not like a fusion plant, that has all those problems radioactive waste is generating. (And the waste from fusion plants is not even useable for building ammunition like the uran is)

You are mistaking fusion with fission. Nuclear fission (breaking apart) is what we use now in the power plants. Nuclear fusion (coming together) is what we are experimenting with and are just getting to work for very short times in experiential reactors. Fusion takes 2 small atoms like H and He and forces them together. It does not use highly radioactive fuel (U-23x), nor does it produce waste with a 10,000 year half life.

Also, weapons can be made from the depleted U from fission plants. They put it in the tip of tank shells because we can't make it fly any faster so we make it heaver. (U is around 10% heaver than Pb). It will not work for a nuclear weapon, but it can be refined and converted into stuff the that can make one.

Not like a fusion plant, that has all those problems radioactive waste is generating. (And the waste from fusion plants is not even useable for building ammunition like the uran is)

You are mistaking fusion with fission. Nuclear fission (breaking apart) is what we use now in the power plants. Nuclear fusion (coming together) is what we are experimenting with and are just getting to work for very short times in experiential reactors. Fusion takes 2 small atoms like H and He and forces them together. It does not use highly radioactive fuel (U-23x), nor does it produce waste with a 10,000 year half life.

Also, weapons can be made from the depleted U from fission plants. They put it in the tip of tank shells because we can't make it fly any faster so we make it heaver. (U is around 10% heaver than Pb). It will not work for a nuclear weapon, but it can be refined and converted into stuff the that can make one.

Not like a fusion plant, that has all those problems radioactive waste is generating. (And the waste from fusion plants is not even useable for building ammunition like the uran is)

You are mistaking fusion with fission. Nuclear fission (breaking apart) is what we use now in the power plants. Nuclear fusion (coming together) is what we are experimenting with and are just getting to work for very short times in experiential reactors. Fusion takes 2 small atoms like H and He and forces them together. It does not use highly radioactive fuel (U-23x), nor does it produce waste with a 10,000 year half life.

Also, weapons can be made from the depleted U from fission plants. They put it in the tip of tank shells because we can't make it fly any faster so we make it heaver. (U is around 10% heaver than Pb). It will not work for a nuclear weapon, but it can be refined and converted into stuff the that can make one.

Not like a fusion plant, that has all those problems radioactive waste is generating. (And the waste from fusion plants is not even useable for building ammunition like the uran is)

You are mistaking fusion with fission. Nuclear fission (breaking apart) is what we use now in the power plants. Nuclear fusion (coming together) is what we are experimenting with and are just getting to work for very short times in experiential reactors. Fusion takes 2 small atoms like H and He and forces them together. It does not use highly radioactive fuel (U-23x), nor does it produce waste with a 10,000 year half life.

Also, weapons can be made from the depleted U from fission plants. They put it in the tip of tank shells because we can't make it fly any faster so we make it heaver. (U is around 10% heaver than Pb). It will not work for a nuclear weapon, but it can be refined and converted into stuff the that can make one.

Your argument sounds like

"why waste precious use of mental resources by making students multiply and divide instead of handing them over calculaters ?"

There arent many who subscribe to the iceberg theory that you have mentioned. Memory is just like any other muscle - train it , keep it sharp and it will help you. Knowing to memorize something like the periodic table after all involves knowing what exactly helps your brain remember things - for some it might be a rhyme like the haiku and for others it could be pictures for association . Either way, it helps develop a skill!