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There are actually 38 shelves of books each of approximately 1 metre long.
On the first shelf I've catalogued there are 81 books. Now this is a section of poetry, and many volumes are slim. but it is not completely doubled as many of my shelves are. However, the nature and duration of this task is becoming apparent . If the other shelves average 60 books (not unlikely) I have some 2200 books in my study alone. This is going to take years.

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For some reason or other this makes me happy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070526/sc_nm/usa_museum_dc_2;_ylt=Ai8RCQ2ge90mxOTtjIyqq8GEDvII


At least the lines are being drawn and now we all know where we stand.
The non-rational can no longer use Gödel's incompleteness I & II as an excuse.
There is just no way that in an universal flood, a representative breeding pair of every known species in the world could have fitted onto a small boat the dimensions of which are laid out in Genesis. (450ft long with a gross volume of some 1.5 million feet, considerably less than required to have repopulated the world with reasonable genetic diversity after the deluge.) One also wonders how the exotic species that exist only in locations hugely distant from the ark could have made a journey across oceans and continents. How do the wombats manage to travel to get into the Ark? Or the Koalas, or the Possums. Never mind. I'm not entirely certain that specimens of every land based arthropod could be fitted into such a small space, but...I'm sure someone will prove me wrong.