There are twelve Federal Reserve Districts in the United States. Number 1 is in Boston and covers the New England states, while number 12 is in San Francisco and covers the Western states, including Alaska and Hawaii. Source(s): http://www.federalreserve.gov/otherfrb.h... Sailinlove Â· 1 decade ago.
Layers in glaciers show a history much longer than 10,000 years, and radiometric dating places the formation of the Earth at 4.5 billion years. Light from galaxies is reaching us billions of years after it left, and the expansion rate of the universe dates its age to 13.7 billion years.
The age of the earth is one of the most contentious issues in the creation/evolution debate. Even James Ussher (1581-1656), the famous and respected Archbishop of Ireland in the seventeenth century, is today greatly ridiculed for declaring that the world was created in 4004 BC.