We humans like to say it's the year 2000-and-something, 2016 as of this patch note. But life began much later than that. Not to mention there were vast arrays of other creatures long before humans ever existed. Millions of years before any man would walk and talk. We also don't know how old time itself is, we know the universe is roughly 13 billion years old but time must've existed before the big bang, if time did not exist then there would have been no fuel for the fire, sort of speak. The big bang would've needed time to initially occur, the same way an explosive needs time to detonate. A lot of people say the big bang created time because time couldn't exist without matter. This is folly, if the big bang created time then how did the big bang manage to explode in the first place? A reaction so huge and vast and yet not a single second, millisecond, or minute ever existed in it's expense? Ridiculous, utter nonesense, that sounds like medieval thinking to me, to suggest that time didn't exist simply because matter didn't exist... That's like saying the earth is flat because we can't see past the horizon, that's like saying the earth is the center of the universe because the sun and stars move across the sky, that's the exact thinking that goes into saying time didn't exist before the big bang because matter didn't exist... Do you see how absurd that sounds? And how are we so certain that matter didn't exist? So therefore time existed and if time existed then therefore time can be older than the universe and time could've run for trillions and trillions of years into infinity before the big bang ever took place, before the earth formed from it's early molten years, before microbes first swam on earth's surface, before the first plant-life grew from the wasteland, before the first creature walked on it's soil. This could really be the year 2,999,999,432,655,345,234,765,543,876,654,987,543,232,555,765,543,432,655,345,234,765,543,876,654,987,543,232,555,765,543,432,655,345,234,765,543,876,654,987,543,232,555,765,543,432,655,345,234,765,543,876,654,987,543,232,555,765,543,432,655,345,234,765,543,876,654,987,543,232,555,765,543,432,655,345,234,765,543,876,654,987,543,232,555,765,543,432,655,345,234,765,543,876,654,987,543,232,555,765,543,432,655,345,234,765,543,876,654,987,543,232,555,765,543,016 or perhaps even longer than that. I think human knowledge of time is still in it's infancy, it's something we may never fully understand. That's my theory of the age of time. What's yours?