"You got 10 fingers, Gene. Which finger is 0?"
I have a very good friend in KY who has 2 thumbs on one hand. We always called him "Zero Thumb." I will use him when I count fiingers.

"(In the beginning) if there was no such thing as a calendar and Adam wanted to start one, what would he call the first year?"

How did we get all the way back to Adam? What happened to old Dion in the 16th century, who by the way started to count his way, after 1600 years and no witnesses?
If we are going to start at "The Beginning" we need to go back a tad further than Adam. I wonder how the ameobas counted? How did cave man count? I can see it now, a Other Lawyer cave man and a chicken plucker cave man, sitting around arguing about when some BC millennium will officialy start.

Geez, this thread has all kinds of possibilities. I bet it does not end before the new millennium starts in about 61 hours.