Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has shocked the scientific world with her recent announcement that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

The announcement has been met with disbelief from scientific experts, who maintain the Earth is in fact over 4.5 billion years old. However, AOC insists her calculation is not only accurate, but that she is the first person to arrive at this understanding. "I'm not sure how I'm the first person to figure this out, but if you look at the data, it's very obvious that the Earth is only 6,000 years old," she said. AOC claims her interpretation is based largely on extrapolating from biblical genealogies. "It's pretty simple, when you look at it in context," she said. "So once I worked it out, I knew I was onto something big."