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Happy birthday to THE EARTH! 23rd October is the 1st day of creation for most biblical Creationists.
God said γενηθήτω φῶς - let there be light - exactly 6023 years ago, according the chronology of Bishop Ussher. Though absurd, it is not without interest. A thread: 1/n
God said γενηθήτω φῶς - let there be light - exactly 6023 years ago, according the chronology of Bishop Ussher. Though absurd, it is not without interest. A thread: 1/n
Ussher, a 17thC Primate of All Ireland, worked the date out in Annales Veteris Testamenti via a literal reading of the Bible. It was a major concern of theologians at the time (including Bede and Kepler), many also came up with a similar sort of number, around 6-7kya. 2/n
This is absurd cos we know now that the Earth is more like 4.54 billion years old (see below). At the time of Ussher’s date of creation, agriculture was blossoming, ploughs in Europe, maize cultivated in the Americas, copper forged in Egypt, pastoralism in Africa. 3/n
