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According to a certain individual, it began at sunset, on Saturday, October 22, in 4004 B.C. What was it, and who was the man who made this calculation?
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#56965. Asked by lanfranco. (Apr 29 05 4:19 PM)
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dejavucub4
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Irish bishop James Ussher stated that creation began at 6:00 P.M. on Saturday Oct.22 4004 B.C..
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lanfranco
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P.S. Has anyone spotted the fatal flaw in Ussher's argument yet?
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kaylofgorons
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That it's based on the Bible?
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lanfranco
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Not at all, but even so, there is a biblical flaw. If Creation began at the moment of sunset (or nightfall, as some accounts of Ussher's argument say), then what is wrong?
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MaggieG 5
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Where did the sun come from to set before it was created?
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lanfranco
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Exactly, Maggie. Take a look at Genesis 1:1-5.
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Arpeggionist
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It says light was created on the first day. There is no mention of sunset before the time of Abraham.
Also, when would you say Creation took place, upon the first sign of creation (the first day) or the completion of the creative process (sunset on the seventh day)?
The real flaw is that Ussher was following the fundamentalist interpretation that the world was created 4,000 years before Jesus was born, which is one of many interpretations of time. The Jewish calendar has the first year of Creation some 240 years later, and even we recognize that the Earth (let alone the sun or the rest of the universe) is far older than that.
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kaylofgorons
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So the most basic problem with his calculations is that he chose to use the word "sunset" for the beginning of the first day. It says evening and morning, nothing about sunset.
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Arpeggionist
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Exactly my point. And a lot of comentators are also very liberal with their definition of the words "evening" and "morning" (the TV guide, after all, has each day start at 6am).
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