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Post subject: October 23, 4004 BC: World Created
 Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 05:39 AM
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All day long, I've been trying to figure out why today's date rings a bell. It just hit me. There was a 19th c. Reverend who calculated the age of the Earth by counting back from all the begats in the Bible. He came up with 4004 BC as the year of the creation. Somehow he got a date, too: Oct. 23. I heard at one time this is when the term starts at Cambridge University, so maybe that had something to do with it. But, there ya go.
So for any fundamentalist creationists of the 19t century variety on the BBS tonight: Happy Birthday, World!
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 06:28 AM
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| Jeez, you'd think He'd have started on New Year's Day, or maybe Christmas Day, wouldn't you? I suppose that feller figured in the discrepancies involved in having to switch from Gregorian years to Julian years at the appropriate point... |
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 07:31 AM
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 03:15 PM
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The nearest I can tell, 4004BC wasn't when the earth was created. It was when Adam was created. You can't determine the age of the earth from people begating. Only the age of the people.IMHO.
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 03:25 PM
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| Is it not enough that it was created and we are here on it? |
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 03:27 PM
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| joains wrote: | | Is it not enough that it was created and we are here on it? |
It is for me.
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 03:32 PM
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| Dave wrote: | The nearest I can tell, 4004BC wasn't when the earth was created. It was when Adam was created. You can't determine the age of the earth from people begating. Only the age of the people.IMHO.
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True. My oversimplification. There are some references to kings' reigns relative to Creation that were also used.
Joains--sure, if that's what you believe.
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 03:35 PM
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| *diane* wrote: | | Dave wrote: | The nearest I can tell, 4004BC wasn't when the earth was created. It was when Adam was created. You can't determine the age of the earth from people begating. Only the age of the people.IMHO.
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True. My oversimplification. There are some references to kings' reigns relative to Creation that were also used.
Joains--sure, if that's what you believe.
Diane |
OMG!! Only a dozen posts, and Diane has agreed with me.
"Can I stand the strain?"
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 03:41 PM
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| Dave wrote: | | *diane* wrote: | | Dave wrote: | The nearest I can tell, 4004BC wasn't when the earth was created. It was when Adam was created. You can't determine the age of the earth from people begating. Only the age of the people.IMHO.
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True. My oversimplification. There are some references to kings' reigns relative to Creation that were also used.
Joains--sure, if that's what you believe.
Diane |
OMG!! Only a dozen posts, and Diane has agreed with me.
"Can I stand the strain?"
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I am sure you will adjust to it. |
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 06:57 PM
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| Dave wrote: | The nearest I can tell, 4004BC wasn't when the earth was created. It was when Adam was created. You can't determine the age of the earth from people begating. Only the age of the people.IMHO.
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 Bishop Usher undoubtably added, or subtracted rather, the 5 days preceeding Adam's creation to fix his October 23rd date. However, he assumed a whole lot about human generations and procreation, and ignored a whole lot about geology. |
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 06:59 PM
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| b.b. wrote: | | Dave wrote: | The nearest I can tell, 4004BC wasn't when the earth was created. It was when Adam was created. You can't determine the age of the earth from people begating. Only the age of the people.IMHO.
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Bishop Usher undoubtably added, or subtracted rather, the 5 days preceeding Adam's creation to fix his October 23rd date. However, he assumed a whole lot about human generations and procreation, and ignored a whole lot about geology. |
Wonder if it was before, or after breakfast. 
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 07:12 PM
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| after breakfast, before offerings... |
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Posted: Oct 24, 2002 - 07:15 PM
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| joains wrote: | | after breakfast, before offerings... |
Makes sense. Can't have offerings until people are created.
My bad. 
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