Johnee Wrote:
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> James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh,
> Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of
> Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in
> his day as a churchman and as a scholar. Of his
> many works, his treatise on chronology has proved
> the most durable. Based on an intricate
> correlation of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean
> histories and Holy writ, it was incorporated into
> an authorized version of the Bible printed in
> 1701, and thus came to be regarded with almost as
> much unquestioning reverence as the Bible itself.
> Having established the first day of creation as
> Sunday 23 October 4004 BC, by the arguments set
> forth in the passage below, Ussher calculated the
> dates of other biblical events, concluding, for
> example, that Adam and Eve were driven from
> Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that
> the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 2348 BC
> `on a Wednesday'.
> — Craig, G. Y. and E. J. Jones. A Geological
> Miscellany. Princeton University Press, 1982.

What does Ussher's 17th century attempt at dating Biblical chronology have to do with anything?

> (snip - material on rcd on the pyramids)

> If all this is accepted then the biblical flood
> occurred during the reign of 'Unas'.

And?




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