According to James Ussher, the venerable 17th century Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr John Lightfoot of Cambridge, it was at exactly 9:00 a.m. on the chilly autumn morning of October 23, 4004 BC, that God created the world.
9:00 A.M. on a Tuesday – exactly? (Where didn’t appear to enter into their consideration.) This strikes me as monumental. If the world was created at 9:00 AM Greenwich Time, it would have been 5:00 AM Eastern Time, meaning the world was technically created earlier in the Old World than it was in the New. What’s worse, Hawaii, the Midway Islands, Samoa, and other points west would have been created the day before.
It’s conceivable, I suppose, that Ussher and Lightfoot (which sounds like either a rock group, law firm, or television action series) could have been mistaken in their calculations, but if we start questioning men of God, where will it end? Sooner or later we’ll start questioning God himself, which couldn’t possibly lead anywhere good. No, it’s either blind obedience to God or the Hell with us all.
Just ask ISIS.<
Anyway, this would make this old earth just 6017 years old on October 23 (according to Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum and others.)
But then again, the voice of reason keeps rearing it’s ugly head.
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