Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bu-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bu-cs!ccc From: ccc@bu-cs.UUCP (Cameron Carson) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: What do Creationists believe Message-ID: <216@bu-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 14:17:14 EST Article-I.D.: bu-cs.216 Posted: Fri Mar 8 14:17:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 05:33:11 EST References: <340@tekchips.UUCP> Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 28 >From: jackg@tekchips.UUCP (Jack Gjovaag) >I think that Bishop Ussher decided that the world was created in exactly >six days on October 14th (a Monday) 4004BC. This came from the >family tree information (or data) in Genesis. The date may not >be quoted exactly. I will look it up sometime and we can have >an earthbirthday celebration. In the play _Inherit_the_Wind_, a "docu-drama" based on the Scopes trial, when the Clarence-Darrow character asks when the creation took place, the William-Jennings-Bryan character gives the above information and further pins it down as having begun precisely at 9:00 am. -- Cameron C. Carson Distributed Systems Group Boston University ACC UUCP: ...!harvard!bu-cs!ccc ARPA: ccc%bu-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa