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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
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 14:17:14 1985
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>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

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