How Chronologists Moved From Ancient Text To Ancient Earth
Poor James Ussher (1581 – 1656), the Archbishop of Armagh, has long been a laughingstock for dating the creation of the world to 6 pm on the 22nd of October 4004 B.C. But, as a new book points out--he wasn't the only 17th-century scholar preoccupied with a world timeline that went down to the …
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