WingNutDaily: Hal Lindsey on Bishop Ussher

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Bishop Ussher's "Annals of the World" begins at the point of creation, which he
determined was Oct. 23, 4004 B.C.

Ussher's arrival at the date of Oct. 23 was determined based on the fact that
most peoples of antiquity, especially the Jews, started their calendar at
harvest time.

Ussher concluded there must be good reason for this, so he chose the first
Sunday following autumnal equinox.

Although the autumnal equinox is Sept. 21 today, that is only because of
historical calendar-juggling to make the years come out right.

In September 1752, 11 days were dropped to bring the calendar back in line with
the seasons. Another day was dropped at the beginning of the 19th and 20th
century for the same reason.

Amazingly, Ussher's calculations, made centuries before these adjustments, are
vindicated by them. Pretty impressive stuff for a guy working by candlelight
centuries before the advent of a calculator.

The reason Ussher's work is so accurate was because he relied solely on
Scripture as his source of information.

Ussher arrived at the date of 4004 B.C. by taking known dates in history, and
calculating backward by using the chronologies of Genesis Chapters 5 and 11 and
working backward. The calculations themselves were so complicated that, in the
original documents, they covered more than 100 pages.

Notes Larry Pierce of the "Online Bible":

Astrogeophysicist Dr John Eddy, who was at the time solar astronomer at the
High Altitude Observatory at Boulder, Colorado, made some revealing comments at
a symposium in 1978, as reported in Geotimes, Vol. 23, September 1978, p. 18.

There is no evidence based solely on solar observations, Eddy stated, that
the Sun is 4.5-5 x 109 years old. "I suspect," he said, "that the Sun is
4.5-billion years old. However, given some new and unexpected results to the
contrary, and some time for frantic recalculation and theoretical readjustment,
I suspect that we could live with Bishop Ussher's value for the age of the
Earth and Sun. I don't think we have much in the way of observational evidence
in astronomy to conflict with that."
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