4004 BC: World created, per the Chronology established by Archbishop James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, 1625-56. Stephen Jay Gould, no creationist, said:
I shall be defending Ussher's chronology as an honourable effort for its time and arguing that our usual ridicule only records a lamentable small-mindedness based on mistaken use of present criteria to judge a distant and different past
Link.Ussher represented the best of scholarship in his time. He was part of a substantial research tradition, a large community of intellectuals working toward a common goal under an accepted methodology…
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