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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: What do Creationists believe
Message-ID: <361@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 14:05:00 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.361
Posted: Mon Mar 11 14:05:00 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Mar-85 03:38:10 EST
References: <340@tekchips.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Summary: 

In article <340@tekchips.UUCP> jackg@tekchips.UUCP (Jack Gjovaag) writes:
>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.

	Very interesting, except that even *assuming* that the
"begats" list *every* generation in unbroken sequence, and the
times can be accepted as true -- Bishop Ussher was *still* wrong,
he made several arithmetic and textual errors which invalidate his
conclusion, on *biblical* grounds alone!
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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