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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: What do Creationists believe
Message-ID: <785@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 11:05:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 11:05:46 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.
> 
> [Cameron C. Carson]
> 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.

Perhaps he said it in the play.  The more relevant question is
(perhaps) whether he said it in the *trial*.  ITW is not, I
believe, the exemplar of documentary accuracy.

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