Glad we survived the rapture yesterday so we could all enjoy today's anniverary of the when it all began.

When religious belief meets up with scientific knowledge, this is what you get.

@ Larry
I thought this is what happens when religion pretends to be science.

How did creation start at nightfall, when night and day hadn't been separated yet?

Praise the Lord!!

Really? That's pretty arbitrary. This is why religion is nothing but a joke. Think for yourselves, kids!

FR: Not arbitrary at all. Ussher's calculation involved a tremendous amount of Biblical scholarship. The man was no dummy. And there wasn't much science around in 1650 to support an "13.7-billion-year-old-universe" argument. He may have been wrong, but he wasn't a dope.

Also, we tried to reach Ussher for comment, but all he could say was "Yeah!" and go back to producing music by St. Justin of Bieber...

*rimshot*

"And the Earth became without form and void..." which means stuff happened before "[Re-] Creation".

He couldn't know. He was Catholic.

FR: Actually, he was Archbishop of Armagh, the Anglican Church of Ireland.

So a weather man used a history lesson to impart some sort of snark. The book Ussher used has no proof of authorship and has so many inconsistencies as to be useless for anything but the faithful who can ignore the mistakes. I'll stick with radioactive decay as a measure of age over a book written and edited by man.

FR: No snark intended. Just trying to put the man's efforts into the context of his times.

I still enjoy the fact that people who have o scientific background still pretend they think that humans have knowledge of how old something is based on carbon dating. Truthfully our dating is based on what humans think something should be. The truth is that there is no scientific way to date something.

Religion at least has basis for a date. I don't see science coming up with written knowledge from the first humans as to the age of the world. We just sit back and believe what someone made up. Yeah some human came up with how we date things... human.

@Tyler, yes, you put it much better than I did! Well said.

Does Ussher's (or yours) anniversary take into account the Julian/Gregorian transition?

FR: The dates are described as "according to the proleptic Julian Calendar." I'm not sure I've mastered that concept, but I suspect it skews my count of the year's since Ussher's "Creation." I'll let smarter people than I work that out.

We're any of you there? (in the beginning of the world.) no, so any argument any of you have is futile.

FR: I wasn't there during World War II either. But there is plenty of objective evidence that it happened. Nor was I there when Wilbur and Orville got airborne, but I still believe the plane I'm strapped into will fly. If we rejected all the science and learning on which our society is built because we weren't there when events occurred and discoveries were made, we would be in a sorry state.