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	James Ussher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1621 he was appointed Bishop of Meath and was elevated to the Archbishopric of Armagh in 1625.
		Ussher engaged in extensive debate with Catholic theologians, and pressed for firm measures to be taken against Irish Catholics.
		Although Ussher produced a considerable number of religious works, his most famous was the Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti ("Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world"), published in 1650.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ussher (662 words)

	Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ussher's work, more properly known as the Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti (Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world), was his contribution to the long-running theological debate on the age of the Earth.
		Ussher's proposed date of 4004 BC was not greatly different from the estimates of the Venerable Bede (3952 BC) or Ussher's near-contemporary, Scaliger (3949 BC).
		Ussher and other biblical scholars were able to achieve a fairly close correspondence between their chronologies, as they used much the same methodology to calculate key events recorded in the Bible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ussher-Lightfoot_Calendar (2199 words)

	Bishop Ussher Dates the World: 4004 BC
		Bishop Ussher Dates the World: 4004 BC James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in his day as a churchman and as a scholar.
		John Lightfoot (1602-1675), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University was a contemporary of Ussher.
		For a more complete account, and a picture of Bishop Ussher, see: From Ussher to Slusher, from Archbish to Gish: or not in a million years..." by Colin Groves.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/ussher.htm (348 words)

	Creation Science, Ussher
		Ussher took a known point in Biblical history, namely, the fall of Jerusalem in 588 B.C. Counting back from there, with the Bible’s genealogies and the known number of years that these people lived, he simply added up the dates to get back to the 4,004 B.C. date for Adam’s birthday.
		Ussher claims that 23 October 4004 BC is the date of the creation of the world.
		While Ussher does add the six 24-hour days for the creation to his calculations, we have ample evidence today to show that the days of creation were long periods of time.
	www.answersincreation.org /ussher.htm (654 words)

	James Ussher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		James Ussher, born and raised in Dublin, Ireland became an important figure in the Christian Church early in his life.
		After counting the “begats” of the Book of Genesis, Ussher came to the conclusion that the universe was created at 9:00 am on the twenty-third of October, 4004 BC.
		In these books, he stated his theory of when the universe was created and the dates and times of other biblical occurrences based on the that theory.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/uvwxyz/ussher_james.html (359 words)

	Published research errors in quoting Bishop Ussher
		The name was Ussher, the dates are wrong, Lightfoot was first, and although Lightfoot calculated from the position of Eden, he didn't define the location.
		Ussher first published in 1650; his calculated date was October 23; and he didn't give a time.
		When Bishop Ussher, an authority on biblical chronology, solemnly announced to his fellow churchmen that God began to forge the heavens and the earth at 2:30 in the afternoon on Sunday, October 23, in the year 4004....
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /texts/ussher/published_errors.html (849 words)

	Srawley Introduction I The Literary Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Archbishop Ussher and Bishop Pearson in the seventeenth century, and Bishop Lightfoot in the nineteenth century.
		Ussher found that the quotations of Ignatius in the works of Grosseteste were taken from the Latin version preserved in these two MSS., and further study led him to believe that Grosseteste was himself the translator.
		Ussher's labours thus enabled students to recognize the genuine epistles of Ignatius, and to separate from these the interpolated portions, as well as the spurious epistles, found in the Longer Form.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /srawley/controversy.html (2051 words)

	Meditation 20 - The Age of the World, the Universe, and Everything. What if Bishop Ussher was wrong? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		First, Bishop Ussher's calculation was based on a rigorous and exhaustive examination of the Bible.
		Simply, Bishop Ussher's work proved to me that the bible was not a document to be taken literally.
		While Ussher is mentioned in passing, it is questionable whether the author actually consulted Ussher's work, because he consistently cannot spell the name correctly.
	www.apatheticagnostic.com /articles/meds/med01/med020.html (1528 words)

	Bishop James Ussher Sets the Date for Creation: October 23, 4004 B.C.
		As a Protestant bishop in a Catholic land, Ussher’s obsession with providing an accurate Biblical history stemmed from a desire to establish the superiority of the scholarship practiced by the clergy of his reformed faith over that of the Jesuits, the resolutely intellectual Roman Catholic order.
		As paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould points out in an essay on Ussher, the bishop’s calculation of the date of Creation fueled much ridicule from scientists who pointed to him as “a symbol of ancient and benighted authoritarianism.” Few geology textbook writers resisted taking a satirical swing at Ussher in their introductions.
		Ussher began his calculation by adding the ages of the twenty-one generations of people of the Hebrew-derived Old Testament, beginning with Adam and Eve.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/ussher.html (2271 words)

	Appendix B-The Forgotten Archbishop
		It was Ussher who in the 1650s put forward the idea that this occurred on October 23, 4004 BC, and this year appeared as a marginal note in many Bibles up until about the mid-20th century.
		James Ussher was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1581.
		Ussher was neither charlatan nor naive; in fact, he was one of the most learned men of his day.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v20/i2/archbishop.asp (2187 words)

	The Biblical Date for Creation
		Bishop James Ussher was able to use the ages of famous pre-flood personages in the Bible to estimate the number of years between creation and the flood.
		Bishop Ussher estimated that it began in 1451 BCE; that is unlikely because Egyptian power was at its peak at that time and completely dominated the area.
		Ussher was briefly bishop of Carlisle in 1642 before moving to Oxford.
	jeromekahn123.tripod.com /oldtestament/id15.html (2358 words)

	Learn more about Estimates of the date of Creation in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		One of the best known estimates in modern times is that of Bishop James Ussher (1581-1656), who proposed a date of Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC, in the Julian calendar.
		It is a common belief that he also gave an exact time of Creation, but this is not found in Ussher's work [1].
		According to Hindu scripture, the universe undergoes endless cycles of creation, existence in four yugas (ages) totalling exactly 4,320,000 years, and dissolution.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /e/es/estimates_of_the_date_of_creation.html (634 words)

	Metanexus Institute
		I remember him today, not because this is his birthday, but because Ussher was the first one to ascribe a birth date to the universe on a human calendar.
		This is what Bishop Ussher did, and he stated with some confidence that the world was created in the year 4004 B.C.E. He was also persuaded that this occurred in the autumnal season (in the Northern hemisphere), in the month of October, and more exactly on the 23 of that month..
		The bishop's work was published in 1658, and gradually the news spread to many countries.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article.asp?7425 (1368 words)

	SWRC Bookstore: Books on Historical Topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Bishop Ussher is noted for being the most accurate chronologist of the Bible and world events from creation to A.D. This work was published in 1658, two years after his death.
		In this unmatched masterpiece, Bishop Ussher records and dates the most important biblical events from the creation to the destruction of Jerusalem.
		Ussher relates both famous accounts and little known incidents in the lives of the famous and infamous including pharaohs, Caesars, kings, conquerors, thieves, pirates, and murderers.
	www.swrc.com /newbookstore/books/history4.htm (177 words)

	Bishop Ussher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		James Ussher (1581-1656), an Irish theologian and scholar, at one time had possibly the largest collection of books in Western Europe.
		During his lifetime he was widely known as a defender of learning, of the value of books secular and sacred, and a proponent of maintaining an independent identity for Irish Protestant faith.
		Using the Book of Genesis, he painstakingly followed the series of "begats" back in time and determined that the universe was created in the year 4004 BC, on October 23.
	ifaq.wap.org /science/ussher.html (135 words)

	Physics 3333 / CFB 3333 Lecture 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Bishop Ussher (1581 - 1656) used a scriptural approach, adding up the "begats" and arriving at the date of 23 October, 4004 BC.
		The time of 9 AM for creation has been wrongly attributed to Ussher; it is due to Sir John Lightfoot, a contemporary of Ussher.
		The latest result from the WMAP satellite probe studied the cosmic microwave background radiati to estimate the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years with an error of 1%.
	www.physics.smu.edu /~jcotton/ph3333/class15.htm (630 words)

	ANNOTATIONS 18(2)
		Although completely rejecting Ussher's conclusions, Gould argues that too many scientists today tend to judge the Bishop unfairly.
		Given the information available at the time, Ussher actually used good methods of scholarship to make his calculations.
		Despite Gould's assurance that Ussher's chronology was hopelessly wrong, the sympathetic treatment of Ussher makes this paper interesting reading, even to those who believe Ussher's chronology to be more accurate than the one accepted by Gould.
	www.grisda.org /origins/18079.htm (1825 words)

	The Case for Creationism
		It was a Protestant Bishop named James Ussher (1581—1656), one of the greatest scholars and theologians of his time, who around 1650 A.D. first insisted that God created the world in 4004 B.C. Science and what we can observe tells us that this statement is incorrect.
		James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, was the Primate of All Ireland.
		Ussher calculated the dates of other biblical events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 2348 BC `on a Wednesday'.
	www.bibleprobe.com /creationism.htm (6506 words)

	Old Testament Chronology -- From the Flood to Abram (Abraham) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Bishop Ussher’s calculation, based on the Bible, the world was created in 4004 B.C. That is 5,998 years ago as of 1994 A.D. The date according to the Hebrew calendar is only 5,754 which means he varies by 244 years.
		Bishop Ussher’s chronology puts the Flood occurring in the year 2348 B.C. One example of the 244 year variation between Archbishop Ussher’s system and the traditional Jewish system, is in Genesis 11:26.
		According to the Seder Olam Rabbah Abram was born in 1948 and thus Ussher calculation would be in 2008 B.C. This still leaves 184 year discrepancy between the two.
	www.mazzaroth.com /ChapterThree/OTChronFloodToAbram.htm (336 words)

	Bishop Ussher Dates the World: 4004 BC
		Bishop Ussher Dates the World: 4004 BC Original: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ussher.htm
		BISHOP USSHER DATES THE WORLD: 4004 BC James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, was highly regarded in his day as a churchman and as a scholar.
		Ussher, _The Annals of the World_ iv (1658) _________ * The material above is from: Craig, G. and E. Jones.
	daveola.com /Pages/World_Birthday_Party/Usshers_Annals.html (290 words)

	Net4TV Voice: The Anniversary of All
		Anglican-Irish Bishop James Ussher of Armagh proclaimed the moment of Creation in 1650, having counted backward through all the Bible's "begats" and estimated the number of generations since Adam.
		Space-time was launched in 4004 B.C. Dr. John Lightfoot, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, used the Ussher figure to announce the exact day and hour of the Earth's Creation: 23 October 4004 B.C. at 9:00 a.m.
		We acquiesced to secular pundits trivializing the thunderous import of Ussher and Lightfoot revelations.
	www.net4tv.com /voice/Story.cfm?storyID=602 (829 words)

	READ: GENESIS 5:1-32 SUBJECT: EARTH 6,000 YRS OLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Archbishop Ussher proposed that the earth came into being in the year 4004 BC.
		Ussher proposed his dates on the basis of how he interpreted the genealogies of Genesis 5/11 along with other significant dating passages (Egpytian/Babylonian captivities etc)
		Tell us that the Book of Genesis is full of poetry and is not to be taken literally.
	www.geocities.com /cfpchurch/howoldearth.html (1034 words)

	Biblical Chronology
		In this way, Bishop Ussher computed that the earth had been created in 4004 BC and that the flood occurred in 2350 BC which was henceforth accepted as the "traditional" biblical date,(though there is rival literal interpretation similarly inspired, setting the date at 2459 BC).
		Although the fundamental premise of the creationist approach emphasized the infallibility of literal reading of the bible, few were as aware as those who hold the bible as a daily guide to their lives that the good book was rife with improbabilities and in some cases outright contradictions.
		Whitcomb and Morris, in one of those necessary departures from literal reading of the scriptures that nonetheless surprise anyone trying to follow their reasoning, concluded that the traditional Ussher flood date of 2450 BC (or its variant of 2459 BC) is probably too recent.
	www-leland.stanford.edu /~meehan/donnelly/bibchron.html (518 words)

	CSICOP / News / Evolutionists Celebrate World's 6000th Birthday.....NOT!
		For more than two centuries the vast majority of Christians accepted the calculation of James Ussher, a seventeenth century bishop, that the Earth was created on October 23, 4004BC.
		Bishop Ussher's claim for the exact day for the "Creation of the World" was based on detailed study of the Old Testament, adding up the life spans of the Patriarchs and the ages at which they "begat" their successors.
		The overwhelming evidence available from scientific fields including geology, biology, paleontology, genetics, anthropology, archaeology and cosmology, reveal that 6000 years ago human civilizations were already flourishing and show the Earth to be at least 4- 5 billion years old.
	www.csicop.org /articles/b-day6000.html (542 words)

	Hasel, G. F. --- Chronogenealogies of Genesis 5 and 11
		Reckoning back from this date by means of Genesis 11, Ussher arrived at this date and at the date of 2349 B.C. for the flood.
		In arriving at this date and at the date of 4004 B.C. for creation, Ussher selected data from the Hebrew text and the Greek Septuagint translation.
		Ussher's date of 4004 B.C. can no longer stand, because there is no sound rationale for the selective use of chronological data from the Hebrew text (MT) and/or the Greek translation (LXX).
	www.grisda.org /origins/07053.htm (6992 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst
		I first came across Bishop Ussher's date about fifteen years ago, in a couple of science books written in the 1920s but reprinted in the thirties as those popular paperbacks you can still pick up for a few dollars secondhand.
		These words were the still-glowing embers of a once blazing debate--a debate that had been running since Ussher's dates first appeared in the Bible in the late seventeenth century, and that, in another form, still rages today.
		Once Ussher's date for the age of the world had been fixed in the pages of the Bible, and science had embarked on its relentless journey of inquiry, then, like a supertanker heading for a reef, collision was inevitable.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook7590.htm (833 words)

	Lloyd Pye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		He was certain that 6,000 years was much too short a time span for any weathering cycle to be completed, but in the late 18th century there was no way to accurately measure geological eras.
		Bishop Ussher’s 6,000 year dogma still held complete sway with ecclesiastics everywhere, but the world’s burgeoning ranks of scientists could see that Hutton and now Lyell were correct; the earth had to be millions of years old rather than 6,000.
		Bishop Ussher’s unyielding time line of 6,000 years was gradually coming to symbolize their willful disdain of reality, like a chain draped around their necks, drowning them as the tide of understanding shifted the sand beneath their feet.
	www.lloydpye.com /A-Darwinism.htm (5481 words)

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