{"id":6010,"date":"2010-10-23T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2010-10-23T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T14:55:17","slug":"happy-creation-day-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/happy-creation-day-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Creation Day, Earth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Myrick linked to the relevant <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Ussher_chronology\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> to mark the 6013th &#8220;birthday&#8221; of the Earth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[James] Ussher [Anglican Archbishop of Armagh] deduced that the first day of creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC, in the proleptic Julian calendar, near the autumnal equinox. [. . .] Ussher&#8217;s proposed date of 4004 BC differed somewhat from other Biblically based estimates, such as those of Bede (3952 BC), Ussher&#8217;s near-contemporary Scaliger (3949 BC), Johannes Kepler (3992 BC) or Sir Isaac Newton (c. 4000 BC). Ussher&#8217;s specific choice of starting year may have been influenced by the then-widely-held belief that the Earth&#8217;s potential duration was 6,000 years (4,000 before the birth of Christ and 2,000 after), corresponding to the six days of Creation, on the grounds that &#8220;one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day&#8221; (2 Peter 3:8).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Myrick linked to the relevant Wikipedia entry to mark the 6013th &#8220;birthday&#8221; of the Earth. [James] Ussher [Anglican Archbishop of Armagh] deduced that the first day of creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC, in the proleptic Julian calendar, near the autumnal equinox. [. . .] Ussher&#8217;s proposed date of 4004 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,57,11],"tags":[52,360],"class_list":["post-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humour","category-religion","tag-absurd","tag-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1yW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}