James Ussher

Then Petivius, a Jesuit in 1627, he finished the system and made before Christ.

Dating popular, then in 1650, Archbishop Usher dated creation to 4004 BC.

So the whole skeleton of ancient history was built in about 70 years, folks, by a few scholars in the middle of the Reformation Wars.

Fomenko says that's the part that's fake.

They come out of the Puritan movement, which is confessional.

Confessional, first of all, with the 39 articles of the Anglican Church, and then things like the Irish articles of 1615 that was drawn up by a committee around James Usher.

And then the pressing need that was beginning to be felt in the 1640s for a new confession, which would crystallize the Puritan concerns.

And that would become the Westminster.

We get that.

There's some disagreement on whether Israel's exile in Egypt extended to 215 years or 430 years, but either way, it would've put creation somewhere around 4004 BC, that's James Ussher's, uh, chronology-

Mm-hmm

... or 42, 4219, which is, uh, which would've been the 430 years exile in Egypt.

I think we're running about 6,029 years, 6,030 years.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, 6,030 years per the, uh, uh, the chronology provided by James Ussher.

Okay, so- But notably, he's still working with a young earth ... yeah, I don't know if it's the end of the earth in the next- Yeah ... uh, two years or whatever, but, uh, that was his best guess.

So I don't think we can afford to release what we have learned, and I think there would be implications for religion.

I mean, look, Bishop Usher in the 16th century, I guess it was, figured out he was a sex fiend.

He looked at all the bigots in the Bible and worked backwards and concluded that it all began 4004 B.C.

I don't know whether he said it was a Thursday afternoon, but anyway...

As a result, the influence of environment is often overestimated and overstated at the expense of heredity.

The question of race has been further complicated by the effort of old-fashioned theologians to cramp all mankind into the scant 6,000 years of Hebrew chronology as expounded by Archbishop Usher.

Religious teachers have also maintained the proposition not only that man is something fundamentally distinct from other living creatures, but that there are no inherited differences in humanity that cannot be obliterated by education and environment.

It is therefore necessary at the outset for the reader to appreciate thoroughly that race, language, and nationality are three separate and distinct things and that in Europe these three elements are found only occasionally persisting in combination as in the Scandinavian nations.

We're coastal elite liberal academia.

We only go by, notice, isn't it funny though that 6,000 years happens to fit 6,000 year young earth creationists, even though they're supposedly hate creationists, right? In 4004 BC, Bishop Usher, the world begins.

He went back with the patriarchs.

Isn't that kind of funny how the mainstream kind of tends to favor mainstream left liberal dialectical atheist archaeologists seem to agree on a date that agrees with young earth creationists.

And okay, so my premise being here, we make up a lot of stories about what has happened in the past, but the past that we actually know in detail is with like narrative and names and political systems and such something other than just the stuff that they left is only a few thousand years.

It might as well be, you know, biblical time from creation, Bishop Usher saying it was 6,000 years BC.

Cause that's basically what we know in historical terms.

So it's rare.

So there's no way if we look at it from that standpoint, there's no way to assign a date to when creation took place.

According to James Usher, it was 404 B.C. because he looked at the genealogies in Genesis.

Well, that's my point.

Yeah,