Where did the 4004 BC(E) date come from that Creationists claim was the beginning of it all??

Question

I saw something on this in "Frauds, Myths and Mysteries" but I didn't get the "why" for that particular time being chosen. The book is by Kenneth L. Feder.

Answer 1

They traced back the biblical lineage of generations. But since they did not run completely linearly, it is basically an educated guess.

Obviously we know that date is not accurate based on the evolutionary evidence we now have.

Answer 2

Have you not read your bible, you uneducated heathen!

You just add up the births and deaths. There's a few people lived to 9 hundred and something, which is of course completely plausible. Then add on the AD bit.

So it has to be totally true, doesn't it. Even if prehistoric remains in even the UK predate it.

Answer 3

Someone aded up all the "Begats" in the bible, and came up with 4004 BC as a birth date for the Earth and that is a NO SH*TTER.

Answer 4

As stargazergurl22 says, Bishop Ussher added up all the begats, tried his best at addition, and came up with that year. He must have figured that an educated guess was better than saying he did not understand how to add begats.

Answer 5

Creationism has been proven to be false too many times already. There are tons of proof that life existed on this Earth long before then and not one iota of proof in creationism. Let these boobs believe what they want, you cant convince someone who still has stoneaged intelligence!

Answer 6

I thought it was Augustine, but evidently this date was calculated by Archbishop James Ussher, the Prelate of Ireland, circa 1650. The story goes that he calculated the age of the Earth from the generations of the Patriarchs Mysteriously, the calculations themselves seem to have been lost or suppressed.