( Benoît de Maillet had estimated an age of 2. 4 billion years by 1732 as against the 6, 000 years proposed by Archbishop James Ussher's famous chronology ).

In addition, Skene attributes the " traditional " date of Ninian's death ( 16 September 432 ) ultimately to Ussher's Life of Ninian, noting that the date is " without authority ".

But while calculating the date of the Creation is today in some circles considered a controversial activity, in Ussher's time such a calculation was still regarded as an important task, one previously attempted by many Post-Reformation scholars, such as Joseph Justus Scaliger and physicist Isaac Newton.

Among the Masoretic creation estimates or calculations for the date of creation only Archbishop Ussher's specific chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and popular, mainly because this specific date was attached to the King James Bible.

It was in the pages of the Scofield Reference Bible that many Christians first encountered Archbishop James Ussher's calculation of the date of Creation as 4004 BC ; and through discussion of Scofield's notes, which advocated the " gap theory ," fundamentalists began a serious internal debate about the nature and chronology of creation.

The first page of Genesis was annotated with Ussher's date of Creation, 4004 BC, though in reality, Ussher's Annales is estimated to have relied on the Bible for only one sixth of its volume.

A KJV Bible with Bishop Ussher's date of creation, 4004 BC.

According to Bishop Ussher's 17th century chronology, the antediluvian period lasted for 1648 years, from creation at 4004 BC and the flood at 2348 BC.

When MacEnery reported to the British Association the discovery of flint tools below the stalagmites on the cave floor, his work was derided as contrary to Bishop James Ussher's Biblical chronology dating the Creation to 4004 BC.

), in which he dated the Creation of the world to the year 11, 013 BC and the Flood to 4990 BC, in contradiction to Bishop James Ussher's famous chronology, which placed creation at 4004 BC and the Flood at 2349 BC.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

* 1445 BC — According to James Ussher's chronology, this is when Moses led the Hebrews from Egypt, to the land of Israel.

By the end of the 19th century, Ussher's chronology came under increasing attack from supporters of uniformitarianism, who argued that Ussher's " young Earth " was incompatible with the increasingly accepted view of an Earth much more ancient than Ussher's.

A different viewpoint comes from Stephen Jay Gould, who, while totally disagreeing with Ussher's chronology, nevertheless wrote:

But Ussher's last extra-biblical coordinate was the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, and beyond this point he had to rely on other considerations.

This, however, is a misnomer, as the chronology is based on Ussher's work alone and not that of Lightfoot.

Archbishop Ussher's chronology has in recent years been subject to artistic criticism, including in the play Inherit the Wind ( based on the Scopes Monkey Trial ) and the fantasy novel Good Omens which ironically alleges that " he is off by a quarter of an hour ".

I shall be defending Ussher's chronology as an honourable effort for its time and arguing that our usual ridicule only records a lamentable small-mindedness based on mistaken use of present criteria to judge a distant and different past

In 1862, the Glaswegian physicist William Thomson ( later Lord Kelvin ) published calculations, based on his presumption of uniformitarianism, and that the heat of the sun was caused by its gravitational shrinkage, that fixed the age of the Earth and the solar system at between 20 million and 400 million years, i. e. between ~ 3, 000 and ~ 70, 000 times Ussher's value.

It may be an accident of history that Ussher's chronology remains so well known while those of Scaliger and Bede, amongst others, have slipped into obscurity.

He engaged in extensive disputations with Roman Catholic theologians, and even as a student he challenged a Jesuit relative, Henry Fitzsimon ( Ussher's mother was Catholic ), to dispute publicly the identification of the Pope with the Antichrist.

Ussher's specific choice of starting year may have been influenced by the then-widely-held belief that the Earth'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 " one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day " ().

Bishop Ussher's chronology places Isaac at about 20 years of age.

Ussher's contribution is often disparaged, as he both invented fictitious histories and misquoted legitimate manuscripts to suit his own purposes.

Ussher's younger, and only surviving, brother, Ambrose, became a distinguished scholar of Arabic and Hebrew.

Though Charles severely tested Ussher's loyalty by negotiating with the Catholic Irish patriots, the Primate remained committed to the royal cause, though as king's fortunes waned Ussher had to move on to Bristol, Cardiff, and then to St Donat's.

Ussher's work is sometimes associated with Young Earth Creationism, which holds that the universe was created, not billions of years ago, but thousands.

The full title of Ussher's work is Annales Veteris Testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti, una cum rerum Asiaticarum et Aegyptiacarum chronico, a temporis historici principio usque ad Maccabaicorum initia producto.

Ussher's work was his contribution to the long-running theological debate on the age of the Earth.

The season in which Creation occurred was the subject of considerable theological debate in Ussher's time.

* Pierce, L., 1998 " The forgotten archbishop ", Creation 20 ( 2 ): 42 – 43 ( biography and brief explanation of Ussher's chronology ).

In the event the rupees set aside for loans under Section 104 ( E ) of the Act are not advanced within six years from the date of this Agreement because the Export-Import Bank of Washington has not approved loans or because proposed loans have not been mutually agreeable to the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India, the Government of the United States of America may use the rupees for any purpose authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

Holly proposed marriage to her on their very first date.

A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to 390 – 200 BC has been reported The other broch claimed to be substantially older than the 1st century BC is Crosskirk in Caithness, but a recent review of the evidence suggests that it cannot plausibly be assigned a date earlier than the 1st centuries BC / AD

A new family Bidensoviridae has been proposed for this group but this proposal has not been ratified by the ICTV to date.

However, development of the workstation was well ahead of the PRISM, and the engineers proposed that they release the machines using the MIPS R2000 processor instead, moving its release date up considerably.

Early 58 and early 55 both have some support, while German New Testament scholar Gerd Lüdemann argues for a date as early as 51 / 52 ( or 54 / 55 ) following on from Knox who proposed 53 / 54.

An impression has sometimes arisen that ephemeris time was in use from 1900: this probably arose because ET, though proposed and adopted in the period 1948 – 1952, was defined in detail using formulae that made retrospective use of the epoch date of 1900 January 0 and of Newcomb's Tables of the Sun.

* Scheduled: Part of the change review board's responsibility is to assist in the scheduling of changes by reviewing the proposed implementation date for potential conflicts with other scheduled changes or critical business activities.

Under the proposal, the ICD-9-CM code sets would be replaced with the ICD-10-CM code sets, effective October 1, 2013. On April 17, 2012 the Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) published a proposed rule that would delay, from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014, the compliance date for the ICD-10-CM and PCS.

Simon was highly skeptical of such claims, so proposed a wager, telling Ehrlich to select any raw material he wanted and select " any date more than a year away ," and Simon would bet that the commodity's price on that date would be lower than what it was at the time of the wager.

The island is home to two-thirds of the world's chameleon species, including the smallest one known to date, and researchers have proposed that Madagascar may represent the origin of all chameleon species.

The ICS once proposed that the Quaternary be considered a sub-era ( sub-erathem ) of the Neogene, with a beginning date of 2. 588 Ma, namely the start of the Gelasian Stage.

In his preface to the Prophecies, Nostradamus himself stated that his prophecies extend ' from now to the year 3797 '— an extraordinary date which, given that the preface was written in 1555, may have more than a little to do with the fact that 2242 ( 3797-1555 ) had recently been proposed by his major astrological source Richard Roussat as a possible date for the end of the world.

It was proposed to build enough tractors that each invasion barge could be assigned one or two of them but the late date and difficulties in mass-producing the vehicle prevented implementation of that plan.

The proposed rail project, when completed, was the most intensive and ambitious of its kind ever undertaken to date.

Later, ( Hirst, 2003, p. 427 ) a promised Charter amendment based on Fatah doctrine " that all Jews < nowiki > date restriction </ nowiki >... were to be entitled to Palestinian citizenship " failed due to doctrinal quarrels over the meaning of the precise nature of the proposed Democratic State.

It has been proposed that ubiquitin is the slowest-evolving protein identified to date.

A proposed but as of yet informal third epoch, the Anthropocene, has also gained credence as the time in which humans began to profoundly affect and change the global environment, although its start date is still disputed.

This date is first proposed by John Mair in his Historia Majoris Britanniæ ( 1521 ), and gains popular acceptance by the end of the century.

To date the suggestions proposed have not been broadly accepted because of doubts over the suitability of a single gene to determine the taxonomy of the clade.

Reform of the date of Easter has been proposed several times because the current system for determining the date of Easter is seen as presenting two significant problems: