James Ussher
"James Ussher (or Usher; 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific scholar and church leader, who today is most famous for his chronology that sought to establish the time and date of the creation as "the entrance of the night preceding the 23rd day of October... the year before Christ 4004"; that is, around 6 pm on 22 October 4004 BC according to the proleptic Julian calendar."
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Ussher was a brilliant man, and he was able to solve all of the temporal mysteries of Yehova’s creation to a high degree of accuracy considering the tools he had to work with.
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The belief that Bishop Ussher could establish an hour, day and year for creation is a sign of how bad our school systems have become. My recollection is that his calculation was based on the number and ages of the “begats” in the Bible. Since no days, hours, or years were given for the begats, it is mathematically IMPOSSIBLE to establish a “correct” time and date for creation. One can only establish an “estimated” time for that event, give or take a certain number of years. Of course in 1656 a lot less was known about statistics and estimating. Now that statistics is a clearly established mathematical science it is an insult to God to continue using an absurd time line which limits the magnificence of God’s creation. It also smacks of “fake news” to use such mathematically imprecise data to establish a precise date. Mathematics as a science has a level of precision that is in a different league than climate science, sociology, and other “soft sciences.”