[Publius Valerius]

"It's not that we think Archbishop Ussher's date was a fraud," said Ted Nield, the society's communications officer. "It's just that it was spectacularly wrong."

Heh.

[GallopingGhost]

Why do I get the feeling this is the start of a really long thread?

[Dallas59]

Modern day scientists are never wrong?

[starfish923]

Ah, British science does it again.

WAY too much government funding.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I wonder if he included the day that Joshua asked the Lord to keep the sun from setting.

[Alex Murphy]

Happy Birthday Universe!

[Oztrich Boy]

Dr Nield conceded, too, ... The real anniversary passed unnoticed, in 1997.

I noticed it, back then.

[Non-Sequitur]

Is my math off or wouldn't the earth be 6008 years old?

[Raycpa]

Compared to enternity the age of unviverse is one breath from God.

[RadioAstronomer]

Britain's geologists are about to celebrate the fact that the universe is exactly 6,000 years old.

Huh? 4004 + 2004 = 6007 (minus the zero year). Good grief.

However, I think the time scale may be just a wee bit off. 12 billion years old is a little closer to the mark.

[AMHN]

Funny thing about how little science really knows, String theorists can tell you that it is equally valid that the universe is the as big as 13 billion light years in diameter, or no bigger than the size of a single proton. Yet, theology speculation is just spectacularly wrong. It is amazing however, whether you believe in God or in Science...Faith exists in either a Supreme Being or a virtual particle. For me, I'll choose the Supreme Being over the virtual particle any day and question everything else in-between.

[dfwgator]

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

[HenryLeeII]

Working from the book of Genesis, and risking some speculation on the Hebrew calendar, he calculated that it began at 6pm on Saturday October 22, 4004 BC.

Actually, he put the date at October 23, and then pedantically realised that time must have begun the night before, because the Bible said that "the evening and the morning were the first day."

Yes, but did he account for daylight savings time?

[So Cal Rocket]

In related news Charlotte Nield, wife of Ted Nield, the communications officer for the Geological Society of London, has put in a missing persons report for her husband. She was quoted as saying, "He drank too much at Earth's 6000 year birthday party and wandered off... we think he may have walked off the side of the earth."

[BaBaStooey]

These idiots belittle other people's beliefs as scientific nonsense, sounding very much like they are high on a hill elitists high above everyone else...when they cannot figure out simple mathematics?

Good grief.

[freep4ever]

I'll drink to that as well! And send prayers to God in thanks for the Universe, WHENEVER it was made.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If I remember my history, Sir Issac Newton said he found nothing wrong in Usser's dating.

But then, what did Newton know about it!

[proud American in Canada]

Perhaps Theresa will lift a cold one in honor of the Universe's birthday?

[Bryan24]

Here's something to think about:

Adam was 930 years old when he died, according to the Bible. The question is, did Adam start counting the day he was created or the day he sinned.

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

We know that Adam did physically die (i.e heart stop beating, stop breathing) on that day.

So, did TIME begin for Adam on that day?

That opens up some VERY interesting possibilities, does it not?

[kanawa]

I question the timing of this announcement.

[Diamond]

"...he calculated that it began at 6pm on Saturday October 22, 4004 BC.

It seems kind of strange to me that Ussher could have thought that that universe began on the 7th day, the Sabbath.

Cordially,