This Day in History: Irish archbishop James Ussher died on this day in 1656. If you have an old King James Bible with annotations you may already have Ussher's Biblical chronology, which at Genesis 1 has the creation of the world set at October 23, 4004 B.C., at 9am. While this date came under fire in later centuries, the fantasy novel Good Omens humorously stated that he was only "off by a quarter of an hour." Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould came to Ussher's defense, not for being correct, but for it being "an honorable effort for its time." After all Isaac Newton put the year of creation at 4000 B.C., Kepler chose 3977 B.C. and Martin Luther insisted it was 3961 B.C.
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