How old?

Wikipedia tells us that today is the anniversary of creation. According to Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar, which analyzes the Bible for an understanding of when the earth was created, it's happy birthday to us.

Ussher's chronology provides the following dates for key events in the Biblical history of the world:

* 4004 BC - Creation
* 2348 BC - The Great Flood
* 1921 BC - Yahweh's call to Abraham
* 1491 BC - The Exodus from Egypt
* 1012 BC - The founding of the Temple in Jerusalem
* 586 BC - The destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon and the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity
* 4 BC - The birth of Christ

Now, we must look at this with a degree of scepticism!^** Another article Dataing Creation explains that different cultures have different start dates.

Many historical calendars were based on these dates.

* Maya civilization - August 11 or August 13, 3114 BCE
* Judaism - 25 September or March 29 3760 BCE
* Western Christianity - September or October 4004 BCE
* Byzantine Empire - September 1, 5509 BCE
* Big Bang Theory - 13.7 ± 0.2 billion BCE

In the interest of balance, and recent learned debate, GF also refers you to the scholarly Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. What is not clear from the latter view, is when the Creation actually took place.

^** Surely not? It must be true.

[File under: Creation, Whimsy]