[Vision2020] Vision2020 Digest, Vol 21, Issue 60

[Chasuk]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:08 AM, donald edwards
<donaledwards at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Is carbon-14 dating technology that old?  If not which technology did he
> use?  We should be careful to only refernce up to date, testable & proven
> information when possible lest we fail to adapt and survive leading us to
> extinction, though that would just prove in some people's minds that the
> apocolypse was indeed coming as foretold.  So it is written, so let it be
> done.

No one is really suggesting that Usshers computations were correct.  I
think there is some gentle mocking going on here.  Ussher, I believe,
arrived at these dates by adding up all of the begats.