According to James Ussher, a prolific Church of Ireland scholar from Ireland the world was created on this day in 4004BC.
This date was part of the Chronology that he created based on the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time such a calculation was an amazing feat that required great knowledge of the history of various civilizations as well as knowledge of other sciences.
Today, however, we know that he was hopelessly wrong. It does not stop many a Christian to claim that the world was indeed created about 6000 years ago, with no idea who came up with the idea or how.
It does not matter which camp you may fall in, the fact remains that this is a date worth celebrating because what is more important, the birth of your insignificant self, the founding of your soon to die country or the creation of the world? I say we party like it is 6016.
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