Dating Creation

I recently learned that the Hubble Space Telescope has detected the oldest burned-out stars in the galaxy, enabling scientists to fix the age of the universe at 13 to 14 billion years old. This figure lingered in my mind as I recently perused a newly published version of Archbishop James Ussher’s 1658 work, The Annals of the World, which famously fixed the date of the creation of the world at October 23, 4004 B.C. This is a big difference—a 6,000-year-old universe versus a 14,000,000,000-year-old one. As my grandmother used to say, “My, how times have changed!” The difference between […]