by Joseph King

Created on: December 10, 2011

Astronomer and physicist Galileo, following up on Copernicus’s notion that the Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun, was chastised by the Catholic Church. The book of Genesis states that the earth was created before the sun and the stars. Psalm 104:5 states “He founded the earth on its foundations that it not falter to eternity.” This not only suggests that the sun revolves around the earth, but that the planet is actually stationary, not even turning on its access. The Catholic church officially refused to believe that the earth revolved around the sun until decades after astronauts and spaceships actually travelled into space and showed them pictures to demonstrate. Galileo was officially forgiven by Pope John Paul II on October 31, 1992, 350 years after his death.

            Despite radiometric-dating which proves the advanced age of fossils on earth and Cosmic Microwave Background which places the Universe at around 20 billion years old and the earth at 4.6 billion, there are people who cling to the belief that Adam and Eve rode around on Dinosaurs and swam amongst the trilobites.

            Christians derive the age of the earth from the book of Genesis, which states that God created the earth, the heavens, and all the animals on it under a week. There are multiple references that these “young earth creationists” call upon that place the earth between 6,000 and 10,000 years old. However, for this editorial, we will once again turn to our friend, the King James Bible. Church of Ireland Archbishop James Ussher published his chronology, which pointed the exact date of man’s creation to be October 23, 4004 B.C. using some abstruse formula calculated between the Roman calendar and the Old Testament text itself. The irony of this is that young earth creationists believe this because it has some form of scientific base as it was mathematically “calculated” to be true.

            Ussher looked at the creation of the earth as a six day period, and hypothesized that each of God’s days equaled 1,000 years. Jesus was well-documented to have been born during the era of King Herod, who was actually recorded to have died in the year 4 B.C, meaning that Jesus had to have been born between 37 B.C., when King Herod’s reign began, and

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