How many moles of Guacamole did Bishop Ussher consume on this day? How about Samuel S. Snow on the same day some years later? Not that this Epic FAIL is going to deter the True Believers - dealing with them is a "a repetitious and futile task" and they'll keep coming up with fresh dates. I bet many expect this November 4th to be one of those dates....
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I get to do some more traveling this morning, so I'll leave you with an off-the-wall question: since Denyse O'Leary has taken over most of the posting on Uncommon Descent, and since most of her posts link to some other in her network of poorly trafficked, repetitious blogs (and somet
This is hilarious. That wacky Islamic creationist, Harun Yahya, sent all those copies of his great big expensive book, Atlas of Creation, to biologists all around the country, and darned few of us have actually bothered to look at it in any detail.
Daniels half-term homework included seeing a Tudor building, which we only discovered rather late... Sunday in fact.
This simpering sycophant to John A. Davison has been spamming the site recently, yammering away to get everyone's attention despite the fact that he has been banned.
Guacamole contains tomato and avocado - both new world plants. In the 17th century, these Aztec foods had probably reached Spain - but perhaps not most of the rest of Europe. Ussher probably never tasted either.
Furthermore, Ussher originally calculated the date assuming the Julian Calendar. On the Gregorian Calendar, I'm not sure what date it should be - the adjustment should be 15 days per 2000 years, thus, 45 days, thus, September 8th. But Wikipedia says September 21. I must be missing some ugly detail.
Anyway - Ussher wrote that he was uncertain both about the exact number of begats - he thought some might of been lost or added by mistake - and that he was uncertain about the length of time represented by each begat - so the exact day was not meaningful.