From the article: "After a 1647 work on the origin of the Creeds, Ussher published a treatise on the calendar in 1648. This was a warm-up for his most famous work, the Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti ("Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world"), which appeared in 1650, and its continuation, Annalium pars postierior, published in 1654. In this work, he calculated the date of the Creation to have been nightfall preceding 23 October 4004 BC." - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from Bookmarklet

I had to look him up because of today's XKCD (http://xkcd.com/1076/). - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

I don't have much to say here, except that for a church that fights evolution a lot, it makes me giggle that this guy was the primate of all Ireland. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

That evolution thing may change in our life times (at least I hope so). Rumor has it younger Cardinals want to say that evolution is ok. They already did this with the big bang theory, they just ask scientists not probe before it (not that that should stop scientists, just repeating). - Dario Gomez

Interesting, Dario. I wonder how long that will take. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

The trajectory of the contemporary Roman Catholic Church had always been towards acceptance of evolution as scientific fact (with some spiritual caveats) and John Paul II basically said it's true, but, like with a lot of things, Benedict has been trying to get the pendulum to swing the other way. Even still, Catholicism isn't really that antagonistic to science as some other sects. But no one lives forever, and I think of what Max Planck said. - Victor Ganata

His very precisely 'calculated' time of creation always makes me smile :) - Eivind