Episode 54: Genesis Genealogies: Calculating the Age of Creation

The world began in 4004 BC, or that is what Bishop Ussher believed. How do we know? Join Todd and Paul as they begin a series on the genealogies of Genesis and how they calculate the age of the Earth. Also, check out our new website at https://letstalkcreation.org/

Resources Mentioned in the Podcast

In 1890, a famous Princeton professor named William Henry Green wrote an article called “Primeval Chronology,” wherein he surveyed all the genealogies of the Bible and tried to draw some conclusions.
http://toddcwood.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-primeval-chronology-of-william.html

Weld-Blundell Prism
The Sumerian Kings List, fragmentary clay tablets using a form of writing called cuneiform. There’s only one mostly complete copy of this record that today is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld-Blundell_Prism
https://www.ashmolean.org/sumerian-king-list

Hippolytus of Rome Chronicon
Early Church Father who was concerned with using the genealogies of the Bible to construct a biblical chronology.
https://amzn.to/3Feg7V7
http://toddcwood.blogspot.com/2017/12/hippolytus-of-rome.html

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