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  2. Dating creation - Wikipedia

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    Dating creation is the attempt to provide an estimate of the age of Earth or the age of the universe as understood through the creation myths of various religious traditions. Various traditional beliefs hold that the Earth , or the entire universe , was brought into being in a grand creation event by one or more deities .

  3. Ussher chronology - Wikipedia

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    Ussher further narrowed down the date by using the Jewish calendar to establish the "first day" of creation as falling on a Sunday near the autumnal equinox. [9] The day of the week was a backward calculation from the six days of creation with God resting on the seventh, which in the Jewish calendar is Saturday—hence, Creation began on a Sunday.

  4. Anno Mundi - Wikipedia

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    In the Hebrew calendar, the day begins at sunset. The calendar's epoch, corresponding to the calculated date of the world's creation, is equivalent to sunset on the Julian proleptic calendar date 6 October 3761 BCE. [2] The new year begins at Rosh Hashanah, in Tishrei.

  5. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] For both Christians and Jews, the prime historical date was the Year of Creation, or Annus Mundi. [45] The Eastern Orthodox Church fixed the date of Creation at 5509 BC. [45] This remained the basis of the ecclesiastical calendar in the Greek and Russian Orthodox world until modern times. [45] The Coptic Church fixed on 5500 BC.

  6. Anno Domini - Wikipedia

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    The AP dating system took its start from 'The Year of The Passion'. It is generally accepted by experts there is a 27-year difference between AP and AD reference. [20] The date of birth of Jesus of Nazareth is not stated in the gospels or in any secular text, but most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 BC and 4 BC. [21]

  7. Traditional Jewish chronology - Wikipedia

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    Jewish tradition has long preserved a record of dates and time sequences of important historical events related to the Jewish nation, including but not limited to the dates fixed for the building and destruction of the Second Temple, and which same fixed points in time (henceforth: chronological dates) are well-documented and supported by ancient works, although when compared to the ...

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  9. Young Earth creationism - Wikipedia

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    The most accepted and popular date of creation among young Earth creationists is 4004 BC because this specific date appears in the Ussher chronology. This chronology was included in many Bibles from 1701 onwards, including the authorized King James Version. [23]