Irish Archbishop James Ussher's Account Of Young Earth Creationism

Young earth creationism is the belief that the earth along with the rest of the universe is only five to six thousand years old. The theorists who defend this idea base their defense off of the bible’s six day account of creation. Genesis chapter one gives a very specific process in which God created the universe by making a certain part of it one day at a time. This process according to the Old Testament only took six days. According to American Biology Teach Randy Moore “the museum [of Creationism] and Young-Earth creationism are based on Irish Archbishop James Ussher's (1581-1656) claim that creation occurred in 4004 BC.” (Moore, 2008, pp.326). Since young earth creationism was technically founded by Archbishop James Ussher’s date of 4004
Many Christians believe in a theory known as Old-Earth creationism which tries to fit the Bible’s account of creation to what secular scientist say was a process that took billions of years. The more popularly held belief amongst Christians is the idea known as young-earth creationism. Young-Earth Creationism focuses on the literal Biblical account of creation. Timothy H. Heaton describes it by saying “young earth creationists are busy trying to build a detailed model of earth history based on a literal reading of the Book of Genesis” (Heaton, 2009, pp. 1342). Young earth creationism is one of the most Biblically accurate beliefs about the origin and age of the earth because it focuses on the literal account the Bible gives. Instead of taking the words figuratively like old-earth and theistic evolution supporters or ignoring it completely like secular scientists do, young earth creationism factors in the original language the account is described in to form a comprehensive length of
The conflict rises because young earth creationism describes the earth as only being six thousand years old whereas evolution is a widely accepted scientific explanation for the species and is a process that takes millions of years. According to Eugene C. Scott, a science’s accepted and factual explanation for existence is evolution but only forty four percent of Americans actually believe is, when describing the reason for the gap in belief he attributes it to biblical beliefs like young earth creationism (Scott, 1997, pp. 263). Scott is very accurate in saying that theology is the reason for so much distrust in evolution. Which is where the conflict arises between secular scientist and creationists like young earth creationists. The possibility that the earth is indeed created by God would have a lot of moral obligation for people who do not want to have to follow them. The possibility of evolution has the potential to steer individuals away from living their life believing in a higher purpose. Although theistic evolutionists attempt to combine the two, they are really very much opposite and have totally counter acting implications and this is where the conflict between the two is