One of the many intellectual legacies of the Enlightenment is the idea that the universe is older than 6000 years. While few Enlightenment thinkers doubted the notion of a created Earth, their rational examination of fossil and geological evidence led them to believe that natural history occurred differently from how it is depicted in the Scriptures. One of the most serious Biblical attempts to date the age of Creation was from a seventeenth-century Protestant theologian named James Ussher, who used the Bible to trace back the chronology of the world back to Adam and Eve. His chronology is still used by Creationists today.
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