There were academics and theologians who spent hours calculating what they thought was the precise age of the Earth, on the basis of the Biblical acc… - Jonathan Miller
" "There were academics and theologians who spent hours calculating what they thought was the precise age of the Earth, on the basis of the Biblical account of it. And as early as 1650, James Ussher had come to the startlingly precise conclusion that the Earth was created in 4004 <small>B.C.</small> on October the 22nd—in the evening, apparently. What God had been doing that morning is still open to conjecture.
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Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was a British theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor.
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With thoughtfulness—and, above all, with literacy—thoughts themselves become subjects of discussion in a way that they wouldn't have been before they were written down. It's not until they're written down that they become stable enough to bear examination in the same way that physical objects themselves can bear examination.
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