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=== Long Chronology or Variant Manuscript Tradition === | === Long Chronology or Variant Manuscript Tradition === | ||
Several creationist scholars such as Lambert Dolphin base their chronologies on the Septuagint or the Samaritan Text of the Old Testament. These variant manuscripts add about 1500 years to the age of the world if a chronology is constructed from them using the same method as Ussher and others. | Several creationist scholars such as Lambert Dolphin base their chronologies on the [[Septuagint]] or the Samaritan Text of the Old Testament. These variant manuscripts add about 1500 years to the age of the world if a chronology is constructed from them using the same method as Ussher and others. In this system therefore, the date of creation (according to the Byzantine [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox Church]] calculation) is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_Creation#According_to_the_Book_of_Genesis September 1 5508 BC], giving the second dominant Biblical date for creation (i.e. circa 4000 BCE and 5500 BCE). | ||
== Points of Agreement == | == Points of Agreement == | ||
