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Peter Hendra Peter Hendra is offline
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:04:33 +0000, Larry wrote:

Peter Hendra wrote in
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6,010 years
Archbishop Usher set the date as 9am in the morning of the 10th of
October 4004 BC



They probably cut anyone's head off that asked where His Immenseness got
that information....(c;

Larry


No Larry,
They weren't that barbaric in the 17th century.

They just burned them alive at the stake. This was more civilised as
they might sometimes be given the chance to recant before they were
burned in which case they were humanely strangled first, burned after.
At least their souls would be saved.

Peter