ABSTRACT
The Genesis as presented in the English translation would certainly justify Ussher in assuming that he could determine the date of the creation of Adam by figuring back to the event. The foregoing paragraphs indicate three apparent discrepancies between the theory of the evolutionary development of man and the Scriptural account of his origin in a special creative act of God. A number of passages teach that the sin of one man, Adam, passed a heritage of sin upon the entire human race. In any case, there are conservative scholars who believe that there are gaps of unknown duration in this genealogy and that these gaps push the date of Adam back far earlier than Ussher’s estimate. However, it is hard to see how any intellectually tenable gaps could push the date of Adam back 100,000 and more years to a time when anthropologists and evolutionists claim that early man lived upon earth.
