Ussher's intense and obsessive project seems very odd to the eyes of a modern scientist. After all he had deduced the age of the Earth without looking at a scrap of physical evidence-not a single rock. (Stephen Baxter)

Ussher's intense and obsessive project seems very odd to the eyes of a modern scientist. After all he had deduced the age of the Earth without looking at a scrap of physical evidence-not a single rock.

Stephen Baxter

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