"Bryan testified in court that the world was created in six 24-hour days but then went even farther. Based on calculations made by Bishop Usher in the seventeenth century, Bryan testified that the earth was created 'exactly' in 4004 B.C. on October 23 at 9:00 a.m.—'a literal fact,' he added, 'not my opinion.' When he was then asked how such a date and time could be ascertained given that the sun was not yet created until the fourth day, Bryan wilted, 'The Bible says it’s so.'
Darrow then drove home the point: without a sun to tell time, 'Isn’t it possible that [the first day] could have been 25 hours?' Bryan waffled and Mencken’s eyes brightened as he saw the ingenious trap that Darrow then expertly closed: 'It could have been 30 hours, could have been a week, could have been a month, could have been a year, could have been 100 years, or it could have been ten million years!'""Bryan testified in court that the world was created in six 24-hour days but then went even farther. Based on calculations made by Bishop U...all »"Bryan testified in court that the world was created in six 24-hour days but then went even farther. Based on calculations made by Bishop Usher in the seventeenth century, Bryan testified that the earth was created 'exactly' in 4004 B.C. on October 23 at 9:00 a.m.—'a literal fact,' he added, 'not my opinion.' When he was then asked how such a date and time could be ascertained given that the sun was not yet created until the fourth day, Bryan wilted, 'The Bible says it’s so.'
Darrow then drove home the point: without a sun to tell time, 'Isn’t it possible that [the first day] could have been 25 hours?' Bryan waffled and Mencken’s eyes brightened as he saw the ingenious trap that Darrow then expertly closed: 'It could have been 30 hours, could have been a week, could have been a month, could have been a year, could have been 100 years, or it could have been ten million years!'"«
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