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Show Day of Creation Is Basis of Calendar Giving Year as 577 According to Jewish dogma and tradition, the Day of Creation antedated ante-dated the birth of Christ approximately approxi-mately 3,761 years. Thus, the Jewish Jew-ish calendar, which the Jews ' adopted during the 15th century, reads 5711 in relation to 1950 A.D. Use of the notation A.D. (in the year of our Lord) was inaugurated by Charles III of Germany, who affixed the symbolism to the years of his reign in 879. The system of retroactively dating the years prior to the Saviour's birth and dedicating dedica-ting the succeeding years to His greater Glory was invented, along with the Christian era, by a monk about 532 A.D. The Christian era begins on January 1 in the middle of the fourth year of the 194th Olympiad, the 753rd year of the building of Rome and in 4714 of the Julian period. The Julian period, invented by Joseph Scaliger about 1583 A.D., was devised by multiplying the lunar cycle 19, solar cycle 28 and the Roman indiction 15. Apparently the Egyptians were the first to figure out any 'exact' measurement of time (about 4,000 B.C.). Having devised a 'calendar,' the experts turned their attention to estimating the date of the 'beginning' 'begin-ning' and the Mundane era of Alexander Alex-ander fixed that estimate at 5502 B.C. Modern research has developed a new time clock, which utilizes the principle of radioactivity. Wood samples now can be radioactively 'dated' as far back as 4,600 years, and atomic scientists hope soon to extend their measurements as far back as 20,000 years long before the dawn of history. And there is plenty of room to go back, back, back, since astronomers astrono-mers and geologists estimate the earth to be at least three or four billion years old. |
