In the eighteenth century, the accepted date for the origin of the earth, as calculated in the seventeenth century by Archbishop Ussher, was:

A. 1 million B.C.
B. 250,000 B.C.
C. 10,550 B.C.
D. 4004 B.C.


D. 4004 B.C.

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