Abstract
As everyone knows, in almost all modern cosmological models the origin of the Universe is placed between 10 and 20 billion years ago (van den Bergh 1984). The only exception I am aware of is the steady state theory, which has recently been given new life by the inflationary universe model (see Gott 1982, and Schramm's conference presentation), and which requires the universe to be infinitely old. No modern cosmological theory holds the Universe's age to be a mere 6,000 years, the traditional value in the West for centuries (Ussher 1660; Whiston 1696, 1717; Haber 1959). It is universally thought that radioactive dating and astronomical observation have definitely ruled out such a short age for the Universe. It is universally thought that it is impossible to construct a falsifiable theory which is consistent with the thousands of observations indicating an age of billions of years, but which holds that the Universe is only a few thousand years old.
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