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measurements in order to provide scientifically accurate dimensions for this literal city.
He then calculates the average cubic living space for each inhabitant (the physically
resurrected bodies of the saved) by estimating total world population since Creation, plus
people born during the Millennium, divided by five (from his estimation that 20% of all
living souls will have been saved), arriving at a total population of 20 billion for the New
Jerusalem. This works out to about one-thirtieth of a cubic mile per resurrected body—
quite spacious, actually (1983:450-451).
In 1902 Jabez Dimbleby, a founder of several British chronological and
astronomical associations, wrote a book called The Date of Creation: Its Immovable and
Scientific Character, in which he used eclipse cycles, planetary orbits, lunar and solar
cycles, other astronomical data, and Hebrew and Chaldean calendars. He calculated that
all these various cycles began together at 3996 B.C., which is thus the date of Creation.
(He seems to have supposed that the geological ages, though, preceded this Creation.)
Dimbleby reasons that scientific and calendrical data (including biblical data) can be
analyzed to yield the exact date of Creation, which is a “factual” event attested to in
Genesis.
This tradition is carried on by Eugene Faulstich, an electrical engineer and former
president of the Bible-Science Association. Faulstich founded the Chronology-History
Research Institute in Iowa, which is intended as a graduate level school devoted to Bible
apologetics, specializing in study of Bible chronology and dating. Using computer
analysis, Faulstich shows that Bible chronology, without assuming any gaps in the
Genesis genealogies, is completely accurate. Creation can be conclusively dated to
Sunday, March 17th, 4001 B.C. The thesis of one of his reports is that “Old Testament
Hebrew Scripture can scientifically be proven to be historically accurate since Creation,
and that Jesus was predestined in that history as the Messiah and Saviour of the world”
(n.d.). Number patterns discovered by Faulstich’s analyses prove the supernatural origin
and plan of history chronicled and foretold in the Bible, and confirms the recent creation
of the universe (Absolute Chronology of the Universe, n.d.; Moses the Astronomer and
Historian par Excellence, 1983; History, Harmony and the Hebrew Kings, 1986; and his
periodical It’s About Time). Time-spans between significant biblical events occur as
unusual and patterned sums of days, with a numerologically significant preponderance of
7s and 3s. From study of the Hebrew lunar and solar calendar systems, Faulstich found
that all the calendrical cycles (weekly cycles, months, Priestly cycles, Sabbath and
Jubilee years) were aligned only once every 2395 years. One of these alignments was
4001 B.C.: the date of Creation. Faulstich also discovered an equally significant
astronomical alignment of the earth, moon, Venus, Mars and Mercury which also
occurred at 4001 B.C., for which he claims confirmation from the Harvard Center for
Astrophysics (and specifically Owen Gingerich). 5
In Science Speaks: Scientific Proof of the Accuracy of Prophecy and the Bible
(1958), Peter Stoner demonstrates how modern scientific discoveries are just now
catching up with—and confirming—the Bible. Much of the book is a presentation of the
probability argument—now a favorite with fundamentalists—concerning a list of Bible
prophecies. Stoner assigns a probability of each prophecy coming true; the probability of
5 For a critical evaluation of Faulstich’s chronological computations and analysis and the significance ot eh
astronomical conjunctions, see W. Jefferys 1987.