Yeap! your dad was a JDUB! One must stick with the faulty Facts! AS if it were a matter of fact! I liked his reasoning! but the best was no one knows the day or hour! We are so brained washed into looking into chronology! I wonder if the rest of his dates stemed from Russell's writings and he just did not know it! That would be from the Chart of the Ages. Measuring inch for a year! LOL. Which is not even bibical stuff just garbage! In th e 1900s, people did came up with these caculation to win money from a college institution who wanted people to submit something scientific to the college. Newton wrote a book stated that Solomon's bibical temple was perfect and therefore they were made from God's perfect numbers. Okay his reasoning was good! Everyone went to town to win this money! Russell and a few of the idiots prior to Russell submitted there papers! Let measure a real pyramid and state they are God's numbers. To think how we were all brained washed into these dates and did not know there background! history. I wanted to add Adam's creation was 4026 years? Did you see if it is in the Finished Mystery book? LOL they cant even figure out Noah's flood date so how could he figure out Adam's creation date! He probably took it from the JDUBS who borrowed it from Russell's writings. He measured the pyramids to get this date. A inch for a year! Yeap, big thing in the late 1900's.
Something else, in order to be a Freemason one must write a book and do a business in the world. Newton's book could have been part of his links to Freemason's so he could become a 33 or 3rd degree mason. That would make sense that later, people would want to copy the Alchemist! but it was a too strange so unlike Newton reasoning skills. Russell, Smyth, and Mizer were just NUTS! YOU can not measure a temple based on false gods to get divine truths and chronology of mans lifespan! It bull crap at it best! But one must have followers to succeed! So really does you dad know where he got his 4026 date? He did he take it as a matter of fact from the WTBTS! LOL. They sure did make me do this a lot when I was a kid in the 60s.