Many creationists firmly believe that the earth cannot be more 6,000 years old. I am not going to discuss the age of the universe but I will discuss the development of civilization on earth.
When was fire domesticated?
“ Here we present evidence of fire-making on a 400,000-year-old buried landsurface at Barnham (UK), where heated sediments and fire-cracked flint handaxes were found alongside two fragments of iron pyrite—a mineral used in later periods to strike sparks with flint.”
ttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6
Fire led very quickly to cooking. The application of fire to metalworking was much slower.
On Copper:
“Its use was known in eastern Anatolia by 6500 BCE and it soon became widespread.”
That is 8,500 years ago.
Bronze Age | Definition, History, Inventions, Tools, & Facts | Britannica
When were dogs domesticated?
“Dogs were domesticated from their wolf ancestors over 15,000 years ago.”
The Evolution of Dogs, Accidental Best Friends
This is Ohio Wesleyan University
When were cats domesticated?
“Together the transport of cats to the island and the burial of the human with a cat indicate that people had a special, intentional relationship with cats nearly 10,000 years ago in the Middle East.”
The Evolution of House Cats
When were sheep domesticated?
“Now, research at an 11,000-year-old settlement in Turkey shows that some early farmers kept wild sheep penned up in the middle of their village—thus setting the stage for the dramatic changes that led to today's domesticated animals.”
A Brief History of Goat Domestication - The Livestock Conservancy
When were cattle domesticated?
“All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a new genetic study.”
DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago
This is University College, London, England
When were goats domesticated?
“Judging by early signs of domestication, such as bones from the slaughter of male young [goats], this started around 10,500 years ago in Anatolia (Turkey) and the Zagros Mountains (Iran)
A Brief History of Goat Domestication - The Livestock Conservancy
When was wheat cultivated?
“Cultivated for 10,000 years, wheat is one of the world’s most important plants.”
Wheat 101 | National Associate of Wheat Growers
This is the National Association of Wheat Growers
When was barley first cultivated?
“Remains of barley (Hordeum vulgare) grains found at archaeological sites in the Fertile Crescent indicate that about 10,000 years ago the crop was domesticated there from its wild relative Hordeum spontaneum.”
https://www.researchgate.net/public...mestication_History_of_Barley_Hordeum_vulgare
When was rice cultivated?
“...the earliest archaeological evidence [for cultivation of rice] comes from central and eastern China and dates to 7,000-5,000 BCE.
That would be between 9,000 and 7,000 years ago.
Rice | Description, History, Cultivation, & Uses | Britannica
Everything we know about the history of humans on earth contradicts the claim that the earth could be only 6,000 years old. The Bible is a source of moral and spiritual truth, but it is not a history text.
No the Bible is not a history text to be taught as history but there is history in the Bible.
Just as the Bible is not a science text to be taught as science but there is science in the Bible.
The Bible is an translation of a language by people who did not know it or speak it. It can't be proven that the Jewish Rabbis who is said to have aided in the translation of Hebrews and Greek scriptures did not speak the same Jewish/Hebrew or ancient Greek language as those a few thousand years earlier.
How the Hebrew Language Evolved Through History
How the Hebrew Language Evolved Through History
I am believer in Yahweh / Yeshua or Elohim, whichever name one chooses / a Christian. But I have found misunderstanding in the early translation - interpretations of what scripture seems to indicate which has been passed down through the centuries and accepted as truth.
Though you're not directly talking about 6,000-year-old Earth I believe the Hebrew word yom/yome was misunderstood and though seen as a literal 24-hour day it actually meant a span of time or a point in time _ they overlooked the fact that the 24-hour day was not created until the 4th day God's timing. God's timing: 2nd Peter 3:8 one day to him is as a thousand years and A thousand years is as a day, simply meaning not subjected to.
Since Christianity was adopted into the Roman and English providences the early churches taught and passed down through history what they felt was true.
Nowhere in Scripture does it State the age of the Earth but the translators, interpretation interpreted it to their understanding. Yes the Earth is billions of years old.
The church has taught Adam and Eve had two children after sin and being tossed out of the garden rejecting the notion that Adam and Eve had hundreds of children before they were rejected out of the garden before they sinned....... That was the early translators way of understanding scripture and passed down that teaching throughout the centuries.
Daniel 4:12 tells us that in the last days people will be going to and fro and knowledge shall increase and that has definitely occurred. Many Churches are beginning to see errors in the ways of teaching and some are identifying it and changing.
Adam and Eve had to have had children before they were cast out of the garden, hundreds if not thousands and they may have lived even to 1 to 200,000 years before they sinned........ The Tree of Life fruit as indicated in Genesis 3:22 gave form of immortality / healing. God gave them the fruit of that tree to eat, but the church denies they ate it because of it wasn't written. There are a lot of things that is not written in the Bible that the church teaches truth example: Cain married his sister, but it's not written in the Bible that Adam and Eve had any daughters.
The church can't explain or try to explain where the people come from who God told not to kill Cain. But they teach Cain and Abel were the only two born to Adam and Eve.
The church cannot explain nor do they try to explain how or why there was a land called Nod, who named it who lived there.
The church cannot explain nor do they try to explain why cane married his wife in the Land of Nod.
Science which is God given to man gives us a good idea of the time span of all life forms here on Earth.
