Why is the earth only 6 thousand years old?

[ozso]

What is the conclusion that the Earth is only six thousand years old based on?

 

[Nithavela]

What is the conclusion that the Earth is only six thousand years old based on?

I think somebody added up the ages of bible characters from adam to jesus and then the current year, which comes out as 6000-something.

 

[ozso]

I think somebody added up the ages of bible characters from adam to jesus and then the current year, which comes out as 6000-something.

Me too. I want to find out if there's anything else that supports the idea. Because genealogies in the Bible are usually incomplete and only mentions certain individuals. Some are quite short like Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus.

 

[Pavel Mosko]

What is the conclusion that the Earth is only six thousand years old based on?

That is based on the a view of history that comes from totaling the genealogies and other historical chronicles in the Bible, and disregards what we know of natural history.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

What is the conclusion that the Earth is only six thousand years old based on?

Ussher

Keep asking questions.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I think somebody added up the ages of bible characters from adam to jesus and then the current year, which comes out as 6000-something.

Anglican bishop Ussher, I think. Creation at 404 BC. I think they even had a month and a day for it.

 

[AV1611VET]

What is the conclusion that the Earth is only six thousand years old based on?

I think it's based on the assumption that age and time started together.

In other words, Adam and the rocks around him were both created the same age.

Put another way: age started at the same time that time started.

Something like that.

 

[AV1611VET]

Anglican bishop Ussher, I think. Creation at 404 BC. I think they even had a month and a day for it.

23 October 4004 BC

 

[Nithavela]

Anglican bishop Ussher, I think. Creation at 404 BC. I think they even had a month and a day for it.

Missed a number somewhere?

 

[inquiring mind]

What is the conclusion that the Earth is only six thousand years old based on?

Based on biblical genealogies as opposed to ‘so-called’ scientific evidence. The real problem is that both camps think they understand time, that it is linear and has always been so, that parallel and non-linear continuums are impossible in the physical world and even for God.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Missed a number somewhere?

Sorry. I usually try to reead my posts for stupid errors like that before I senf them.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Ussher's date is the most famous, but many other people have made similar calculations or rely on traditions.

The current Jewish calendar puts year 1 at 3761 BC

And depending which Bible manuscript you prefer, later Christian calculations cluster around either 4000 BC or 5500 BC.

 

[AV1611VET]

Ussher's date is the most famous, but many other people have made similar calculations or rely on traditions.

The current Jewish calendar puts year 1 at 3761 BC

And depending which Bible manuscript you prefer, later Christian calculations cluster around either 4000 BC or 5500 BC.

I prefer using Ussher's dates for the sake of Occam's razor.

 

[ozso]

Ussher's date is the most famous, but many other people have made similar calculations or rely on traditions.

The current Jewish calendar puts year 1 at 3761 BC

And depending which Bible manuscript you prefer, later Christian calculations cluster around either 4000 BC or 5500 BC.

Is there any recorded history or calendars in existence that predates 3761 BC?

The only other ancient calendar I know of is the Chinese calendar which only goes back to 2637 BC.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I prefer using Ussher's dates for the sake of Occam's razor.

You may have mistaken popularity for simplicity.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Is there any recorded history or calendars in existence that predates 3761 BC?

The only other ancient calendar I know of is the Chinese calendar which only goes back to 2637 BC.

I guess there are two questions here.

A) A calendar that *existed* before 3761 BC, or

B) a calendar that points to dates before 3761 BC.

For A, I don't think so, since that date is literally prehistoric. Or if it does, we have no way to connect it to the modern calendar. (e.g. something like this artifact from 10,000 years ago)

For B, the other parts of the Wiki page I linked talk about some others, like the system in Hinduism that involves past cycles of millions of years.

 

[Mink61]

Is there any recorded history or calendars in existence that predates 3761 BC?

The only other ancient calendar I know of is the Chinese calendar which only goes back to 2637 BC.

The Sumerian King List might be of interest to you...

Sumerian King List - Wikipedia

 

[AV1611VET]

You may have mistaken popularity for simplicity.

When comparing the date of the earth to how long it has been in existence, what's a hundred years or so going to make a difference?

Usher says the earth was created in 4004 BC; Clio says it formed around 4,500,000,000 BC.

Meh.

 

[Tom 1]

Anglican bishop Ussher, I think. Creation at 404 BC. I think they even had a month and a day for it.

And a time. Without checking, so I could be completely wrong, but I think it was something like 9.10am on a Tuesday morning.

 

[Tom 1]

I prefer using Ussher's dates for the sake of Occam's razor.

Ignoring, or just not knowing about, certain basic facts = ignorance, not simplicity.