Why is the earth only 6 thousand years old?

[essentialsaltes]

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?

Right, the difference is immaterial for most purposes. I guess I'm just sticking at you invoking Occam's Razor, where it doesn't seem to apply.

It's convenient to use 4004 BC. Most people familiar with YEC know exactly what you mean, in part because that date has been well popularized.

But there's nothing particularly simpler about 4004 BC than 3961 BC (Luther's date).

 

[RileyG]

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

Young earth creationism/literal translation of Genesis.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

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.

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

Scripture does not give us the age of the earth only the age and geneology of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I personally think "man" made in God's image is different from "creatures" , which I belive includes prehistoric humanoids, in Genesis. There was a reason Cain was frightened to leave his family and it wasn't his brothers and sisters but one of the many other
human type creatures. My take anyway.
Blessings

 

[RileyG]

Scripture does not give us the age of the earth only the age and geneology of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I personally think "man" made in God's image is different from "creatures" in Genesis. There was a reason Cain was frightened to leave his family and it wasn't his brothers and sisters but one of the many other
human type creature. My take anyway.
Blessings

Very interesting

A reference to the Nephilim perhaps? Scripture doesn't say when they first appeared? There weren't other archaic humans wandering around, no?

 

[AV1611VET]

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

What ignoreth I?

 

[Mr Laurier]

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.

And who or what is "Clio"?

 

[AV1611VET]

And who or what is "Clio"?

Does it matter?

 

[Tom 1]

What ignoreth I?

Well, I meant Ussher (Usser?), not your good self. I am certain you wouldn't be caught ignoreth-ing anything. By ignoring like a lot of theologians then and now he could have taken a gander at Jewish writings questioning the extended lifespans of biblical characters, by ignorant I mean he wouldn't have had access to only recently translated texts (tablets) from around the same period with similar people living a very long time type scenarios, indicating there was some purpose to that other than a kind of medical record.

 

[AV1611VET]

Well, I meant Ussher (Usser?), not your good self. I am certain you wouldn't be caught ignoreth-ing anything. By ignoring like a lot of theologians then and now he could have taken a gander at Jewish writings questioning the extended lifespans of biblical characters, by ignorant I mean he wouldn't have had access to only recently translated texts (tablets) from around the same period with similar people living a very long time type scenarios, indicating there was some purpose to that other than a kind of medical record.

Ya ... um ...

23 October 4004 BC

 

[Tom 1]

Ya ... um ...

23 October 4004 BC

It seems the people who were alive, beginning to live in settled groups, making pottery and whatever else they got up to before that didn't get the memo. Unless perhaps you think god created everything they left behind just to mess with your head.

 

[AV1611VET]

It seems the people who were alive, beginning to live in settled groups, making pottery and whatever else they got up to before that didn't get the memo. Unless perhaps you think god created everything they left behind just to mess with your head.

You were there?

 

[Tom 1]

You were there?

What does that have to do with it?

A god who left traces of human life way older than 6,000 years just - well why exactly? - wouldn’t be someone you’d want running things. Taking things like dates, numbers and so on as if they were intended to be literal is just a basic error. You don’t even know why you do it.

 

[AV1611VET]

A god who left traces of human life way older than 6,000 years just - well why exactly?

God didn't "leave traces of human life" lying around like some litterbug.

In addition, science can't find traces of two million Jews on a peninsula, even with the Bible having documented every place they visited in detail.

When it comes to the Bible, scientists do sloppy -- and I mean SLOPPY -- work.

 

[Tom 1]

God didn't "leave traces of human life" lying around like some litterbug.

In addition, science can't find traces of two million Jews on a peninsula, even with the Bible having documented every place they visited in detail.

When it comes to the Bible, scientists do sloppy -- and I mean SLOPPY -- work.

Reading selectively to confirm what you already think makes your whole life pointless.

 

[AV1611VET]

Reading selectively to confirm what you already think makes your whole life pointless.

Then show me where I'm wrong.

 

[Tom 1]

Then show me where I'm wrong.

I don’t have enough fingers. Educate yourself, you’ll thank yourself for it.

 

[AV1611VET]

I don’t have enough fingers. Educate yourself, you’ll thank yourself for it.

LOL -- science's best tools can't confirm one single miracle in the Bible.

So you can have all the fingers and toes you want, but the equipment you're using them on is a joke and an embarrassment.

 

[Tom 1]

LOL -- science's best tools can't confirm one single miracle in the Bible.

So you can have all the fingers and toes you want, but the equipment you're using them on is a joke and an embarrassment.

There are more things involved than science and the bible.

 

[AV1611VET]

There are more things involved than science and the bible.

And which one(s) of those things "left traces of human life way older than 6,000 years" just lying around?

 

[Tom 1]

And which one(s) of those things "left traces of human life way older than 6,000 years" just lying around?

Neither, the people living at the time and before quite happily left their own traces, without help from either science or the bible. Unless you want to define things like making pots (and potter's wheels) as scientific.