CREATIONISTS: if the flood occurred 4400 years ago,then why is the chinese calendar already past the year 4700

Question

just after the flood, the only people alive (namely noah and his family) would have been living near the middle east. the tower of babel supposedly didn't fall until over 100 years after the flood, and even then it's bit much to claim that people could've made it to china right away.

in any case, how could the chinese calendar have started 300 years before the flood and still survive today?? did noah's family keep the chinese calendar up to date in addition to their own jewish calendar??

also,,, who were the people who used to live in china before the flood? surely they could not be described as "chinese people" as true chinese people are descended from noah and therefore unrelated to these original inhabitants.

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ST JOHN,

ooh, you really didn't think that one through very far, did you. look man, let's suppose that the chinese calendar gat started up 100 years after the flood (about 4,300 years ago) by a 400 year old man who started the date at the year 400 (to correspond to his age).

this would seem to take care of the number discrepancy, but did you not notice the glaringly obvious dilemma that this would mean the man was born 300 years before the flood? so how did he survive? was he on the arc? then why was he using any sort of calendar other than the jewish calendar? there we're only 8 people on the arc. it's quite an assertion to claim that they took along and kept alive two separate calendars.

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KIM C,

i'm sorry, are you under the impression that the chinese calendar is a theory?

if witness testimony is proof, then every religion in the world is true.

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SETFREEJN836,

i don't know how many days are in a "chinese year". even if they had been using 360-day years, 4,700 of them would be equal to over 4,630 regular years. so even then, it's just too long to match up with the flood theory.

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CIRQUE_DE_LUNE,

how is your analogy applicable? what i said isn't at all like what you said.

also, you said there are many explanations. well, what are they? don't just tell me that you have an answer, tell me the actual answer please.

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Answer 1

Wow...the blinding ignorance of the creationists is proudly waving here.

The Chinese knew how long years were, and they kept careful records. If any of you had bothered to check basic Chinese history, you would have known that. They didn't make their stuff up, and they didn't start from an arbitrary number. You have one of two possibilities: Either the Chinese didn't get wiped out at all( and therefore there was no worldwide flood at all), or Noah's descendants came across the ruins of the Chinese empire and picked up EXACTLY WHERE THEY LEFT OFF, including the language and traditions (really, really, REALLY improbable).

What evidence is there that the Flood tale came from a direct witness of the event? There isn;t any...just tradition and speculation.

Answer 2

wow you ask a question for creationists, and less than a third of the answers are actually relevant.

the flood is not the same as the beginning of the world. there were people on earth before the flood, and there were people on earth after the flood. there are a dozen different possibilities of how the Chinese ended up with that calendar.

that's a bit like saying, if America was born in the 1700's how did the Greeks have democracy. it just doesn't make sense.

Answer 3

Er, who suggested that there replaced into even a international ocean formerly the flood? interior the 2nd financial ruin of the e book of the Genesis, Earth have become barren, the place flowers are in basic terms periodically watered by springs around the Earth (no rain or something like that). This in assessment the 1st financial ruin, the place each and every little thing seems to be ok and Earth seems have been given sufficient water. of course between the 1st financial ruin and the 2nd financial ruin, Earth's floor have lost various water. until eventually of direction you think of the 2nd financial ruin is a extra specified clarification of the 1st financial ruin. A rainbow look after the flood, indicating that Earth's environment is now prosperous with water vapors. As for salt water. it quite is particularly achievable the salt got here an analogous way Sodom-Gommorah's salt got here from. it quite is achievable that salt on the sea got here from the deads, very like Lot's spouse replaced into decreased to her uncomplicated aspects (which incorporates usually salt). besides. it quite is sparkling the preliminary start up of the flood is brought about by the fountains of the deep, besides the indisputable fact that that on my own probably isn't sufficient, it truly is why the floodgates of heaven have been opened. What are the floodgates of heaven? nicely, there are a number of achievable components of the floodgates of heaven. here's available. The Moon acted as a water provider. It wasn't in Earth orbit on the time and carried the water to Earth. After freeing its water to Earth, it then regulate its stream (lots much less complicated now because a number of its mass are long gone) and start up orbiting the Earth. The released water then slowly fall into Earth and develop into area of the international rain. Then on the top of the rain, the Earth start up soaking up the water. even if water left close to the exterior develop into the international ocean, the lakes, the glacier, the polar ice caps, the atmospheric water vapors, and so forth. it quite is a achievable scenario on how Earth have been given its moon (with its unique orbit) and how Earth have been given its huge volume of water (that seems to be maximum original interior the photograph voltaic device). lots extra rational than the super result hypothesis and the comet water transport device, yet probably discouraged formally due its scriptural references.

Answer 4

is the Chineese calender still based on a 360 day year? rather than a 365 day calender? When did the 365 day calendar come into play?
was it always a 360 day calendar? you should probably ask the chineese, not sure why they would come up with a 4700 year calendar when the earth is upwards of 6000+ years old. really how acurate could the chineese calendar be?

Answer 5

I haven't done the research to your so-called data, but obviously not everyone died in the Flood!!!! Some people were living before the flood and through the flood and after the flood. And I am not sure that the Chinese calendar is accurate.

Answer 6

See also Homer Simpson...

DOH!

good one,

keep up the logic

to many people who knew of no other civilization beyond their own, the Flood WAS the end of THEIR world..

and we see that obviously today that no 'omnipotent' god could have written a bible with limited perspective as we have today with on demand satelite imagery and weather or info like internet, otherwise we would see profound things and an advancement of society not the denigration of society thanks to limited education and redundancy of religion

the bible does say the rocks and the hills will sing the praise..or cry out

LOL Archealogy has been helping to disprove the bible's authors and validate locations but not thier limited claims such as sun thought to stop in mid-day, moon shining with it's own light, etc

Answer 7

Who said they started at zero.
The person who started that calendar may have started with the year they were born. Did you ask them?-no. The person who started that calendar could have been 20, 60, 120, or 400 years old-you don't know.
No problem there.

Answer 8

If it were true why isnt it written down somewhere, instead of just a theory? the flood , the bible is written down by witness who were there and saw what happened, proof of it being true.wit‧ness  /1.to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception: to witness an accident.
2. to be present at (an occurrence) as a formal witness, spectator, bystander, etc

Answer 9

Because the Chinese are Godless, Buddhist who are going to Hell for forging their calender purposely to destroy Christianity. Wow that was easy, now I'm off to prove that the world is only a hundred years old.

Answer 10

Prehaps the Chinese aren't very good with sums or maybe the Creationists are being a wee bit to Creative with their caluclations!