The Jewish calendar starts from the creation of world 5767yrs ago. Is this true?

Question

ie. Was the world created 5767 years ago? Assuming I have understood this correctly.

I thought the earth was about 4.5billion years old and first life appeared about 500 million years ago and first humans about 200,000 years ago.

http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/1995/1_calendar.htm#Jewish

According to the jewish way of counting years, I think this is the year 5767.

The years are numbered from the Jewish creation of the world (3761 BC)

Mike, can you provide a reference because I don't think what you are saying about the quran is true. You can search using the link below:

http://www.searchtruth.com/

Please don't be abusive to anyone. I'm just curious about how this date and the differences with current scientific wisdom and other faiths.

aardvark. can you tell me (briefly) some of the explanations or links. Thanks

Answer 1

It's true if you want to believe . I don't.

Answer 2

Yeah, you're right, but no religion (as far as I know) dates the creation of the earth the same way as science does. Fundamentialist Christianity, for instance, refuses to accept evolution and Darwinism and so takes the Bible to be a literal account of the creation of the world, and that it all happened only a few thousand years ago. The Jewish dating system goes back as far as their records do, which is probably, like you're saying, about 5,000 years ago. The scientific facts about the creation of the world don't always wash with religion, though. It's up to you what you believe!

Answer 3

if you use bible chronology, you can work out adam lived about 6500 years ago roughly.
i'm not sure of how long a year is using the jewish calendar. the two may correspond or may not, either way though, it seems like adam was definately around about 6000 years ago. that is only the creation of man though, the creative days prior to the creation of man invovled the creating of everything else. the word used in the jewish manuscripts for 'day' when refering to the creation translates as an undefined period of time. so the earth could well be as old as scientist say

Answer 4

actually the Jewish cal lender says that Adam was born 5767 years ago. That dose not mean that the world/Universe was created at that time.

For many Jews the six "days" of creation are not literal nor where they ever taken to be literal. You have various Medieval Jewish commentators dating from The 10th and 12th century that say the six days are not real days. This is long before the age of modern cosmetology

Answer 5

Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. Life forms began to appear around 4 billion years ago. It is believed there was an original single celled life form, known as the "universal ancestor" from which all life on earth originated.

We would have found all this out sooner, had scientific progression in the 19th century not been held back by powerful religious types who worked out that the world was 20,000 years old, based on biblical references.

The universe is estimated to be between 11 and 17billion years old, although most recent research suggests 13billion is about the right ball park. It is also reckoned that we are about half way through whatever is currently happening - although scientists are split on whether the whole thing is going to collapse, fizzle out or rebound on itself... scientists, eh?

They've found evidence of human civilizations that go back to about 12, 000 years ago and the species has been recogniseable as homo-sapiens for about 180million years.

I don't think the Jewish calendar claims to start at the beginning of creation - just the beginning of God telling us about it. Hence the 20,000 year guess by the idiot brigade of the 19th century.

It beggars belief that there are people out there who choose not to believe these easily proveable facts. I mean, it's their choice and everything, but it's like choosing to believe the Earth is flat, or that the moon is made of cheese. I have carried out carbon dating myself on ancient rocks and fossils. It's actually not that exciting, but it's interesting and it's proof of the age of things.

And for AW, above, the Chinese civilizations go back much further than 5,00 years - about 10,000. Cave paintings? Pyramids? Stone monuments? Bronze age and iron age artefacts? You need to go to a few museums and read a few books, other than the bible, my dear.

Answer 6

According to Hinduism, the universe is cyclically created and destroyed.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Timeline

The age named [Kali yuga] or the "Black Age" is now running. The age is to last 432,000 human years in all; of this, 5,107 years have already passed (as of 2006 CE), and 426,893 years are yet to pass before the age ends.

It is prophesied in legend that six kings in Kali yuga will create new eras (Shaka's) which will be named after them. One of them, King Vikrama, ruled in Ujjaini city (Present day Ujjain city in Madhya Pradesh state of India) in the year 57 B.C. He started his own calendar dating by breaking the old Yudhishthira Shaka. Thus according to this calendar the Christian year, 2006 is equivalent to Hindu year 2062.

IT NO WAY MEANS THAT’S HOW OLD THE EARTH/UNIVERSE IS!
Thus you cannot assume that if it's the Jewish year 5767 then that's how old the world is.

For full Hindu Time Line see:
http://www.tamilnation.org/heritage/hindutimeline.htm

'AW' is free to believe anything. Even that the Earth is flat.

Answer 7

The Jewish calendar starts from 5767 years ago, that's all you can say.

There is a very small minority of Jews who believe that the world actually is that old. Almost all Jews, though, accept the findings of science that the world is 4.5 billion years old, and believe the creation story in Genesis is not a literal description.

Answer 8

There were no Jews before Yaqub(Jacob) and his twelve sons, and none after Musa(Moses).

The Bani Israil became Yahuudi under Musa and then some were Nazaaraa under Isa al Masih, AND THEN the Bible reinvented Jews for the Hoax of the crucifixion.

You will not find a religion called Judaism in any Scripture, not even in the imitation of Scripture by the Bible.

Answer 9

In accordance with the biblical flood and the modern population which would be much larger if humans had been around for 3 million years and if the flood never happened, plus human history which only goes back about 5000 years (because if modern man has been around for 100,000 years, why didn't he do anything like write or build something extraordinary?), I agree with the biblical time-period

Answer 10

The Jewish calendar starts from the birth of man, 5767 years ago

Answer 11

No. the world is as old as scientist say that it is. There are gaps in the Bible time line. We do not know how long Adam and Eve spent in the Garden of Eden. It could have been billions of years. At the time of Adam's and Eve's creation there was no disease or death in the world. Adam and Eve were created as immortal beings. It was only when sin entered the world that death and disease entered the world. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, then they were exposed to aging and disease and death.