and was this enough time for man to colonize the entire world and make all of the different races we have in the world today?
2006-12-06 09:20:31 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A better question is how long did it take man to create God?
2006-12-06 09:23:30 · answer #1 · answered by Brain 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
A bishop, one James Ussher, came up with a biblical calendar quite some time ago, pegging the earth's creation as 4004 BC. By that calendar, yes, there would have been enough time to bring the world population to its present value: if each couple produced four surviving and reproducing offspring, it would take fewer than 32 generations (arbitrarily, 800 years) to do so. But that would not describe the origin of races. As it happens, Ussher's calendar put the great flood at 2836 BC, as I recall, but this suffers from the small problem that at least three civilizations existing and keeping written records before, during, and after that time seemed to have missed the interesting fact that they had all been wiped out.
Whence, then, the races? We now turn to the theory of evolution (which is now a proven fact). Differential evolution occurs whenever you have a separation of population. An obvious example is Australia, which has flora and fauna noticeably diferent from the rest of the world, due to its separation from the main land mass some 90 million years ago. If some people moved from Africa to Europe, and others to Asia, where they were subsequently isolated by distances and natural calamites (such as the ice ages), racial characteristics would be expected to have evolved, along the lines of what we now see.
2006-12-06 09:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is an concept out now that asserts that, bibilically speaking, that dinosaurs existed around the comparable time as adult males. Noah equipped the ark and dinosaurs have been relatively on the ark. i've got self assurance in case you bypass to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, there is an show in the organic background Museum on the keenness Play grounds which will clarify this actual concept. as far as a results of fact the age of the worldwide you may the two attempt to guesstimate based on the a while of the patriarchs of the old testomony.
2016-10-17 22:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by janovich 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fundamentalists, such as me, conclude by looking at the genealogies listed in the Bible that the earth could be anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 years old. The 3,000 year difference is do to the fact that many genealogies skip generations. There would have been plenty of time to populize the earth, twice actually. The Genesis Flood killed everyone on the planet except for Noah his wife, his three sons and his sons wives. The Genesis flood happened about 8,000 to 6,000 years ago.
2006-12-06 09:26:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
About 6000 years ago in the lower Tigris, Euphrates Valley. About the same time and place as the beginning of human history. There is some debate however.. Others will say it's more like 8000 years ago. Yes, to your second question. History has been continuous since.
2006-12-06 09:27:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The creation of man and the story of Adam and Eve are not necessarily the same thing, many fundamentalist think it does, but actually it doesn't. Men and women are created, before Adam is placed in Eden, Eve is cloned from Adam even later. It is possible/likely the Noah's flood story is a localized event.
2006-12-06 09:30:00 · answer #6 · answered by Paul K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to a Hebrew calculation, as of 3:00 PM today that would be 5,766 years, 3 months & 15 days. However, according to the Chinese calendar, it's about 3,600 years. Since there is no way Jewish society could have lived for 2,000 years without Chinese food, I'm going with the guy from Peking.
2006-12-06 09:27:45 · answer #7 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A little more than six thousand years ago. Plenty of time.
I also believe that Adam and Eve were geneticly more complex than we are allowing for so many races. This would be supported by the Second Law of Thermodynamics
2006-12-06 09:24:15 · answer #8 · answered by dmjrev 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We don't know. The creative days in Genesis chapter one had nothing to do with the creation of the planet. If you will notice in chapter one, verse 2 the earth was already in existence BEFORE the creative days started. Those "days" were large time periods that God used to prepare the earth for habitation. The earth could have been standing for millions of years before that.
2006-12-06 09:29:16 · answer #9 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not pay attention to all those old Jewish story's and myths.I love Jesus. and I only listen to my heart and only his words in the bible.in regards to his teachings.I only need to know what Jesus wonted for me to be like. I try to emulate Jesus. and except the Spirit of God into my life.There is One God ,One Spirit of God and a soul in each of us.excepting the Spirit of God into us and asking direction in our life's from it. and listening for the answers and trying to do Gods will is all that's truly important.what happened years ago doesn't matter to me in the least. it has no bearing on my relationship with God and Jesus and the holy Spirit.May God Bless you. and I hope you have a very Merry Christmas
2006-12-06 09:34:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
6 to 10 thousand years ago and yes it was enough time because
whether you believe in creation or not that's all the historical records indicate civilized man has been here
2006-12-06 09:26:39 · answer #11 · answered by royce r 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋