From many posts, mostly young creationists, I read that they consider the earth to be around 6000 years old. Yet, I cant seem to find it in the bible. Does anyone know who did the calculations to come up with that age?
2007-06-07 15:28:39 · 13 answers · asked by leikevy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
nik - its not carbon dating, its radioactive dating. carbon dating's half life is too fast to be accurate.
2007-06-07 15:51:04 · update #1
Google: < "Bishop Ussher" > (James, BTW) He's the Irishman who did the initial "calculations", to the year.
Then Sir James Lightfoot improved that calculation to 9 AM Oct 3, 4004 BC. ... ( 9:00 AM??? Please! It was 8:57:48!)
THE REAL ORIGIN, HOWEVER, IS ~4,550,000,000 BC, after ~500,000 years accretion by gravity on rubble, dust, etc..
2007-06-07 15:31:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not entirely though .. You see, not all Christians realize that there is absolutely no contradiction between science and the Bible. If you try to look it up and examine each of the events one by one, you can readily see that the devine ceation described in Genesis 1 is very similar to the chain of events that constitute the Big Bang Theory. "Let there be light! and there was light" ---- that, and the expansion of a great mass of space from a single primordial hot and dense initial condition --- can be interpreted as, well, different sort of discriptions referring to the SAME event in history ---About 13.7 Billion years ago. And as for the theory of evolution, it doesn't really contradict the divine creation either. One must not interpret the Bible literally. I, myself am a Christian. And If I'm asked whether I'm a proponent of the Divine Creation or The Different Theories generally accepted by science today, I would definitely say without hesitation, BOTH .....
2016-05-19 08:10:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent Man is 6000 years old, using the dates of Birth and death prescribed in the bible from Adam forward to the birth, baptism and death of the Christ.
BUT, the planet earth was here for millenniums before man was,
If you read the account in Genesis of what was created first, second , third etc.
It will reconcile with the scientific version of first ,.,second and third, etc,
The Bible also stated that a Thousand years is but a DAY in the eye of God. So who knows how long each period before man lasted????
But as far S THE Bible GOES, REALLY IT IS AN INSTRUCTION MANUEL FOR humans SO IT STARTED WITH THE FIRST HUMANS. Remember, when they were perfect they were suppose to live forever. So a slow decline in health and imperfection could be a thousand years for Adam and Eve and less and less as their children got farther from perfection.
Yet with names and dates of birth and death given in the bible, Plus Historical events to match time to, we can accurately see the progression of Bible times for Humans.
2007-06-07 16:09:02 · answer #3 · answered by bugsie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you calculate the period of time from when we know certain scripture was written, and the using the ages of the individuals whose ages are list in Genesis, you can approximate how old the earth is. The bilble doesnt say, and Job says nobody was there except God, so there is no REAL point in arguing.
Honestly I dont know what to believe about that.
If anyone does know where the bible says 6000 yrs please tell me.
2007-06-07 15:36:40 · answer #4 · answered by walked365 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I don't remember. Watch "What the bleep do we know". Micheal Ledwith speaks of what you are looking for. The man was a theologin, and made his calculations according to the ages of the men in the bible. 6000 years ago sounds about right. Obviously we know that the earth is much older than this.
2007-06-07 15:34:54 · answer #5 · answered by God!Man aka:Jason b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The whole 6000 thousands year old thing was calculated by an Irish Bishop named James Ussher, look 'im up
2007-06-07 15:32:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
don't know. The Bible isn't meant to be a science textbook. Rather shows us that God is the creator and how to attain salvation in Christ Jesus.
Genesis mentions that Adam and his familiy domesticated animals, farmed, used tools, etc. which didn't come around until 12,000-7,000 B.C.
2007-06-07 15:31:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know what they did. They added up all the "begats" and that gave them approximate time frames. It comes to 6000-10000 years.
2007-06-07 15:36:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
someone read the part of the bible where it said so and so lived so many years and had this many kids, who lived so long. they just assumed that the bible didn't skip generations.
2007-06-07 15:43:48 · answer #9 · answered by Jedi Tabby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a guess made by bronze-age tribesman sitting in mud huts... And it HAS to be more accurate than anything science can come up with...
2007-06-07 15:34:20 · answer #10 · answered by HONORARIUS 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋