Explain, please.?

Question

Don't start flaming, this is actually on my mind and I'm..well, just curious...

If people supposedly lived 900+ year lives in the past, and the earth is uh..6000 years old... wouldn't there have been only three generations of people before the 'flood'? I don't re-eally think the earth populated itself quite that fast with two people having incestual relations with their children...Considering the /billions/ of people on earth today...I'm actually curious, does the bible correct or have an explanation for this anywhere?

I'll pass on the pastor.

-Atheist---

Answer 1

LOL. I love how logic can make the Bible sound so stupid. Thanks, dude!

Answer 2

Yes, there is proof in the Bible that it is possible. The oldest person in the Bible was Methuselah, (969 years), and he was before the flood. If you actually READ the Bible, you will find that people didn't have children right before they died, before the flood,their first children were born usually around the 150 year mark. After the flood, people started having children younger and younger. Noah's grandson was only 35 years old before his first child was born. Soon after that, life expectancies began to drop dramatically, and soon people were only living about 120 years, as opposed to 969. And, when you live as long as people did back then, there were plenty of opportunities to have at least 15 children. The Bible is never specific about how many children people had, it just says "and (insert name here) had other sons and daughters). If each of those 15 kids had 15 kids, there would be 225 more people in just two generations.

Answer 3

I'm sure if you give the christians time they will come up with a bible version of new events and explanations like they usually do... This one will include how their god makes evolution works as well.... that's how they fool people... questions arise against the bible and a new version is printed to absorb the inconsistencies with it a new religion is born.. people a so stuck in their ways that they forget to stop the old religions and so the dysfunction and arguments are carried within the religion themselves... but as if that's not enough then Muslim religions and Islamic religions same a Jewish appear to have no link to the bible but they are all linked... they just can't make the truth fit into it because in the end religion is not good for the earth, it was never part of evolutions plans...

Answer 4

You're assuming that the people were old and infertile by the time they were 50, but why would that be the case? If people lived longer AND were fertile for 1/2 or 2/3 of their life (as people are now) the earth would have populated much more quickly. For instance, 450 years after the flood, once people weren't living as long, Abraham's wife (Sarah) had a child while she was in her nineties.

Answer 5

There is a lot of problems with interpreting the age of the earth based on the number of people listed in the Bible and the other methods some denominations use. I think the earth is much older than 6000 years, but I am not at all sure it is as old as scientists claim because I don't understand the methods being used for establishing that age.

Answer 6

No it doesn't. The people who complied the Old Testament and the New Testament too for that matter, were used to their culture's numerology. Numbers to them stood for things and were never meant to be taken literally.

I know, I know a lot of zany people called fundamentalists like to holler and scream a lot about how you have to take everything in the bible literally, but that's baloney.

The numbers they dealt with in the bible were representing other things. When it says "40 days and 40 nights," that doesn't mean literally 40. 40 for those ancients symbolized a long time or a lot of something.

It was not meant to be taken literally.

Answer 7

You assumed wrong, please read Genesis and you will find out that there were more than three generations from Adam to Noah.

The Bible told us that there was no precipitation and a mist cover the atmosphere thus preventing the sunrays to enter the Earth. As we all know those rays speeds up our life. No pollution and the Bible says men live up to 600-900 years old. Isn't that enough to have population explosion...

Answer 8

the earth is 6000 years old???

Dearie, the earth is about 5 billion years old ....

hello ??

let's get out the calculator and do the math ...

Yes ... there were DEFINITELY more than 3 generations of people before the flood ...
and there are about 6.6 billion people on earth today

Answer 9

Adam and Eve followed God's command to be fruitful and multiply. Eve likely conceived every nine months for many years. They likely had hundreds of children. This represents a geometric rather than an arithmetic progression.

LOOKIT:

With each female having only two children = 2 becomes 4 becomes 8 becomes 16 becomes 32 becomes 64 becomes 128, and so on.

Answer 10

Actually, there's excellent indication, and tons of tradition, to indicate that the references to long life-spans were nothing more that idiomatic expressions of the length of a TRIBE'S lifespan, the tribe having the name of it's founder. Lining up the Bible "Patriarchs" with the actual historical tribes shows a clear connection between the two.

The Bible is correct. The Western Christian interpretation of the Bible without a grounding in Aramaic idioms and Jewish traditions is incorrect.

Answer 11

First the Bible does not say the age of the earth.
Second 900 years allows for many children and generations of children a generation is not a lifetime. Adam was created an adult and lived 930 years he fathered an entire civilization.