(October 26, 2018 at 7:33 pm)CDF47 Wrote:

(October 26, 2018 at 6:05 pm)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: No it doesn't. It doesn't go into much detail about anything though does it?.. That's why we have old and young earth creationists.. That's why you lot can't agree on the basics of your religion, that's why we atheists are so confused about what all the fuss is about.

The Bible is not a science book.  It is not intended to give these sorts of details.  These details were discovered by science.

How do you know what the bible was intended to do? Are you God?

What would be great is if people could be temporarily banned for preaching. Clearly that wasn't the PD of this thread, yet that's what CDF is doing.

(October 26, 2018 at 5:59 pm)CDF47 Wrote:

(October 26, 2018 at 4:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Where in the bible do you find support for this belief?  Even if one takes the "a thousand years is as a day" passage as something more than a figurative statement, that still leaves the earth way too young according to the bible.

Where does the Bible state the Earth is young?

Genesis. Creation was seven days, during which Adam was created, and we know the generations of Adam. It's not hard to figure out.

What’s the deadline on god inspiring books?

(October 27, 2018 at 12:50 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:

(October 26, 2018 at 5:59 pm)CDF47 Wrote: Where does the Bible state the Earth is young?

Genesis.  Creation was seven days, during which Adam was created, and we know the generations of Adam.  It's not hard to figure out.

The generation of Adam is just including highlights.  Listed are great great great grandfathers, for instance.

(October 27, 2018 at 5:32 pm)CDF47 Wrote:

(October 27, 2018 at 12:50 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Genesis.  Creation was seven days, during which Adam was created, and we know the generations of Adam.  It's not hard to figure out.

The generation of Adam is just including highlights.  Listed are great great great grandfathers, for instance.

Are you doubting Bishop Ussher's calculations? Even if we add a humongous fudge factor you still don't get an earth that is billions of years old.

So I'll ask you again, what do you base your belief in an old earth upon, and how do you reconcile it with the bible?

(October 27, 2018 at 8:42 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:

(October 27, 2018 at 5:32 pm)CDF47 Wrote: The generation of Adam is just including highlights.  Listed are great great great grandfathers, for instance.

Are you doubting Bishop Ussher's calculations?  Even if we add a humongous fudge factor you still don't get an earth that is billions of years old.

So I'll ask you again, what do you base your belief in an old earth upon, and how do you reconcile it with the bible?

I believe Adam and Eve lived about 200,000 - 400,000 years ago in the Middle East.  I believe the generations highlighted in the Bible are just that "highlights."  I believe after the flood, the dates are more recent.