(October 27, 2018 at 8:50 pm)CDF47 Wrote:(October 27, 2018 at 8:42 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: 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.
Okay, let's take that as a baseline. Genesis states that Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day. Let's assume they were created at the end of the day, and to allow for the indeterminacy of the length of a day to God, let's say that a day to God is not 1,000 years, but 100,000 years, to err by two orders of magnitude. That still leaves us with an earth that was created less than a million years ago. So where are you getting this 4 billion years shit from?
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