Nightfoot92,
You wrote:
Genesis was written to people who knew how long a day is so that is a moot point. Furthermore, the Jews for thousands of years maintained the earth was about 6,000 years old because that is how the context of the Hebrew text reads. See: http://creation.com/creation-days-and-or...-tradition and http://creation.com/syntax-in-genesis-1
Next, how many assumptions does radiocarbon dating rely on when it posits long ages? How many anomalies are there to the old age paradigm? Are there over 100? See: http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
You wrote:
Quote:The ancient Isralite/Hebrew day is calculated from and to sunset - not dawn not midnight. How can a literal day begin at sunset before the sun is created?
Genesis was written to people who knew how long a day is so that is a moot point. Furthermore, the Jews for thousands of years maintained the earth was about 6,000 years old because that is how the context of the Hebrew text reads. See: http://creation.com/creation-days-and-or...-tradition and http://creation.com/syntax-in-genesis-1
Next, how many assumptions does radiocarbon dating rely on when it posits long ages? How many anomalies are there to the old age paradigm? Are there over 100? See: http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
