The Tower of Babel

[possibletarian]

Now your ignorance is showing. This "random guy"


Basically the William Lane Craig of his day. That's not to defend his arguments, or to say he was right, but to throw him under the bus as "some random guy" is incredibly dishonest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher

He is random.

The only authority I'll accept on whether the bible states the earth is 6000 years old... is the bible, I made that pretty clear.

Huggy, do you take day's in the bible to mean literal days ?

In the bible we have Adam's age (when he dies), then a list of descendants from that point from a biblical perspective (taking a day as a thousand years) we can work out that that the earth is no more than around 12,000 years old.

If the word 'day' means an undefined amount of time, then why have them at all ?

It is true that there is no timespan given for the earth itself, some interpretations of genesis have the Lord almost stumbling across a watery planet and deciding to create, but that does not fit in with the stars and light being later created. Lets face it, to use the bible as any reliable textbook on how the earth came to be just is not compatible with any science we know.