(October 26, 2018 at 8:50 pm)CDF47 Wrote:(October 26, 2018 at 7:37 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Right here:
How long were the days of Genesis 1?
That doesn't include a verse indicating the age of the universe and Earth.
The Biblical authors were capable of some limited addition, and no doubt, they assumed that their readers were capable of such, also. Fact is that absolutely no one prior to the Enlightenment in Christian Europe thought that the Earth was of immense age:
Wikipedia -- History of Geology
You are, of course, free to continue in your ex post facto "reasoning" all that you want. As far as I am concerned, the Bible is no more "inspired" than a typical Starbucks coffee cup.