(January 3, 2020 at 8:31 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Unfortunately, no, the christians got magic book wrong cover to cover, not just some bit about a messiah.
Mainstream jewish thought is dominated by the likes of Gaon and Maimonides. The emphasis is on the ethical rather than factual significance of the stories in old magic book. The creationism that your friend is involved with has nothing to do with any 19th century academic discussion. It's only tangentially related to the initial misapprehensions that created jesusism. It's a contemporary political strategy, meant to bolster a claim to social authority.
Islam, well...they're not at their best right now.
What is Gaon and Maimonides?
I was referring to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
"By the middle of the 19th century, Ussher's chronology came under increasing attack from supporters of uniformitarianism, who argued that Ussher's "young Earth" was incompatible with the increasingly accepted view of an Earth much more ancient than Ussher's. It became generally accepted that the Earth was tens, perhaps even hundreds of millions of years old. Ussher fell into disrepute among theologians as well; in 1890, Princeton professor William Henry Green wrote a highly influential article in Bibliotheca Sacra entitled "Primeval Chronology" in which he strongly criticised Ussher. He concluded: "
^^^^It is in the 19th century that evidence was accumulating that the Earth is extremely old: 1. The fossil record 2. evidence for species turning up for their environment
3. Thermodynamics calculations to determine the age of the Earth if initially, the surface was 1500 °C.
One person estimated the age to be 10 million y
One person estimated the age to be 20 million y
One person estimated the age to be 100 million y
The numbers were all over the place but none of them were anywhere near 6000 y.
