You're not buying into a story that a 500 plus year old man and his sons built a wooden boat that housed and fed two of every critter on the planet for 40 days and nights? Or a guy named Methuselah lived to be 969 years old?
How did you come to the conclusion that the earth is only 6,000 years old according to the Bible? I've only heard that stated in the movie, Inherit the Wind.
Created Kinds (Baraminology)
God made living things to reproduce according to their kind. The taxonomic science of baraminology seeks to classify modern and fossil organisms within their original kinds.answersingenesis.org
The Bible’s first use of this word (Hebrew: min) is found in Genesis 1 when God creates plants and animals “according to their kinds.” It is used again in Genesis 6 and 8 when God instructs Noah to take two of every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal onto the ark and also in God’s command for the animals to reproduce after the Flood.
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So if there were only a kind of dinosaur aboard the Ark, it had to be the ancestor of the hundreds or thousands of the different dinosaurs we see in museums today. But since the Earth is only 6,000 years old, modern theories about evolution will have to be rethought.
Rumors...
There was an Anglican bishop who counted all the 'generations' in the Bible & came up with some number of years around 6,000. For more details, try the Google.
Tell him, not me.
And that is the lineage of mankind, not the age of the earth...
Ask Ken Ham. Logic is not involved when we talk about things like the Ark.
No one punched a time clock at the start of the Universe.
Logic is involved...try it sometime...
Does not answer the question. I think the creationists believe the world was created in 6 24-hour days. No time cards, though.
And they could be wrong...
Run that by Ken Ham. He's better at this kind of discussion.
Check with Ken Ham on that. Clocks didn't get invented until much later.
He ain't here but you are...now how about that logic?
Logic dictates that Noah's Ark is a fairy tale.
C'mon Jack...I know you're smart enough to figure it out...is generations talking about the age of the earth or mankind? Which is it?
Daisy said:
That would be preposterous and no one I know believes that the earth has been around for 6,000 years. One could make the argument that God created light and dark on the first day but did not create the sun until the 4th day. It is possible that when the sun was created, it didn't have a 24-hour day. We don't know and so the animals that walk on land might have been around for a long time before the 24 hour day.
Not qualified? Well, allow me to help you out...
A group of scribes changed some numbers to make it look like Shem was Melchizedek. Instead of 30 years etc., originally it was 130. So the Earth is 6600 years old, but read on.
The ark is a common pastime across Creation.
2807 B.C. a three-mile wide meteor hit the South Indian Ocean making an eighteen-mile wide crater and everybody wished they had an ark and wrote stories.