One hot topic to many christians is how old the earth really is and are the 7 days in genesis literal. Well one interesting passage in the gospel of luke shows Jesus ancesters all the way to adam the first male human. In all 77 people times that by 100 and you get 7,700. Now those people lived up to various years some to 50, 35, adam and noah lived passed a 100 so this is a rough estimate. Just a little something ive been thinking about discuss
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Fundamentalist readers of Scripture turn handsprings pretending to themselves and others that the creation account in Genesis 1 and the creation account in Genesis 2 and subsequent chapters do not conflict.
But they do conflict.
Because of this and other internal difficulties in the accounts, which Fundamentalist readers of Scripture also turn handsprings ignoring, in my opinion the ages of the pre- and post-flood patriarchs in Scripture have zero historical value. Zero.
It’s not a question of God’s “years” in the creation accounts meaning something other than 365.25 days each. I don’t think that God’s “years” in the creation accounts have any meaning at all, historically.
Reality is jammed with evidence that the Earth is vastly older than Scripture provides.
My favorite piece of evidence is a string of extinct underwater volcanoes about 1,500 miles long ending in the current Hawaian Island chain. 1,500 miles long = 7,920,000 feet long = 95,040,000 inches long. If we assume crustal plate movement over the hotspot in the mantle which generated the volcanoes at 2 inches per year, that generates a time frame of 47,000,000 years just to generate the chain.
If the Earth were actually created in 7,000 B.C., then the Earth is only 9,000 years old. 95,000,000 inches -:- 9000 years equals a crustal plate movement rate of about 10,500 inches per year!!! The world would never have stopped shaking!!!
Another wonderful piece of evidence is the “Lie in the Sky Starlight Argument.”
There’s no doubt about it…relative to us, light in a vacuum always travels about 186,290 miles per second.
At that speed, light from the nearest star took a little over 4 years to get here from where the star was when the light from the star which we see in our telescopes began its trip a little over 4 years ago.
Some of the stars in the sky are so vastly far away that the light from those stars must have been traveling through space for millions of years, contradicting the creation accounts.
Fundamentalists answer this objection by saying that God must have created the light seeming to come from those stasrs in-place, so that the light never really originated from the stars, it only appears to be.
But this creates a new problem – supernovas.
In 1987, mankind watched a star violently explode in one of the galactic clouds about 70,000 light years away.
That means that the explosion actually took place about 70,000 years ago, and the light finally reached here 70,000 years later, in 1987.
But if the Universe is only 9,000 years old, then what I just said is impossible. Fundamentalists would have to say that the light of the star explosion, or supernova, was buried in the “fake star light” light stream created by God in-place in space, 9,000 years ago.
But that means that since the end of the light stream is the supernova light, then the star never existed!!!
Voila! A lie in the sky!
The Fundamentalist view of Scripture – that it is historical down to the jot and tittle, thus requires that God be a liar!
There are other arguments built into nature – for example, the radioactivity by-products evidence. For example, half of the Uranium 238 in any given deposit steadly breaks-down into Lead 206 over a period of about 4.5 billion years.
Low and behold, on the average, in the world, the ratio of Uranium 238 to Lead 206 in Uranium-bearing rock is about 50/50, suggesting that, indeed, the Earth is about 4.5 billion years of age.
Fundamentalists would have to say that that, too, is a “lie” built by God in the ground, if the time in Genesis is historically accurate.
