Ok, seriously, what grade are you in, kid? 6th? 7th?
You have been no where that doesn’t have fossilized sea shells or sand. It is really that simple.
The Bible teaches no such thing, and for the record, the earth is not millions of years old, but almost 5 billion. ** LOL…there is no way you could show that without some far reaching assumptions…LOL**
Give me an example of one of your “population growth models.” I’m willing to bet they all make some pretty ridiculous assumptions, and fail to take into account things like famines, plagues, natural disasters, and wars. And I would bet that those population growth models would not match reality in modern times for which we have correlating data to show what actually happened, for instance, population growth during the 19th century.
If you were to leave out the accounts of these disasters, then the number would what? grow or shrink?
Point to the scripture and verse that you assume I don’t believe based on our “age of the earth” discussion. I’m sorry; it is obvious you do not believe what the Bible says; otherwise there would be no discussion here…my apologies.
**Genesis 11 gives you the chronology from the Flood to Abraham. It starts out with the children of Noah…Shem, verse 10, goes right on down to Abraham, that’s 225 years. Okay? Six days, 1656 years, and 225 years…so something under 2000 years and you’re at Abraham.
Start in Genesis 12 with Abraham and go through the Old Testament historical books…Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles. Just proceed through those books and you have the chronology from Abraham to the Babylonian captivity…from Abraham to the Babylonian captivity…that would be 430 years in Egypt, 40 years in the wilderness, seven years conquering Canaan, 350 years of the Judges, 110 years of the United Kingdom under Saul, David and Solomon, 350 years under the divided kingdom of Judah and Israel, 70 years…350 years and then you have the Babylonian captivity, 70 years. And then you have the return and the rebuilding, 140 years. So, from Abraham to the return and rebuilding of Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the nation Israel you have about 1500 or so years if you add all that up.
Following the rebuilding and the restoration, you’re at the end now of the Old Testament, you’ve got 400 years of silence. So you have about 2000 years, we sort of started out from the creation to Abraham is about 2000 years. From Abraham to the New Testament is about 200 years. And from the beginning of the New Testament to now is about 2000 years.
Archbishop James Usher, a great scholar, by the way, lived from 1581 to 1656, added all the genealogical chronological records of Scripture and said that he felt that the creation occurred in 4004 B.C. Now, you know, the evolutionists just mock that. The world, the universe…6000 years old? But he was no doubt very close to being accurate.
And prior to Charles Darwin, any educated man who suggested that mankind was over 6000 years old was seen as a fool. All historical records fit in to that 6000 years. You can go back and study European history, you can go back and study the records, the Egyptian records, and they all go back no further than that. You say, “Well isn’t it possible that some names got skipped in the genealogies?” That’s one of the things you hear all the time. “Isn’t it possible that some names got skipped?”
Let me tell you; one very hard thing to prove is what got left out. That is very hard to prove. How can you say some other name should be in there? If it’s not there, it’s not there. Even if you add a few names that God left out of the genealogy of 5 or the genealogy of chapter 11, the history of Israel, that’s set, we know that. And the times from Christ to now, we know that. So if you’re talking about that first period of time and you want to give a little space to the genealogies, well, you can add a few hundred years here and there. **
