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35,000 year old Venus

Azakel

Azakel

Liebe ist für alle da
Enoch07 said:
Funny enough I never met one. So thats why I ask how you came about this "knowledge".
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Well I'm sure that the OP using 7000 year is just an example, but there are many YEC. Hell we've had a few on here, you're going to tell me you have never even heard of YEC.

Note: YEC stands for Young Earth Creationist
 
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Tristesse

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Enoch07 said:
Where does everyone get this "The earth is only 7000 years old" bit from. It is not Biblical. So why is it mentioned so much?

P.S. That's a cool carving though. The figurines of fertility god/goddess' are always pretty cool.
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Well, supposedly when you add the ages of the people mentioned in the bible, you get a rough estimate of about 10,000 years old. Thats where it comes from.
 
Enoch07

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
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themadhair said:
This is the chap to blame - James Ussher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I refuse to believe that someone living in the US has never heard of biblical creationism (otherwise known as young earth creationism). Seriously, I believe you are trolling. I’ve encountered some on this very site for bleeding sake.
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Oh I have heard of it. But I never met anyone that took it seriously. Just a bunch of rubbish to be honest.
 
Trey of Diamonds

Trey of Diamonds

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Enoch07 said:
That does not make sense. Nowhere in the Bible does it say how old the earth is at all. So I ask again. Where do people get this info that the earth is only 7000 years old?
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Sorry, I've never understood it either. I've also heard 12,000 years thrown out there too.
 
Enoch07

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
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No clue. Since science can estimate the earth being 4.5 billion years old or what not, so I can accept that nps. But the Bible does not say how old the earth is at all, and it upsets me when people think that it does.
 
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themadhair

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Tristesse said:
How they come to that conclusion, is if you add the ages of the people mentioned in the bible, and add it to present day, you get roughly 10-12 thousand years.
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That isn’t it. Doing the biblical genealogies gives an age around 4,000BC. Where the 10-12 thousands years comes from seems to be rather arbitrary. I wonder was it chosen because it is just outside the dendrochronological record which is one of the strongest pieces of dating evidence we have?
 
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Tristesse

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themadhair said:
That isn’t it. Doing the biblical genealogies gives an age around 4,000BC. Where the 10-12 thousands years comes from seems to be rather arbitrary. I wonder was it chosen because it is just outside the dendrochronological record which is one of the strongest pieces of dating evidence we have?
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If you do the bible genealogy it is 4,000 years, but if you take into consideration the period of time it was written and add the 4,000. You get roughly 10,000
 
Enoch07

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
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Research the Gap Theory. Which I find interesting and feel is kinda what is really going on as far as the earths age is concerned. But not even the Gap Theory gives an exact age of the earth.
 
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themadhair

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Tristesse said:
If you do the bible genealogy it is 4,000 years, but if you take into consideration the period of time it was written and add the 4,000. You get roughly 10,000
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The dude who first did the calculation was only an hour up the road from where I live. His basic chronology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus God makes the world at around 6pm on 23rd October 4004BC. Noah experiences some terrible rain at around 2348BC and decides to create a menagerie. Moses steals half the Egyptian population in 1491BC. Jesus H, Christ is born in 4BC.

If you have a biblical genealogy for the 10-12 thousand years I’d like to see it.
 
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Tristesse

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themadhair said:
The dude who first did the calculation was only an hour up the road from where I live. His basic chronology: God makes the world at around 6pm on 23rd October 4004BC. Noah experiences some terrible rain at around 2348BC and decides to create a menagerie. Moses steals half the Egyptian population in 1491BC. Jesus H, Christ is born in 4BC.

If you have a biblical genealogy for the 10-12 thousand years I’d like to see it.
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Sorry, I was mistaken, it's more like 6,000 years. The genealogy. So, I have no idea where these other people get their dating methods from.
 
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themadhair

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I’m still wondering is it to do with the dendro. Nothing whatsoever to support my guess, but it is the dendro.
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
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Enoch07 said:
No clue. Since science can estimate the earth being 45 billion years old or what not, so I can accept that nps. But the Bible does not say how old the earth is at all, and it upsets me when people think that it does.
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4.5 billion years, not 45 billion. ^_^

YECs bug me, too.

But they believe what they believe, and there's nothing to be done about it.
 
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