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frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So even if you’re working strictly from the bible, how the hell do you get 4000 years?

  You can’t. The “Young Earth” people are morons.

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• CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The original calculation (adding up all the ages in the genealogies in the Bible) was done a few hundred years ago, but all the young earth creationists I saw put the start at 4000 A.D., so 6000 years ago.

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  • Nakoichi@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    4000 A.D

    you mean BC?

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    • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that one!

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• blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because anti-evolutionists decided a myth that the Earth is only 4000 years old is the quickest way to refute claims of evolution.

  It’s not an argument one forms by observing evidence.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Bible has a long list of names with birthdays and who begat whom. It came from Irish archbishop and scholar James Ussher.

  If you believe in the Bible, you get a 4000 year old Earth.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ussher calculated 4004BC as the start of the universe, which would be about 6000 years ago.

    That’s my point. Most YEC point to 6000 years. Even within their own framework, I don’t see how you get to 4000 years. My best guess is they saw 4004BC and forgot that 1 BC was about 2000 years ago.

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    • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is exactly what it is. When everything you believe is made up, it’s easily to accidentally make up the wrong number and then believe that instead.

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is a very old Jewish Holiday which celebrates new year on a calendar starting with the creation of the Universe, only about 5000+ years, but even that is obscure af.

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