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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThe 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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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThe 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.
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.
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.