We can’t know this date for sure, though there are some hints in the Bible and in Creation to give us a general number.
If you take all the ages of all the men when their mentioned son was born and add them up you get a time for Creation at roughly 6000 bc. This is the youngest the earth could be. However, the odds of each child being born on his father’s birthday is slim at best, so we should add partial years into the date. Also, the Bible often calls grandsons the sons of their grandfathers. It is possible these lists of fathers and sons has a few grandson/grandfather relationships. This would also stretch the date. However, you can’t stretch it more than a couple of centuries without making the whole list irrelavent. So we could safely say the Bible says the world is around 6000-8000 years old.
Tree ring dates, ice flow dates, lunar dust depths, and several other scientific measures tell us the earth could not possibly be more than a million years and is closer to 10,000 at most.[1] So we can put the Creation Account at 6000-10,000 bc. I lean towards no more than 7000bc.
[1] See the many good books on the subject at the “Creation Research Institute” for a more in-depth discussion on the science supporting creation and a young earth.
If you take all the ages of all the men when their mentioned son was born and add them up you get a time for Creation at roughly 6000 bc. This is the youngest the earth could be. However, the odds of each child being born on his father’s birthday is slim at best, so we should add partial years into the date. Also, the Bible often calls grandsons the sons of their grandfathers. It is possible these lists of fathers and sons has a few grandson/grandfather relationships. This would also stretch the date. However, you can’t stretch it more than a couple of centuries without making the whole list irrelavent. So we could safely say the Bible says the world is around 6000-8000 years old.
Tree ring dates, ice flow dates, lunar dust depths, and several other scientific measures tell us the earth could not possibly be more than a million years and is closer to 10,000 at most.[1] So we can put the Creation Account at 6000-10,000 bc. I lean towards no more than 7000bc.
[1] See the many good books on the subject at the “Creation Research Institute” for a more in-depth discussion on the science supporting creation and a young earth.
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