the bible has a chronology that allows for a methodical count back to the beginning of human history using its references to certain large periods of time.
That's Ussher's claim, yes. And the vast majority of christians don't believe it.
And if we assume the claim is true, and we then match up the book against reality, we see that reality shows the book is incorrect.
The calandar we use was not invented thousands of years ago...its fairly recent. Thats why dates prior to the first century are 'B.C.E' have to be counted backwards from known events of our common era. And biblical chronology works exceptionally well this way. To get an accurate date for the flood of Noahs day for example, you can count the years between some of the bibles major events that are known also in secular sources. The year 539 B.C.E. is supported by various historical sources as the year for the overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus of Persia and this is a good event that can be used to trace back other major events recorded in the bible including the flood of Noahs day and the creation of the first man.
And regardless which data you come up with for that flood, once you test its predictions against reality, you see that the predictions don't check out, which means that flood never occurred.
And i guess if you believe in the evolutionary threory that the human race began as some kind of monkey,, then sure, they have been here for hundreds of thousands of years.
That humans are primates and share ancestors with the other primates (and by extension the other mammals, vertebrates, eukaryotes, etc...), is not a theory but a genetic
fact.
The
mechanism that drives evolution is theory.
That we share ancestors with chimps is a fact. A fact, which is explained by the theory.
If the theory is wrong, the facts remain what they are. Humans and chimps share ancestors. Regardless if evolution by natural selection is accurate or not. (it is, by the way)
Every scientific theory is "unproven".
"Proof" is for mathematics. The natural sciences works with
evidence instead.
really and it can never be proven because its just a theory about something no one saw happen
It can never be proven because of the very nature of what a scientific theory
is.
You should read up on scientific jargon.
Evolution is Not Just a Theory: home
You can believe that if you feel its the most likely senario though.
It is not just the most likely scenario, it is the
only plausible and supported scenario.
It's explanatory power is true the roof and virtually unmatched in all of science even.
It actually is not at all a stretch to say that evolution theory is one of the best supported theories in all of the natural sciences.