Take the dinosaurs bones, which are dated to be around to Millions to Billions of years old.
But because christians are taught, that the earth is only 6000 yrs old, and the dinosaurs bones does not fit into their equation, the Christians goes on the attack.
Not realizing that God's word does indeed support that the earth is alot older than 6000 years old.
And everyone else, including yourself, will run with it, but still you can't figure how something that is Millions to Billions of years old, how does this fit into the earth as being 6000 years old?
That's because your running with what christians are being taught by their pastors and not what God teaches in his word.
You as a anthropologist, should know this, that you can not take something that Millions to Billions of years old and to fit into 6000 years old, it just will not fit or work.
Back when I was in the 8th and 9th grade science class's, when I first heard about the dinosaurs bones, that started me down the road to question what I was taught in the church about the earth is only 6000 years old.
I would ask myself, how does this work or fit with the dinosaurs bones that are dated to be Millions to Billions of years old.
That here on one side you have Christians and the other you scientist, one claiming one thing and then on the other one claiming another thing.
So I would reason this inside of myself, who's right and who's wrong. This lead me to only one who would and have the answers to all of this that is God in his word.
And behold, it's all there about that first earth age, of where the dinosaurs bones came from and alot of other things that are found here in the earth.
But what I would like you to do with all your expertise show how to fit Millions to Billions of years into 6000 years?
If you can do that maybe I will listen to what your trying to say?
Study up a bit, Faithofchristian.
Dinosaurs have not been around for billions of years.
In total, dinosaurs have flourished for about 135 millions years, starting from the beginning of the Triassic period, 231 million years ago, till the end of Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago.
The earliest Homo sapiens humans was dated around only 200,000 years ago.
As to the 6000 years, that come from calculating the reigns of kings of Judah, backward from the known historical date of capturing Jerusalem and destruction of the temple in 587 or 586 BCE, and generations of Genesis, down to Adam's creation.
1 Kings 6:1 give us the clue when Solomon's 4th year (c 967 BCE), it was 480 years to Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt (1447 BCE).
While Exodus 12:40-41 give us 430 years from exodus to Abraham's covenant (Genesis 15), shortly before Ishmael was born (1877 BCE); Abraham would be about 85 then.
So Abraham would be born in 1962 BCE.
Then you can use Genesis 5 and 11, to calculate the years between Adam's creation to Abraham's birth, which come up to 1948 AM (Anno Mundi).
So 1962 BCE + 1948 years = 3910 BCE for time of Adam's creation.
And that's how you would get 6000 years, when rounding it up.
But of course, I think all Genesis and Exodus are myths, so the numbers are really meaningless, because these events (creation, flood, Tower of Babel, the 3 patriarchs, Moses and invasion of Canaan) are not historical.
Edit:
(I think the main problem with calculating the timeline between Genesis and Exodus, is how you would interpret this passage, Exodus 12:40-41.
Put it too late, like when Jacob arrived in Egypt, that would mean Jochebed, daughter of Levi and mother of Moses, would have to be at least 261 years old (if not older) when she gave birth to Moses.
Put the date to Abraham's covenant, would mean she would be at least 56 years old (if not older) when she gave birth to Moses. Genesis never tell us how old Levi was when Jochebed was born, except there is a possibility that she was born in Egypt...we just don't know when she was born.)
