If Adam and Eve were created 6000 years ago....?

Hi, the Bible never says that Adam and Eve were created 6000 years ago. Oh, by the way, I am a Christian as well as a scientist and I believe in the written Word of the LORD.

Of course, many Christians think that the world was created only 6000 years ago, because they calculate it from Genesis Chapter 5. But if you read the verse 5 of chapter 5, it says that "So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died." (NKJV). Note that the verse specifically says that the days Adam LIVED. Why is that important? If you read for all others, the verse says "So all the days of ----- were --- hundred and ---- years; and he died." NIV does not translate it well, of course. Note that for no one else, the Bible says the word "lived".

It may look inconsequential, but I believe that not a single letter or word in the Bible is inconsequential. So, what is so important about Adam, that he gets a different treatment? To answer that, we have to think about one thing: how old was Adam when God created him? Was he born an infant? Of course not. So, how old was he? No one knows. He could be 21, 25, 30.... it does not matter. Next, how long were Adam and Eve in the Eden Garden? One day, one week, one month, one year, or for a long time? Again no one knows. It could be thousands of years, or even millions of years. The time starts only when they sinned. Not before that. So, preaching that the world was created only 6000 years ago is nothing but a misinterpretation of the Bible.

Do you understand the methods used in dating things like that?

There are a few of us who are willing to admit that the dating methods used are nowhere near 100% reliable. A lot of the dates are arrived at with the use of several assumptions.

Figuring out the time of death of a murder victim is a lot easire than figuring the age of remains that are 1000's of years old

Gen.1:26,31, Gen.5:3, Adam created to age 130, to age 930, Gen.5:5.

So from Adam is the subject, to Terah son #19, to Abraham son #20,

Matt.1:1-17. Jesus son #61, 1Cor.15:22-28,51-53, "As in Adam all

die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,"... heavenly first, earthly

next. Rev.20:1-6, Rev.20:12,13, until all evil is gone, Rev.20:7-10, 21:

8; then all is made new. Rev.21:1-5.

This is the subject, that is all.

Most of the dating are done by C dating.

Carbon-14 decays with a halflife of about 5730 years by the emission of an electron of energy 0.016 MeV. This changes the atomic number of the nucleus to 7, producing a nucleus of nitrogen-14. At equilibrium with the atmosphere, a gram of carbon shows an activity of about 15 decays per minute.

The low activity of the carbon-14 limits age determinations to the order of 50,000 years by counting techniques. That can be extended to perhaps 100,000 years by accelerator techniques for counting the carbon-14 concentration.

They are not that old. All the dating methods used by the scientists are not scientific. Please read the documentation on the dating methods used.

Wishing does not make it so!

religion is just a way people use to explain things they lack of knowing, I'm not religious, and watch in the future people will laugh at the fact we believed in stores

They are "hominids", they "look like" Man.

YECs are nuts!

The were put there by the devil to test your faith. Please give me 10% of your wealth now.

Thanks.