Earth is 10,000 Years Old In Christianity?
Earth is 10,000
Years Old In Christianity?
Young Earth
Creationists believe that the earth is
approximately 10,000 years old (1)
and believe that God created the Earth in six 24-hour days.(2)
(3)
as provided by (Genesis 1:1-20)
Although their evidence from The Bible is
strong, it has ironically backfired only in favour to work against them. Support for an Earth that was
created thousands of years ago declined among the scientists and philosophers
from the 18th century on-wards with the development of the Age
of Enlightenment, the scientific revolution, and new scientific discoveries. Also, if you believe in
dinosaurs you may potentially run a risk of a scorching and blazing hellfire.
George McCready
Price has regarded the Geologic Time-scale as "the devil's counterfeit
of the six days of Creation as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis."
Since the mid-20th century, young Earth
creationist have devised and promoted a pseudoscientific explanation called "creation
science" as a basis for a religious belief in a supernatural, geologically
recent creation. (4) Evidence from numerous scientific
disciplines contradicts Young Earth Creationism, showing the age of the universe
as 13.8 billion years, the formation
of the Earth as at least 4.5
billion years ago, and the first appearance of life on Earth as occurring at
least 3.5 billion years ago. Several Christian
Church leaders have attempted to calculate The Biblical Time of Adam and Eve to
create a calendar based off it.
Once such Christian was James Ussher, an Irish archbishop of Armagh and
Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. In contrast to YEC, he is now
considered an Old Earth Creationist. (6) Calculated the date of the Creation to have been nightfall on 22 October
4004 BC according to the proleptic Julian calendar.
(Other scholars, such as Cambridge academic, John Lightfoot, calculated their own
dates for the Creation.) The time of the Ussher
chronology is frequently
misquoted as being 9 a.m., noon or 9 p.m. on 23 October. See the related article on the chronology for a discussion of its claims and
methodology.
Ussher's work
was a project supporting Young
Earth Creationism, which holds that the universe was created, not billions of
years ago, but thousands. But while calculating the date of the Creation is
today considered a controversial activity, in Ussher's time such a calculation
was still regarded as an important task, one previously attempted by many
Post-Reformation scholars, such as Joseph
Justus Scaliger and physicist Isaac Newton. Ussher chose the Masoretic version, which claims an unbroken history of
careful transcription stretching back centuries — but his choice was
confirmed for him, because it placed Creation exactly four thousand years
before 4 BC, the generally accepted date for the birth of the 'Jesus' of the
Christian faith; moreover, he calculated, Solomon's temple was completed in the
year 3000 from creation, so that there were exactly 1000 years from the temple
to Jesus, who was supposedly the 'fulfillment' of the Temple. (7)
Biblical scholars today report evidence
that the first major comprehensive draft of Genesis was composed by the Yahwist in the late 7th or the 6th century BC,
during the Babylonian captivity,
or at the court of Solomon, c. 950 BC, with later additions made by the priestly source. (8) Young Earth
creationists have claimed that their view has its earliest roots in ancient
Judaism, citing, for example, the commentary on Genesis by Ibn
Ezra. The decline of support for a biblically literal young Earth during the
19th century was opposed by first the scriptural
geologists. (9)
Among the Masoretic creation estimates
or calculations for the date of creation Ussher's specific chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became
the most accepted and popular, mainly because this specific date was attached
to the King James Bible.(10)
The youngest ever
recorded date of creation within the historic Jewish or Christian traditions is
3616 BC, by Yom-Tov Lipmann
Heller in the 17th century. The Protestant
reformation hermeneutic inclined some of the Reformers,
including John Calvin and Martin
Luther,(11) and later Protestants toward a literal reading of the Bible as
translated, believing in an ordinary day, and maintaining this younger-Earth
view. (12)
Young Earth creationism directly
contradicts the scientific
consensus of the scientific community. A 2006 joint
statement of Inter-Academy Panel
on International Issues (IAP) by
68 national and international science academies enumerated the scientific facts
that young Earth creationism contradicts, in particular that the universe, the
Earth, and life are billions of years old, that each has undergone continual
change over those billions of years, and that life on Earth has evolved from a common primordial origin into the diverse forms observed in the
fossil record and present today.
For their part, Young Earth Creationists
say that the lack of support for their beliefs by the scientific community is
due to discrimination and censorship by professional science journals and
professional science organizations. Some common sense could go a long way. A
2011 Gallup survey reports that 30% of Americans
say the Bible is the actual word of God and should be interpreted literally, a
statistic which has fallen slightly from the late 1970s. 54% of those who
attend church weekly and 46% of those with a High School education or less take
the Bible literally.(13)
Young Earth creationists regard the
Bible as a historically accurate, factually inerrant record of natural history. As Henry
Morris, a leading Young Earth Creationist, explained it, "Christians who
flirt with less-than-literal readings of biblical texts are also flirting with
theological disaster." (14)
The young Earth
creationist belief that the age of the Earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old conflicts with the age
of 4.54 billion years measured using independently cross-validated Geo-chronological methods including radiometric
dating. (15)
The literal belief that the world's linguistic variety
originated with the tower of
Babel is pseudo-scientific, sometimes called
pseudo-linguistics, and it is contrary to what is known about the origin and history of languages. (16)
Young Earth creationists
reject the irrefutable geologic evidence that the strati-graphic sequence and radiometric dating of fossils proves the Earth is billions of years
old.
In his Illogical Geology,
expanded in 1913 as The
Fundamentals of Geology, George McCready Price argued that the occasionally
out-of-order sequence of fossils that are shown to be due to thrust faults made it impossible to prove any one
fossil was older than any other. His "law" that fossils could be
found in any order implied that strata could not be dated sequentially.
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