if you rly think about it... It took God 7 days to create earth... we can date back to 4000 BC wen adam was around.... then now its only 2006 AD... add the two and u get 6, 006 yrs old...not billions of yrs
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First, next time you read the bible try to do it when you are awake. According to the bible, God created the entire universe, including the earth, in 6 days.
Second, you have offered no evidence to support your contention that the earth is 6,006 years old and not billions of years old. All you have done is make a weak reference to a disproven ancient creation myth. Big whup.
Yeah, but....
The creation was supposedly in 4004BC, which makes planet Earth 6010 years old. Except that the monk who devised the BC/AD dating we use got it wrong, twice: he missed out zero (to be fair, it hadn't been invented yet), which makes 2006 the 6009th year since creation. And Exiguus's second error was an arithmetic mistake of 5 years. But I don't know if that was too many or to few, so that makes the Creation either 6004 or 6014 years ago....
xMinionX, practically all fundies fit that description. The only realistic exception to that rule is if the fundie is a recovering alcohol or drug addict, and people who happened to be fundamentalists helped him/her out and indoctrinated that person.
"UPON MY KNEES, O LORD, I SERVE THEE!!!"
Never expect too much from people who can't use contractions properly.
Stupidity may not be an excuse, but at least it's an explanation.
"we can date back to 4000 BC"
Yes we can, and also to almost 4,000,000,000 years ago showing the error of.....oh, why bother.
The story of the missing zero always puzzles me because there is no year zero. The first year was one and the one preceding it minus one. Zero is not a natural number in its own right because it means "nothing". You don't count apples or other objects beginning with the "zeroest apple" either. The same goes for years. The monk (not Bede but a Roman from the fourth century, forgot his name) made another error that put the thing off a few years, but I don't think it had anything to do with the zero
<<< You don't count apples or other objects beginning with the "zeroest apple" either >>>
I dunno, I see numbering from zero quite frequently (though that may just be because in many programming languages, arrays begin with index 0).
PS: It was Dionysius Exiguus (470-544) from what is now Romania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD
However the name year zero was used. It was however the year one BC that was called that. It was more of a political than an arithmatic notion, and it was the Venerable Bede who put an end to its usage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
Crosis , if you have four apples before you on the table and you count them beginning with zero, you'll end up with the number three. That is obviously an absurd way of counting apples. I suppose counting years is somewhat the same.
<<< Crosis, if you have four apples before you on the table and you count them beginning with zero, you'll end up with the number three. That is obviously an absurd way of counting apples. >>>
You'd be surprised how often it comes up in programming discussions. Counting tangible objects, not so much, though.
Then again, maybe it's just because programmers are generally rather odd folks.
I thought the Zero didn't exist in Mathematics prior to the High Middle Ages, at least not in Europe?
The Indo-Arabian system didn't reach Europe before the 11th century, and the Roman system didn't include a zero.
Dear Umk,OL,IsT,
What about the other 4 billion + years of geological history? You seem to have left it out.
P.S. I always thought it was the Mayans who were the first to introduce the idea of '0'.
omg, how stupid are you
close the pagesw of your bible cause it is blindsiding you.
not to mention if we go by your dates, you are missing approxomity 35-45?? years of jesus' life, not counted in either bc or ad
If you really think about it... I knew more grammar at 6 years of age, than you do now, I knew more English at the age of 12 than you do now, and English is my second language.
The rest is bullshit! Weren't there lots of people who allegedly lived to 900 years at that time. If there where just six of those kinds of generations, we have reached today.
What's an "yrs"?
We have historical reccords, people actually writing documents, or carving them into stone, or whatever, that dates tens of thousands of years back. Look at Chinese reccords, and Japanese, and Egyptian. Just because the US of A is just shy of 300 years old, doesn't mean the rest of the world is that young.
But, no one ever said one day for us is one day for god, it could be 5,000,000 years for him.
" ... if you rly think about it. ... "
I'm sorry I read that far.
People this stupid won't do well.
Show us any evidence for the time of Adam, other than the silly addition of a number of begats, please, then we can talk.
We can't even date the birth of Christ.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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