We do not know how long 6000 years really is.
That is the problem.
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Hmmm, let's take some conservative figures: It's 72,000 months, 2,191,500 days (give or take, I can't be bothered to work out the leap years), 52,596,000 hours, 3,155,760,000 minutes or 189,345,600,000 seconds,,,,,, more or less. Yep, I think I know how long 6000 years really is.
Well, it appears that juvenissun needs to take off their shoes just to get to 20. 6000 is a long way off, and if god intended us to count that high, he would have given us 3000 fingers and 3000 toes.
oh, and its
72000 Months
EDIT:
Cabraxas beat me to it, only because I was bothered to figure out the leap years
**Hey Zeus & Cabraxas, I just did your calculations before I read all posts...I'm removing them to avoid redundancy. But, aren't calculators and calendars great things!**
juvenissun, are you are attempting to argue that more than 2,000 years ago days were longer than 24 hours? If that is the case, it would do a lot to destroy your whole Sunday thing, since it came about as being the lords day since god rested on the 7th day. If days were more than 24 hours, how, exactly do you determine the 7th day of rest, and worship?
@Hey Zeus
Shit. He has to unzip to get to 11.
A few years ago a friend of mine moved to a little podunk town down south. With him and his girlfriend the population soared to 35, and the tooth count to over 100. Everybody lived right on the highway, except for the inbred family that lived at the end of the one side street, an unnamed dirt road that branched off the highway, and necessitated the only stop sign in town. Nobody ever bothered to name the section of the highway as it went through this town, it was just "the road". He asked for, and got, a post office box, in the store - p.o. box #3.
so, I guess I am wrong in assuming that 6000 years, means 6000 years. So I am wrong in assuming that it is 2190000 days 52560000 hours, 3153600000 minutes and 189216000000 seconds?
it's 666 years multiplied by 9.009,009,009 - more or less.
Definitely it's Satanic. The world/universe, therefore was created by the Devil and his Evil, and all matter is therefore intrinically Evil, including all fundies.
It's about 120 times the span of a 50-year-old's existence.
600 decades, 60 centuries, approximately 10% of the radiocarbon window of accuracy.
And judging from current news, about one-sixth of the proven age of the Australian aboriginal culture.
We do not know how long 6000 years really is.
What's with the "We "? You don't know how long 6000 years really is.
Don't assume that I'm an idiot just because you are.
Hey juvenissun,
I have an assignment for you.
Step 1: I want you to open your wallet and pull out a $1 bill. This dollar represents one year.
Step 2: Now I want you to start collecting $1 bills. When you get to $6000.00, you'll have a visual representation of 6000 years.
Step 3: I want you to package up those 6000 $1 bills and sent them to me so that I too can see a representation of 6000.
Whenever you forget what 6000 years is, I want you to re accomplish the above steps, paying particular attention to step 3.
When this project is all done, "WE" will have an understanding of what 6000 years is.
LOL @ Arctic Knight
That is a great idea :)
If I had to guess I'd say that 6,000 years was approximately 6,000 years. I guess you are one of those people that majored in miracles, not math.
I'm gonna ring in here and add some more numbers Juvenissum prolly won't understand, but here goes anyway-
6,000 years is
6 milleniums
It's two thousand short of the number of American soldiers who've died in Iraq to date.
It's approx. 9000 (give or take a few thousand) fewer than the number of Iraqis who've died in the war to date.
Wrap your head around those numbers, fundy.
Well shyucky dang darnit he's right! Not one of mah friends can count to over twenty, even with their shoes and socks off! I can count a little higher on account of mah parents bein' brother 'n' sister but I still don't think I'm anywhere near close to 6000, that number must just be another one o' dem eebil librull lies.
**tic, tac, tic, tac**
Oh, my, but ... what is this???
a reliable mean to messure time? who would have though....
I felt sure that when I read this comment in context, it'd turn out he really meant something like "We don't really appreciate how long a period of time 6,000 years is. Long enough for a village to become an Empire and then crumple and fall again. And then another. And another. Without any of them being contemporaneous.
Well, to be fair, I for one have often complained that the creationism crowd never comes up with anything new. Juevnissun's post may be stupid, but you have to admit, its different.
"We do not know how long 6000 years really is.
That is the problem."
6000 years = 1.89341556 × 10^11 seconds. No problem. next question.
Riddle me this, juvenissun. If according to Genesis, (and you Bible literalists) the Earth is 6000 years old, and looks like this:
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Then it would've been impossible for Sputnik 1 in 1957, to orbit the Earth, never mind in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts brought back from the Moon, this:
image
Known as the 'Genesis Rock' - and for good reason. After it was analysed, it was found to be exactly the same age as the Earth: 4.5 billion years old.
One more gap filled. One more part of religious 'belief' destroyed, and thus your so-called 'God' becoming less & less relevant in more & more peoples' lives.
And that's the problem. For you fundies at least.
-.- by that logic, we dont even know how long one year is. Cause appearantly, for some people, the time measurement known as a "year" has yet to be defined.
I kind of thought it was 6000 years.
You know that space between December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2012? Yeah, like that. Only 6,000 of them.
About 250-300 generations.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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