https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology There are long chronologies in Genesis that include, "A lived f

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology There are long chronologies in Genesis that include, "A lived for X years and begat B. B lived for Z years and at C." If you assume these are contiguous and precise, and that the meaning of "year" hasn't changed, and that Adam was "born" on day 6 of creation, and the universe was created 6*24 hours before that, then you can calculate when various Biblical events happened -- including when the world was made. Ussher made his estimate in the 1600s; according to that Wikipedia article, Rabbi Jose ben Halfata made an estimate as far back as the 2nd century AD. But I'm pretty sure even in Ussher's time, there were lots of Christians who said that those kinds of calculations weren't necessarily useful or accurate: that the book of Genesis wasn't trying to teach people Geology, but Theology. Read through the Babylonian creation myth [1], in which the Earth is created by the carcass of a murdered god ripped in half and humans are made from the droplets of blood of another god "to serve the gods", and ask yourself: "What is the world like? What is my place in it as a normal human being?" Then read Genesis 1 and ask yourself the same questions. You'd reach quite different conclusions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1