4 ms·
Taking the Bible at face value, Adam and Eve were created about 6000 years ago. At this time cities had already existed for thousands of years. So no, the Bible
by goto11 6y ago
Taking the Bible at face value, Adam and Eve were created about 6000 years ago. At this time cities had already existed for thousands of years. So no, the Bible did not get "the math down fairly well".
- rsynnott 6y agoHonestly, that's not even taking the Bible at face value. Attempting to date events in the Bible was pretty popular at one time, but it required a lot of special pleading and ignoring discrepancies (it's not like the Bible just says in the intro "this covers events from 4000BC to 22AD" or whatever; attempts at doing this mostly involve trying to infer it from ancestry and quasi-historical events mentioned), and isn't generally taken seriously by modern theologians.
- goto11 6y agoObviously the timeline in the Bible is ridiculous with people living for hundreds of years and so on. But if you take the genealogies at face value, this is the rough time scale since creation you end up with. Which is of course a good reason not to take the Bible at face value as historical overall (even if some of the parts are reasonably historical).
- Kye 6y agoA classic article in The Onion pokes fun at this: "Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World" https://www.theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-world-1819571221 https://www.theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-g...