Originally posted by RJHindsI wonder whether you accept the eyewitness accounts and testimonials that Joe Smith found some golden plates in New York State containing the raw text of what he later (allegedly) translated into the Book of Mormon. The witnesses are named as:
Creationists use eyewitness and historical accounts in dating rocks and fossils.
Oliver Cowdery
David Whitmer
Martin Harris
Christian Whitmer
Jacob Whitmer
Peter Whitmer, Jun.
John Whitmer
Hiram Page
Joseph Smith, Sen.
Hyrum Smith
Samuel H. Smith
Originally posted by moonbusNo
I wonder whether you accept the eyewitness accounts and testimonials that Joe Smith found some golden plates in New York State containing the raw text of what he later (allegedly) translated into the Book of Mormon. The witnesses are named as:
Oliver Cowdery
David Whitmer
Martin Harris
Christian Whitmer
Jacob Whitmer
Peter Whitmer, Jun.
John Whitmer
Hiram Page
Joseph Smith, Sen.
Hyrum Smith
Samuel H. Smith
Originally posted by sonhouseYou may be mistaken about the basis for the belief that the Earth is about 6,000 years old, at least asfaras as Protestants are concerned. Bishop James Ussher (1581 - 1656) published a monumental work, titled Annals, in which he calculated that the creation of the world was accomplished on 23d Oct 4004 BC. How he did it was by adding up the ages of the patriarchs listed in the OT (all those long lists of who begat whom) supplemented by various dates known from Persian and other sources, such as the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. For more, see:
... Your 6000 year old Earth is a fantasy generated at its heart by ancient Egyptian mythology sticking around to this very day.
Amazing how many people are duped by that fairy tale.
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https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ussher.htm
http://www.bethinking.org/is-there-a-creator/conflict-myths-bishop-ussher-and-the-date-of-creation
Bishop Ussher's work was not based on Egyptian myth, but historical sources available at that time. Of course, you can doubt that Adam lived 930 years, that Seth lived 912 years, Lamech 777, Methusela 969 and so on; Bishop Ussher accepted these numbers uncritically.
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Originally posted by moonbusWhat? he actually believed each of those people lived many hundreds of years? Were they taking loads of vitamins, salads, allbran and exercise or what? Human biology cannot allow people to live much longer than 100 years. He clearly was an idiot.
You may be mistaken about the basis for the belief that the Earth is about 6,000 years old, at least asfaras as Protestants are concerned. Bishop James Ussher (1581 - 1656) published a monumental work, titled Annals, in which he calculated that the creation of the world was accomplished on 23d Oct 4004 BC. How he did it was by adding up the ages of the patri ...[text shortened]... 2 years, Lamech 777, Methusela 969 and so on; Bishop Ussher accepted these numbers uncritically.
Originally posted by humyYes, the advanced ages of OT prophets was taken literally by many Christians until very recently.
What? he actually believed each of those people lived many hundreds of years? Were they taking loads of vitamins, salads, allbran and exercise or what? Human biology cannot allow people to live much longer than 100 years. He clearly was an idiot.
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Originally posted by humyIf he had not accepted these long life spans then there would be even less than 6000 years of human history. There also seems to be very good scientific reasons why these early humans and animals lived so long.
What? he actually believed each of those people lived many hundreds of years? Were they taking loads of vitamins, salads, allbran and exercise or what? Human biology cannot allow people to live much longer than 100 years. He clearly was an idiot.
Originally posted by moonbusoh the free radical theory is far too simplistic. Their secret had to be something more complex than that. Probably involving some GM consisting of genetic enhancements from genes transferred from mole rats or something like that 😛
"There also seems to be very good scientific reasons why these early humans and animals lived so long."
No doubt the secret of their longevity was the total elimination of free radicals.
Originally posted by moonbusSo making just those three dudes live 70 years instead of 700+ runs that 6000 years down to about 4,000. So the whole thing is bogus double. There are TREES with rings older than 4000 years and they can correlate tree rings from several trees to go back further than that, like 10,000 years just from tree ring data.
You may be mistaken about the basis for the belief that the Earth is about 6,000 years old, at least asfaras as Protestants are concerned. Bishop James Ussher (1581 - 1656) published a monumental work, titled Annals, in which he calculated that the creation of the world was accomplished on 23d Oct 4004 BC. How he did it was by adding up the ages of the patri ...[text shortened]... 2 years, Lamech 777, Methusela 969 and so on; Bishop Ussher accepted these numbers uncritically.