Humans have only been around for 6000 years? I have a question...

by KristiKay 30 Replies latest jw friends

  • sir82
    sir82

    Mathematically, yes.

    Genetically and practically, no.

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Best answer, Sir82

    All a JW needs is the math. The rest is "guided by Jah."

  • jam
    jam

    Take A penney and double it each day for 30 days(2x2=4 4x4=16 etc.)

    what would you have after 30 days. You can retire. The same as the

    human race.

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    Off-topic, isn't it interesting that recorded history began just about the same time as bible believers have calculated for the age of the earth? You could say, in a way, that's when the "world" came in to being.

  • DagothUr
    DagothUr

    If God moved them to America after the tower of Babel story, who moved the animals from the ark? The animals did not build the tower of Babel. They crossed the Atlantic, swimming and reached the Americas? They swam over the Pacific, into Australia and Antarctica?

  • sabastious
    sabastious

    I'm pretty sure it's impossible to go from 2 to 7,000,000,000 within that timespan. Not because of breeding limitations but because of resource management and general cause and effect. Too many people start exhausting resources especially when they didn't have any modern technology for resource management.

    -Sab

  • DagothUr
    DagothUr

    I repeat: from the Bible's perspective, it's not 2 to 7 billion, it's 8 to 7 billion in a time which was 2 millenia shorter.

  • sabastious
    sabastious
    I repeat: from the Bible's perspective, it's not 2 to 7 billion, it's 8 to 7 billion in a time which was 2 millenia shorter.

    Oh yes you are correct. So it would be 8 to 7 billion in ~4000 thousand years.

    -Sab

  • wobble
    wobble

    How did unique life forms get to Australia and New Zealand (which has a unique flightless bird) when all the land bridges had disappeared thousands of years before the flood was supposed to have occured ?

    The Genesis creation stories (plural, note) and the Noah stories are fiction, as is a good part of the Bible.

    The fashion for interpreting the bible stories as literal ,only really took hold when the Higher Criticism that came out of Germany, and Darwins evolutionary teachings were a danger to "Bible" christians, it is a relatively new way of looking at scripture, and it does not work.

    I saw a programme on the U.K's BBC2 the other night that casts doubt on the historicity of the King David stories, which couod have an impact on Israel's claim to their territory, that calim stems from taking the Bible as a literal work, a dangerous and silly thing to do.

  • KristiKay
    KristiKay

    Thanks everyone for all the replys, I knew I'd get a varity of intelligent thought provoking response!

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