Quit polluting my religion with that BS! One man made all that crap up a few hundred years ago.
"James Ussher (or Usher; 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific scholar and church leader, who today is most famous for his identification of the genuine letters of the church father, Ignatius, and for his chronology that sought to establish the time and date of the creation as "the entrance of the night preceding the 23rd day of October... the year before Christ 4004"; that is, around 6 pm on 22 October 4004 BC, per the proleptic Julian calendar. "
Brutha Usser merely took the Scriptures at face value. He counted the number of generations as listed in the Scriptures, and arrived at a number. Matthew’s gospel gives a straight line list of all the generations from Adam to Christ. WE can tack on some numbers to bring it up to today. It’s not an exact science. That is why it’s stated in a range of from approx. 6,000 to 10,000 yrs. And if that is not precisely correct, I think it’ll be much closer to the truth than 450 billion is. Blessings on your day.
Thanks. It took 300 man-years of labor (using modern power tools) to build the "replica" of Noah's ark; also, none of the critters on the islands SE of Asia can swim to or from the mainland, so those species could not have been on the ark. There was also no food supply for the critters; if food had been miraculously provided, it would have been mentioned (e.g., the miracle of manna was, from the account of the time after the Exodus). In the rabbinical sources other craft were on the water during The Deluge. Also, survivors of The Deluge could not light fires, possibly due to the sudden decline in oxygen (this is from I.V., who attributed The Deluge to the arrival of a stream, more like a bath, of hydrogen, which combined with much of the Earth's oxygen to produce a monstrous amount of rain), which ordinarily wouldn't be a problem if there were no survivors because they hadn't invented treading water yet. The origins given and there for various ancient neighbors of the Hebrews also is suggestive of no worldwide flood.