Hoaryhead, all of the references people have been using are referenceds to the first time the beliefs were
written down. By that standary, the Torah, along with it's Genesis account, are not as old as the writings of the religions mentioned.
Your derived date for Creation is just that - a derived date, not the verified date of the oldest text found.
If I write a book that describes the world 2 million years ago, does that mean the belief is 2 million years old? Certainly not.
All that can be
proven is the age of the texts themselves. By that measurement, we can see that the Genesis story is by no means the first written religious text.
I have read a lot of claims by Atheists, even on this web site, that Hinduism was the oldest religion.
You can imagine my shock when I read that this is trashy talk.
The encyclopedias are compiled by Atheists too.
The source of an argument is irrelevant. It doesn't matter if the "encyclopedias were written by atheists." All that matters is the evidence, and you have provided none.
Do you have any evidence that the Judaic texts are older than the Hindu Rig Veda, or the Egyptian religious writings? Do you have evidence that the religious wall paintings made by the Australian Aboriginees are
not 50,000-80,000 years old as others in this thread have claimed?
You can imagine my shock when I read that this is trashy talk.
And can you make a single post
without making an ad hominem attack?
What does this say about the origin of man?
The evolutionists dating of origin of man is not sustained by any evidence; only theory.
Does thia prove a young earth?
Well, if the Aboriginal writings are indeed 50-80,000 years old, that would pretty much disprove the 6,000 year old Young Earth, wouldn't it?
As to the rest - the age of writings cannot determine the age of the Earth, except that obviously a text cannot be older than the planet itself. Your comment here is off-topic and irrelevant to this discussion.
Every time a fundy breaks the laws of thermodynamics, Schroedinger probably kills his cat.