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Why do creationists believe the world was created 6k years ago?

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Message 9 of 25 (432342)
11-05-2007 1:17 PM 		Reply to: Message 8 by Spektical
11-05-2007 12:53 PM

heading way off topic
Rather I'm going to ask where do believers make the distinction between what parts of the bible to take literally and what parts not to, and why?
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That is a good question but irrelevant to this topic. Maybe you would like to start a thread on it or take it to one of the existing threads.
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Also, no-one has answered my question about the ridiculously long lifespans of such biblical figures as Adam, Methuselah etc.
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Why would those examples be any different than any other miraculous event such as parting the Red Sea?
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Message 16 of 25 (432396)
11-05-2007 7:31 PM 		Reply to: Message 14 by Buzsaw
11-05-2007 6:35 PM

Gotta quit misrepresenting the Bible Buz.
Genesis writes:
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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning”the first day.
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So each day was light and dark, even before there was a Sun.
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No need of a Sun or Moon.
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Have you ever read the Bible Buz?
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Message 22 of 25 (432503)
11-06-2007 12:09 PM

Towards the topic
The 6000 year figure was arrived at by picking a verifiable date, IIRC Herod's death. Since Jesus could not have been born after Herod's death, which was in 4BC, Ussher used that as a key milestone, and then used accounts from the Biblical genealogies to work backwards.
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The Creation week was taken as literal days for several reasons, one most prominent is that the Jews themselves accepted them as literal days in their calendar system.
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It was actually a rather remarkable feat, and one many other people also attempted coming up with different results based on assumptions, changes in various calendar systems and Canons.
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