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Where does it say in the bible that the Universe is only 6,000 years old?

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Buzsaw
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Message 27 of 114 (108312)
05-14-2004 10:51 PM 		Reply to: Message 15 by Dr Jack
05-11-2004 9:22 AM

But if we're talking about a literal interpreation of the bible, those assumptions are already made.
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The problem with that notion is that a literal interpretation of the Bible does not make that assumption valid. As I've detailed and explained so many times in this town, it does not make any direct statement as to when the universe and the planet were created. It simply states that when the earth and the heavens were made God did it.
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Message 28 of 114 (108313)
05-14-2004 11:02 PM 		Reply to: Message 26 by Sylas
05-14-2004 10:47 PM

That's dead easy. According the bible, the biblical firmament obviously encompasses both of what we now distinguish as atmosphere and space.
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True. As with much of the Hebrew, the context determines the rendering of the textual wording, the Hebrew being a language of relatively few words.
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