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Author Topic:   Biblical Time Measurement Vs Modern Time Measurement
nwr
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Message 30 of 47 (248730)
10-03-2005 10:38 PM
Reply to: Message 29 by GDR
10-03-2005 10:31 PM


Re: A Thought on the Age Issue
Conceivable -- sure. But highly implausible.
Maybe length of life has evolved during the duration that homo sapiens has existed. But the change isn't likely to have happened in the last 6000 years. And it isn't likely to have been that large a change.
It is far more plausible that a different calendar was used (different year length), or that the numbers were exaggerated, or that it is all myth.

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nwr
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Message 32 of 47 (248741)
10-03-2005 11:07 PM
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10-03-2005 10:49 PM


Re: A Thought on the Age Issue
I'm not a literalist so I'm not too concerned about the 6000 years. I'm prepared to agree that it might have been longer.
6000 is too short for the age of the earth and other aspects of the creation story. However, it is about right for a written record, which include material transcribed from folk lore. Collective memories don't go back all that far.
As I understand evolutionary change it seems to stay realtively dormant for long periods and then it goes in spurts.
But it wouldn't go in the same spurts in China, in Africa, in Europe, in the middle east. There should be some human populations still existing where people live to almost 1000. Where are they?

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