GENESIS ----- Adam - 130 Seth - 105 Enosh - 90 Kenan - 70 Mahalalel - 65 Jared - 162 Enoch - 65 Methuselah - 187 Lamech - 182 Noah - 500 Shem - 100 Arpachshad - 35 Shelah - 35 Eber - 34 Peleg - 30 Reu - 32 Serug - 30 Nahor - 29 Terah - 70 Abraham (2000?) - 100 |
MATTHEW ----- Isaac - 60 Jacob = Israel Judah Perez Hezron Ram Amminadab Nahshon Salmon Boaz Obed Jesse David (r 1000-961) Solomon (r 961-922) Rehoboam (r 922-915) Abijah (r 915-13) Asa (r 913-873) Jehoshaphat (r 873-849) Joram (r 849-842) Uzziah (r 769-734) |
MATTHEW (cont.) Jotham (r 749-734) Ahaz (r 734-715) Hezekiah (r 715-687) Manasseh (r 687-640) Amon (r 640-632) Josiah (r 640-609) Jeconiah (586, Babylon) Shealtiel Zerubbabel Abiud Eliakim Azor Zadok Achim Eliud Eleazar Matthan Jacob Joseph Jesus |
If you add the known ages at which begats occurred, you get 2111 years from Adam's beginning to Isaac's begetting of Jacob. Even if you allow the 38 remaining begats to occur as late as average age 50, then Adam's beginning is in the year 4011. Which squares pretty well with the estimate of 4004 BC made by James Ussher (1581-1656, Bishop of Armagh).
Accepting this solid proof that the earth can be no more than 6,000 years old, it follows that all assertions regarding events before that time are wrong. Q.E.D.
The Ages of Rocks -- So none of these things could have happened
years ago EVENT or BEGINNING OF ERA 18,000,000,000 Big Bang 4,600,000,000 Origin of Earth from solar dust cloud 4,300,000,000 Development of crust, atmosphere and ocean 3,960,000,000 Oldest known rocks, near Yellowknife, Canada 3,900,000,000 End of major episode of meteorite impacts 3,500,000,000 Oldest known fossils (stromatolitic bacteria) 2,700,000,000 Oxygen-producing photosynthetic microorganisms 2,400,000,000 Development of large continents 2,000,000,000 Oxygen-rich atmosphere 1,800,000,000 Organisms entirely dependent on oxygen 1,000,000,000 Sexual reproduction in organisms with a nucleus 600,000,000 Era: PALEOZOIC 600,000,000 Period: CAMBRIAN (protozoans, trilobites) 500,000,000 Period: ORDOVICIAN (snails, jawless fish, echinoids) 425,000,000 Period: SILURIAN (sea scorpions, corals, sharks) 405,000,000 Period: DEVONIAN (starfish) 345,000,000 Period: MISSISSIPPIAN (amphibians, clams, lungfish) 310,000,000 Period: PENNSYLVANIAN (dragonflies) 280,000,000 Period: PERMIAN (ammonites, finbacked reptiles) 230,000,000 Era: MESOZOIC 230,000,000 Period: TRIASSIC (ichtyosaurs, tyrannosaurs) 180,000,000 Period: JURASSIC (flying reptiles) 135,000,000 Period: CRETACEOUS (ancient birds, snakes, modern fish) 65,000,000 Era: CENOZOIC 65,000,000 Epoch: PALEOCENE (birds, horses, monkeys, elephants) 58,000,000 Epoch: EOCENE (alligators) 36,000,000 Epoch: OLIGOCENE (apes, bats) 25,000,000 Epoch: MIOCENE (whales, sabertooths) 20,000,000 Continental Formation nearly complete 15,000,000 ### Ramapithecus punjabicus 13,000,000 Epoch: PLIOCENE (gorillas) 4,500,000 ### Australopithecus 2,000,000 ### Homo habilis 1,600,000 ### Homo erectus 1,000,000 Epoch: PLEISTOCENE (human beings) 590,000 < Gunz or Nebraskan Glacial 510,000 > end of Gunz, beginning of First Interglacial 420,000 < Mindel or Kansan Glacial 250,000 ### Homo sapiens 240,000 > end of Mindel, Second or Great Interglacial 220,000 < Riss or Illinoian Glacial 180,000 > end of Riss, beginning of Third Interglacial 150,000 < Wurm or Wisconsin Glacial 110,000 ### Neanderthal man 40,000 ### Modern man 20,000 > end of Wurm, beginning of Postglacial 10,000 Mesopotamia, Agricultural Revolution