Let me try to give one example of a Bible story that just does not make sense. According to Luke, there were 77 generations between Adam and Jesus. If the average age of the father was 25 when he had is son, that would be a total of around 2,000 years. So Man’s time on earth would have started 2,000 BC. Now if the average age of the fathers were 50 years old, then Adam would have been around 4,000 BC or 6,000 years ago. Many fundamentalist believe this to be true. However, I don’t think man’s average life expectancy was near 50. And if you really wanted to juice it up, say the average father’s age at birth was 100. That would make Man appearing around 8,000 years ago.
But we have human made artifacts, stone tools that were made over 100,000 years ago. We have man made carving, such as the Venus of Willendorf, that was produced over 25,000 years ago. Just does not add up from the biblical writings. The bible’s timeline for Man is really pathetic, nearly comical.
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