The 6000 year reference in the bible?

[flobadob]

Apparently the bible ages the earth at 6000 years old, I'm going by picking up information on it from different sources. I'm not saying that this is right or wrong but what I am wondering is, did something take place 6000 years ago that could be looked at as a new beginning in human history and perhaps this 6000 year thing is a sort of reference to this rather than to be taken as fact? Does anyone have a thought on this?

[wildwood]

Yes, all horse carts and bicycles had square wheels until someone tought, "Hey! I wonder if a round wheel might be a good idea!".

[douglas9401]

Terry Wogan had his first breakfast show on the Light Programme?

[vulcan]

The square wheels were useful prior to handbrakes being invented.

[flobadob]

Horse domestication doesn't seem to relate.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't Bishop Usher of Co Armagh do the genealogy and find that?

[sandyRoe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology

A Protestant. That explains a lot.

[wildwood]

^^ pmsl.
flobadob, the horse was domesticated about 6000 years ago, and so was the round wheel invention. A bit hard for the planet to be that 'young' then....

[Elderman]

Well, 6000 years is a time for man to comprehend here we know how time moves—forward. It is one-directional, The past is gone, never to be repeated. Our mistakes have left their imprint in the sands of time, as have our good deeds. We always live in the present and progress to the future, but we can never go backward and undo our mistakes. Hence, the value of our making good decisions in the present so that we can enjoy a better future rather than a regretful one. (Proverbs 3:1)

[flobadob]

The reason I didn't mention the wheel remark is because it was obviously derisory to my question, whereas horse domestication maybe is around that time, I don't know. However I don't think the domestication of the horse correlates with the theory I'm putting forward. If you don't want to contribute don't bother guys. Yes, you are all very hilarious with your funny answers but don't feel the need to impose.

[Clanad]

Firstly, your base premise is skewed since nowhere in the Old or New Covenant does the Scripture reference the age of the Earth (or creation for that matter). Several attempts have been made to establish such an age, including the geneologies that appear in various places(which were never intended to be comprehensive) as well as Bishop James Ussher's (ca 1650)misplaced aging... based on an exhaustive bult flawed study. It was well received at the time, primarily due to Ussher's record of scholarsip and study.

So, to correlate the number "6,000" to some significant instance or event in the development of civilization is in error...

[flobadob]

Clanad, I accept that and that is not really what I want people to emphasis on. 6000 is a generally bandied about figure for the earth's biblical age, what I'm querying is whether or not something of significance happened around that time which could be viewed as a basis for a new path in human existence?

[Elderman]

In thinking over the foregoing, here are some things to consider: Was it undirected chance that placed the earth at just the right distance from the sun, its source of energy in the form of light and heat? Was it mere chance that caused the earth to move around the sun at just the right speed, to rotate on its axis every 24 hours, and to have just the correct angle of tilt? Was it chance that provided the earth with a protective, life-sustaining atmosphere having just the right mixture of gases? Was it chance that gave the earth the water and soil needed to grow food? Was it chance that provided so many delicious and colorful fruits, vegetables and other foods? Was it chance that caused so much beauty to exist in the sky, the mountains, the streams and lakes, the flowers, plants and trees, and in so many other delightful living things?
Many have concluded that all of this could hardly be due to undirected chance. Instead, they see the unmistakable stamp of thoughtful, intelligent, deliberate design everywhere. Recognizing that, they feel it is only right that the beneficiaries “fear God and give him glory” because he is “the One who made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters. Revelation 14:7

[flobadob]

Well with more galaxies in the universe than there are grains of sand on the earth elderman, I would assert that all those things had to happen sometime, probably more than once.

[wildwood]

flobadob. The 6000 years has been a laughable postulation for many years. There were carts with little square wheels before the round wheel, pulled by bullocks, and the domestication of the horse clearly shows that Man has been around for a long long time before 6 millennium ago. Think about the different skin colour of peoples, this alone shows that we've been around for yonks.

Elderman. This planet did not happen to appear just so as to be suitable for life. Life as we know it was able to evolved here because of this planet's relatively stable environment.

[Elderman]

The awesome universe provides overwhelming evidence for the existence of a Grand Creator. Some astronomers estimate that there are 100 billion galaxies in the universe and that each galaxy may contain as many as 100 billion stars! Some stars are many times the size of our sun. The galaxies are not just haphazardly thrown together but are set out in an organized and orderly manner.

Yes, the earth is a wonder among all the heavenly bodies in the universe. It is, in fact, unique. The earth provides just the right environment to accommodate living things comfortably, like a magnificent and well-provisioned house. It is a vast storehouse that has all of life’s necessities—food, air, water, and light—and much more. Surely, no intelligent person would ever believe that a fully equipped and stocked house had no designer but just came about by chance. Would it not be even more unreasonable to think that the earth, equipped with everything that is essential for life, just came about by chance?

[wildwood]

^^ //Would it not be even more unreasonable to think that the earth, equipped with everything that is essential for life, just came about by chance//

Earth did not have anything that was essential for life, originally. Even oxygen was almost non existing. It was a furious hot place. Not until it cooled and settled down did single cell life appear and did so unchanged for approximate a billion years. When these cells started mutating algae appeared and over many millions of year exchanged a portion of the carbon dioxide in the air for oxygen, this eventually enable other life to evolved.

[boxtops]

Earth didn't just appear as it is now - nor did the life as we know it on earth - we and the beasts evolved to suit the environment of earth, not the other way round.