How old is the world?
4.6 billion years at current estimates.
Most people would say: "Nobody knows."
Most people are smarter then you think.
But the author of the book frequently described as the greatest history book ever written, said the world was created Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. making it exactly 6,009 last Monday.
A figure which he just happened to pull out of his ass. What instruments did he uses? What sort of calculations were in effect? What empirical evidence lead him to this claim? I mean outside the Bible.
And who says it's the greatest history book ever? What recent famous and well regarded historian endorsed this book?
In the 1650s, an Anglican bishop named James Ussher published his "Annals of the World," subtitled, "The Origin of Time, and Continued to the Beginning of the Emperor Vespasian's Reign and the Total Destruction and Abolition of the Temple and Commonwealth of the Jews."
1650? Then this information is 357 years old. It's no longer accepted knowledge. There's a reason science frequently updates it's facts with new discovers.
First published in Latin, it consisted of more than 1,600 pages.
Usually when people pull out stuff like this it's to hide the fact that what ever they are selling is unremarkable by using irrelevant data such as this. So the book is long and thick, big deal.
The book, now published in English for the first time, is a favorite of homeschoolers and those who take ancient history seriously.
Which is why this book makes no mention of American, Asian, African, or Northern European cultures and civilizations, just Asia Minor.
It's the history of the world from the Garden of Eden to the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70.
Since there is no observable data to prove the Garden of Eden ever existed it shouldn't be taught as fact. I'm assuming that its going to cover the Great Flood as well and I would love to read how it explains why Egyptian or Asyrian cultures that existed 5,000 years ago have a complete uninterrupted history with no mention of a global flood at all.
