>>14307722I don't know if the world is 6000 years old... it could be older, it could be younger. But I don't think we really know how old it is at all.
How can you be sure a year is as long as you think it is? Do you remember every batch of 365 days in your life without gaps? If I ask you what you were doing on June 7th 2015 can you tell me straight away? Probably not. There's gaps. You don't really know if a calendar year is really a year. And that's based on your own day to day experience. What about the stuff that happened before you were born? Do you rely on your parents and teacher's faulty memory?
Let's assume for a second that Dionysius Exiguus when he created the modern calendar system that divided years into AD and BC was just trying his absolute best. Remember, he wasn't around for the time before he was born, he had to do the best he could with records and dates about the reigns of kings. Now there could be some errors. This king actually reigned for 12 years not 14... this one for 6 months not six years etc. Well all those errors add up. Suddenly you can't even be sure how long was between Dionysius Exiquus and Jesus Christ to Pythagoras.
Unrelated as it may seem, the Amish movement started only in 1693... that sounds surprisingly recent. Only 200 years later the first motion film was made. The first photo was taken about 30 years later. The Amish aren't new...
Anyway, so we agree Dionysius had no idea how long ago things actually took place. But we can just rely on radio carbon-dating and sediment layers to tell how long ago archeological and even geological formations took form... right? Right?
We know how long a year is right, based on this faulty memory that we've agreed upon with other people with faulty memory based on assumptions made before we were born?
We know that rock formations are millions of years old because... well... they just are okay!!!
