If the earth is not approximately 6000 years old, then the bible is nothing more than what it appears to be: A collection of tribal creation mythology and "chosen people" nonsense common to all tribes throughout human history.
"In the early 1600s, Ussher spent years painstakingly calculating the date, using copious sources of information, not just the Old Testament: he also studied ancient Egyptian and Hebrew texts, analysed how ancient calendars were devised, and consulted with astronomers"
"...Ussher was not alone in his calculation — lots of other famous scholars were doing the same thing. Newton and Kepler both reckoned the creation took place about six years earlier, around 3998 BC. John Lightfoot, an eminent Hebrew scholar at Cambridge, thought it was 80 years before that. And there were heated arguments about whose date was correct!
The calculation they were doing was called the Chronology, and the scientists didn’t just calculate the date for the Creation, they also calculated dates for other biblical events: Ussher reckoned that Noah’s Flood happened in the year 2348 BC, for instance, and the Exodus from Egypt in 1491 BC.
The reason Ussher’s chronology is so well known, rather than any of the others, is because his was used in printed English bibles, given the same respect as the Scriptures..."
So if we we treat the bible as history (Ha, Ha!), we come to necessary conclusions that are at complete odds with all the Sciences and all true history as we know it from scholarship. Simple as mud and as simple as giving all the animals a name in a single day while searching for a suitable mate. I name thee kangaroo, but I do not want to sleep with you...yet!
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