But... I mean I'm pretty sure that we're sure that there's been agriculture for at least 10,000 years. More than that, I think.
Besides, he does the calculation for the entire sixth day. So that would include the physical manifestation of man, no?
As for Cain joining "the others", this I don't remember. I remember after he recieved the mark, animals would react to it, but IIRC, they were supposed to be "just animals." I may be wrong there, though. IANAR (I am not a rabbi)
Incidentally, while I am a physics student, I don't know anywhere enough yet to verify these computations. Anyone out there who knows GR and inflationary cosmology feel like weighing in on the numbers he derives?
Yes, I understood that. What I'm saying is that is not _sufficient_ to deal with the discrepencies between biblical and observational timekeeping.
According to that, time is measured from "early spacetime" up to the creation of man, at which point it switches to time as measured from our perspective.
So even with these calculations, it changes biblical timekeeping to ~16 billion years prior to the creation of man, and a bit less than 6000 years since then. But we seem to have evidence of humanity doing stuff for rather longer than 6000 years. So even if you can get it roughly lined up with cosmology timewise, it still fails on the duration of human history front.
Interesting, I've heard of such computations before as well.
However, even if those computations are valid, there's still a rather large issue, namely that if that was true, we would expect to not see any evidence of humanity prior to 6000 years ago, right? (ie, it says that the clock switches to human perspective time once the Adam Family shows up. (I am so sorry... that joke wrote itself.))
But, point is, that isn't sufficient to explain the evidence of humanity being around for, what, at least tens of thousands of years?
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But... I mean I'm pretty sure that we're sure that there's been agriculture for at least 10,000 years. More than that, I think.
Besides, he does the calculation for the entire sixth day. So that would include the physical manifestation of man, no?
As for Cain joining "the others", this I don't remember. I remember after he recieved the mark, animals would react to it, but IIRC, they were supposed to be "just animals." I may be wrong there, though. IANAR (I am not a rabbi)
Incidentally, while I am a physics student, I don't know anywhere enough yet to verify these computations. Anyone out there who knows GR and inflationary cosmology feel like weighing in on the numbers he derives?
Yes, I understood that. What I'm saying is that is not _sufficient_ to deal with the discrepencies between biblical and observational timekeeping.
According to that, time is measured from "early spacetime" up to the creation of man, at which point it switches to time as measured from our perspective.
So even with these calculations, it changes biblical timekeeping to ~16 billion years prior to the creation of man, and a bit less than 6000 years since then. But we seem to have evidence of humanity doing stuff for rather longer than 6000 years. So even if you can get it roughly lined up with cosmology timewise, it still fails on the duration of human history front.
Interesting, I've heard of such computations before as well.
However, even if those computations are valid, there's still a rather large issue, namely that if that was true, we would expect to not see any evidence of humanity prior to 6000 years ago, right? (ie, it says that the clock switches to human perspective time once the Adam Family shows up. (I am so sorry... that joke wrote itself.))
But, point is, that isn't sufficient to explain the evidence of humanity being around for, what, at least tens of thousands of years?
*laughs*
You forgot the ad slogan though... "So good, you'll eat a whole beowulf cluster of them."