The weakness of John Fuller's article is that he is stuck on a totlaly
literal view of Genesis before 1790s and ignores those who say God first
created chaos and then reordered everyrthing in 6 days (poss longer than 24
hourss) In particular are all the Theories of the Earth from 1660. What I
find fascinating how the slightly longer timescale of the theorists of the
17th century grew in the 18th century finally allowing vast geological ages
to be absorbed into an interpretation which kept to 6 "days" either by a
long-day or by a proto-gap theory with the following 6 days which may be
longer than 24 hours.
I read Fuller last week and thought he had got it wrong by not being able to
get out of a 6 day mentality.He needs to ask whether his dates from 17 and
18 century are the date of creation, the date of re-ordering or the creation
of man. I will have to look agian at Fuller to make further comment but I
was in a library looking at 18 cent material pointing to a vastly older age.
I cannot think of more than a handful of writers from 1670 who took a
staight 4000-5500BC approach out of several hundred I have looked at.
Michael
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Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: History of 6000 Year old creation
>
> In a message dated 7/3/02 12:59:27 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> panterragroup@mindspring.com writes:
>
> <<
> I am looking for references for how old is the concept of the 6000 yr
old
> earth or creation. I know this was discussed in earlier posts but am
unable
> to find them. Thanks.
>
>
> Stephen J. Krogh, P.G.
> The PanTerra Group
> http://panterragroup.home.mindspring.com
> >>
>
> You may want to check out "Before the hills in order stood: the beginning
of
> the geology of time in England" by John G.C.M. Fuller in Lewis, C.L.E. and
> Knell, S.J., eds., The Age of the Earth: from 4004 BC to AD 2002:
Geological
> Society (London), Special Publication 190, p. 15-23.
>
> >From 94 AD to 1800 AD there were about 156 estimates of the age of
creation.
> A frequency distribution of estimates (Fuller, fig.2) indicates numbers
from
> 6500 to 3600 BC, with two peaks at about 4000 BC and 5500 BC. These peaks
> correspond with the estimates based on the Septuagint and Massoretic
texts.
>
> Karl
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> Karl V. Evans
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