While Ussher’s chronology is certainly up for grabs in its interpretation, that does not mean that by default any other dating method offered up in its place is correct.
The dating method used by scientists has no more basis for accuracy and does not necessarily have to be accepted as true or accurate because it’s basciallly the only other one out there. It is just as liable to be wrong as Ussher’s.
I do not accept Ussher’s chronolgy for a number of reasons, mostly because of assumptions made on which it is based. For the same reason, I do not accept the scientific assessment of the age of the universe; too many assumptions made which can not be verified.
So perhaps some evo would like to try answering these questions....
On the day that God created man, as an adult human beng, how old was man? Was he one day old as anyone who accepts the truth of Scripture would say? Or was he some decades old, as a mature, adult male would be if evaluated “scientifically”?
No doubt from a scientific viewpoint, Adam would be some 20-30 years old, all based on the physical appearance of age. But is that accurate and is God a liar or trickster for creating Adam as a mature adult human being with the appearance of age? Or did it ever occur to those who choose to accuse God of deceit that He simply created man as an adult for purely practical reasons, like He could not have simple laid a sperm and egg on the ground and expected anything to happen?
Is the Bible believing creationist correct for stating that man is one day old in contradiction to the “evidence” of age? Or is the scientist correct in dating the man at decades old when in reality the man was one day old?.
Science works on the presumption that the physical evidence we are confronted with is an accurate representation of the facts. Is that a safe assumption to make and why?
While everything is more or less correct, so much detail simply had to be left out for the Bronze Age audience. That and a full account would be a bit difficult to transport even by a large camel train caravan.
Science works on the presumption that the physical evidence we are confronted with is an accurate representation of the facts. Is that a safe assumption to make and why?
Wow. Just wow.