So you are calling some of the best Bible scholars ‘skeptics’?
The time since God’s creation Man is different from Gods the time since the creation of the universe and earth.
The Jews count the years from the creation of Adam.
Actually, many Bible Scholars are skeptics, but that wasn’t my main point.
The chronology of the Patriarchs has to be acknowledged as ahistorical in the modern sense of the word; the creation of a distinction between before-man/after-man chronologies doesn’t by itself protect the Bible from its attackers.