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I'm not entirely happy with this bit: "Creation of the world, according to a literal interpretation of the genealogy of early mankind given in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible." As far as I can recall, the genealogy alone is not enough to deduce the date of the Creation. I remember from trying to work it out myself, several years ago, that there is enough information to deduce that Abraham lived about 2,000 years after the Creation, but beyond Genesis, the timing beomes more vague, and so different people have dated Abraham to different periods. This results in differing estimates of the date of the Creation. According to the Hebrew calendar, for example, the Creation took place in 3761 BC ( 4th millennium BC). -- Oliver P. 17:53 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)
Some Trinity College, Dublin academic actually 'calculated' not merely the actual date of creation, but even specified a time, 9am on the particular date. I forget the guy's name, but I think it was in the eighteenth century. I can do some checking, but someone else might know the details. JTD 18:59 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)~
I though that the purpose of the timelines was to include the facts that actually took place, not those that should have occurred had a certain theory been true. Are we willing to include every single important event predicted (or "retrodicted") by all the known religions, cults, false scientific theories and artistic or literary creations? That would be quite confusing, and hardly useful. -- Sir Paul
And can we really be so precise about when the plough was introduced into Europe? Dating to the nearest century seems a bit too precise when talking about what was still prehistory. Can anyone attribute this date to any source? -- Oliver P. 18:33 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)
Sorry to interrupt ya all , but my Assyrian friend here in Iraq has the current year in there calendar as 6756 ( 1 April 2006). That seems to make a bit of a mockery out of your timelines
The whole thing about Bedazzled should be taken out in my opinion, but I'm not gonna take the responsibility of doing so... Anyone wanna help me?
I think some people have trouble misunderstanding human history. Alot of people mostly because of the differences that evolution has made in how man looks at himself and the universe. Regardless of what the infidels think. How valid are the ideas that human history started in the garden of eden, or that the world was repopulated by the sons of Noah. Where is mankinds Cradle of Humanity is what im trying to say Portillo 09:11, 18 May 2007 (UTC).
I've created a new section called "Mythology" and moved the entry for 4004 there. 4004 is not used by any modern chronologies as it's simply a date calculated by somebody by reference to a creation myth and a biblical chronology. It's part of a belief system rather than a historical chronology. -- TS 06:45, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
This article says world population is "roughly" 40 million, citing Biraben (1979). World population estimates cites a source by Biraben a year later, but does not show any number from it in the table for -5000, and the other estimates listed are 18M, 5M, and 5-20M - half as much as the number given on this page. I don't doubt that 40M may be as good an estimate max as 20M, but it would perhaps be nice if there was consistency between this page and the page on population estimates. -- Lasse Hillerøe Petersen ( talk) 19:08, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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I'm not entirely happy with this bit: "Creation of the world, according to a literal interpretation of the genealogy of early mankind given in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible." As far as I can recall, the genealogy alone is not enough to deduce the date of the Creation. I remember from trying to work it out myself, several years ago, that there is enough information to deduce that Abraham lived about 2,000 years after the Creation, but beyond Genesis, the timing beomes more vague, and so different people have dated Abraham to different periods. This results in differing estimates of the date of the Creation. According to the Hebrew calendar, for example, the Creation took place in 3761 BC ( 4th millennium BC). -- Oliver P. 17:53 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)
Some Trinity College, Dublin academic actually 'calculated' not merely the actual date of creation, but even specified a time, 9am on the particular date. I forget the guy's name, but I think it was in the eighteenth century. I can do some checking, but someone else might know the details. JTD 18:59 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)~
I though that the purpose of the timelines was to include the facts that actually took place, not those that should have occurred had a certain theory been true. Are we willing to include every single important event predicted (or "retrodicted") by all the known religions, cults, false scientific theories and artistic or literary creations? That would be quite confusing, and hardly useful. -- Sir Paul
And can we really be so precise about when the plough was introduced into Europe? Dating to the nearest century seems a bit too precise when talking about what was still prehistory. Can anyone attribute this date to any source? -- Oliver P. 18:33 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)
Sorry to interrupt ya all , but my Assyrian friend here in Iraq has the current year in there calendar as 6756 ( 1 April 2006). That seems to make a bit of a mockery out of your timelines
The whole thing about Bedazzled should be taken out in my opinion, but I'm not gonna take the responsibility of doing so... Anyone wanna help me?
I think some people have trouble misunderstanding human history. Alot of people mostly because of the differences that evolution has made in how man looks at himself and the universe. Regardless of what the infidels think. How valid are the ideas that human history started in the garden of eden, or that the world was repopulated by the sons of Noah. Where is mankinds Cradle of Humanity is what im trying to say Portillo 09:11, 18 May 2007 (UTC).
I've created a new section called "Mythology" and moved the entry for 4004 there. 4004 is not used by any modern chronologies as it's simply a date calculated by somebody by reference to a creation myth and a biblical chronology. It's part of a belief system rather than a historical chronology. -- TS 06:45, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
This article says world population is "roughly" 40 million, citing Biraben (1979). World population estimates cites a source by Biraben a year later, but does not show any number from it in the table for -5000, and the other estimates listed are 18M, 5M, and 5-20M - half as much as the number given on this page. I don't doubt that 40M may be as good an estimate max as 20M, but it would perhaps be nice if there was consistency between this page and the page on population estimates. -- Lasse Hillerøe Petersen ( talk) 19:08, 9 May 2019 (UTC)