[Didymus Much]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

...The Bible is just a bunch of stories that have no evidence to back up...

Not too ironic.

please elaborate...

The Bible is evidence (go look up the definition of the word). Whether you personally accept that evidence or not is irrelevant.

[euphoric_neckbeard]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

The Bible is evidence (go look up the definition of the word). Whether you personally accept that evidence or not is irrelevant.

Yes, but the stories that are claimed by the Bible to be true such as Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve never happened, since there is no evidence and people wrote about it thousands of years later. Plus it wasn't divinely inspired, it was made up by a bunch of men with some sort of hallucination or delusion.

[Didymus Much]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

Yes, but the stories that are claimed by the Bible to be true such as Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve never happened, since there is no evidence...

*Yawn* Remember this?

The Bible is evidence (go look up the definition of the word). Whether you personally accept that evidence or not is irrelevant.

...Plus it wasn't divinely inspired, it was made up by a bunch of men with some sort of hallucination or delusion.

Nice claims. How about some proof? You wouldn't want to go convincing people of things that have no proof, right?

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

It is not the year 4.5 billion due to the creation of man and the thought of time management, 4.5 billion years ago, man did not exist, but through evolution, we became smarter, more able to keep track of time and to measure time, hence why our calendars only date back 2016 years ago.

Nonsense.

Time was recorded longer ago than 2016 but at the time it was recorded as BC as in Before Christ.
As in the Exodus took place around 500 BC!

SMH

[refridgerator]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

The chinese uses other calendar.

And in the good old days in the Soviet Union, another calendar was used too.

In both, Jesus is not mentioned at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar

Besides this refutation, the fact that a calendar is developed with Jesus born reference, it doesn't means that all what is told about him is truth.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

The chinese uses other calendar.

And in the good old days in the Soviet Union, another calendar was used too.

In both, Jesus is not mentioned at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar

Besides this refutation, the fact that a calendar is developed with Jesus born reference, it doesn't means that all what is told about him is truth.

That's because God didn't care about the Chinaman enough to let him know about the Redeemer of Mankind when they developed their calendar, and the Soviets rejected Him.

This is grade school stuff.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

That's because God didn't care about the Chinaman enough to let him know about the Redeemer of Mankind when they developed their calendar, and the Soviets rejected Him.

This is grade school stuff.

Grade school stuff indeed Sister Mary. Our poster needs a lesson in history.

The reason communism failed in both those countries is that they did not know what time it was nor have a real calender. And how could they when they had rejected God--He was not about to tell them.

[a.lyin'.kid]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

You are literally retarded. Why isn't it 4.5 billion? Because the Gregorian calendar didn't start when the Earth formed. Also why not 14 billion? Way cooler.

[Basilissa]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

You are literally retarded. Why isn't it 4.5 billion? Because the Gregorian calendar didn't start when the Earth formed.

Gregorian calendar was introduced 435 years ago. According to your own logic, why isn't it the year 435, then?

[a.lyin'.kid]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

I mean it could be? Why not? It's just a human construct that allows us to keep track of dates.

[Basilissa]

Re: Hey Atheists: Why Isn't It The Year 4.5 Billion?

I mean it could be? Why not? It's just a human construct that allows us to keep track of dates.

Well, most calendars are not entirely just human constructs. The Mayan 260 day calendar was indeed a totally human construct because it had no astronomical basis that I know of (please correct me if I'm wrong; maybe it was some synodic cycle?). However, the "other" Mayan calendar, as well as Julian and Gregorian calendars, are solar years, thus astronomically based (albeit some are more exact than others). So it's not as arbitrary as you think.