Fascinating
isn't it. All the history of humanity fits into a Young Earth view. History
only began to be recorded a few thousand years ago. As a historian I've always
found this one of the most compelling reasons for a young earth, especially
when you note things like this:
- Greeks,
Norsemen, Anglo-Saxons and other Europeans all had genealogies going back to
Japeth, or Jove, Jupiter.
- Most
ancient cultures have historical records of a great flood. The Babylonians have
an account of a human after the flood going to visit the "immortal
one" who survived the flood and who now lived up in the mountains.
Consider how long Noah lived, he'd have appeared immortal to some. Countless
accounts of the flood and its devastating impact on the world exist in many
cultures. Indeed, many ancient pagan creation stories conceptualize humanity and
creation coming out of the chaotic waters of the flood. Something the Bible
speaks to very clearly but also corrects. The Greek version of Noah is called Deucalion,
which means wine drinking sailor, is most likely harkening back to the famous drunkenness
of Noah. There is so much historical convergence across cultures and continents
it is remarkable.
- Even the
most ancient civilizations are very young, not going back more than a few
thousand years. The most ancient temples maybe 10-20,000, if you trust the
dating methods.
- Almost
everything that is said about pre-history, including Indigenous Australia,
African pre-history, and Neanderthals in Europe, is based on imagination, and
assumptions about dating. They will find something like teeth or a finger bone and
will create a display in a museum and a chapter in a book about a whole tribe's
lifestyle, based on ideas about how such people must have lived. It's literally
mostly myth, and many people don't know that.
- There are
many languages in this world with zero relation to each other, as if they had
just popped out of thin air, created by a Deity. This is impossible in an
evolutionary model, at least to the degree it occurs, but is explained to us by
the tower of babel account in Genesis 11. God confused the languages of man, and
the vast array of unrelated languages in the world support the likelihood of
this event being real and recorded accurately.
- Genesis
4-11 still leaves tonnes of mystery, like the Land of Nod, The Nephilim, and
more, but nothing in our history books contradict a relatively young earth.
Modern ideology however requires it, so unwritten records are interpreted to
back up modern ideology. And this vast unwritten history effectively allows the
mind to run wild.
It is not
necessary to say the earth is precisely 6000 years old. But you have to make up
a whole bunch of stuff, with a whole bunch of assumptions, to fill in all those
blank years, going back millions of years and more. History records a much younger
human race. It is reasonable to assume that humanity did not invent writing straight
out of the garden, but within a few generations humans had invented husbandry, stringed
musical instruments, metallurgy, tent making and were demarcating different
areas by name, (cf. Gen. 4). So, we can safely assume humans were just as
inventive and creative as our histories say they are, and were far more
intelligent from the beginning than modern science gives them credit for. History lends itself to supporting a relatively young earth.
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