User talk:DwightC

Dating Creation
Dwight, the added piece is still original research, please see WP:OR, and in any event, simple addition of that sort wouldn't work (it assumes that every year is precisely full). JoshuaZ 21:52, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Joshua - Thank you as I was unaware of the policy. I haven't figured out yet how to contact you directly. I'll post this information here in User talk and now I'll understand if the following gets deleted one last time. DwightC 02:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I've also thought about whether or not the years mentioned are precisely full. Since the mid year age of the father is not mentioned then an upper and lower bound can be established by simply adding 1 extra year for each father mentioned. Consider that if a man is born June 1, 1962 and dies on either January 1, 2002 or December 31, 2002 an outside observer, not remembering his birth date, might say that the person was 40 years old when he died. Likewise any person born some day in 1962 might be considered more or less 40 years old on any given day in the year 2002. The maximum variation attributed to the 22 fathers mid year age can be expressed as (4107 ± 22 BCE) DwightC 02:01, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

4107 BCE - Man created - Remarkably only a few events recorded in the Old Testament are used to estimate man's first year on earth; from Adam until Noah (1056); from Noah until Flood (600); from Flood until Abram (292); from Abram until Israel entered Egypt (290); Israel's sojourn in Egypt (430),  from Israel's departure out of Egypt until construction of Solomon's temple (480). Lastly a modern estimate is used to place the 4th year of Solomon's reign (959 BCE). References: KJV/NIV - Genesis 1:27, 2:1,5:1-32, 7:6, 11:10-26, 17:17, 25:26, 47:9; Exodus 12:40-41; 1 Kings 6:1; the date 959 BCE infers the 4th year of Solomon's reign started in 962 BCE. DwightC 02:01, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Additional notes: The writer of Genesis took care to record the pre-flood longevity of Adam's royal line. It is recorded that Methuselah died at the age of 969 which was also the same year of the flood when Noah himself was 600 years old. Construction began on Solomon's temple 1200 years after Abraham's birth (290+430+480). DwightC 02:03, 24 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, see the facy that this is coming from that that you've "thought about" it is precisely what makes this original research. See that link and WP:V for the relevant Wikipedia policies. I hope that clarifies things JoshuaZ 02:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)