One of the oddest beliefs in this regard is that the genealogy listed in the Bible from Adam to Jesus accurately represents the complete history of the human race and therefore proves that the human race has existed for just about 6000 years and the planet has existed for just a few days more than that (interpreting the “days” in genesis as 24-hour Earth days).

    Let's look at a few of the things that would imply if we accept this 6000 year age as historical fact. Despite all the scientific evidence that dinosaurs were on the planet for millions of years, the age of the dinosaurs really only lasted two or three years. The time it took for a large land animal to return to the sea and adapt to living there by becoming modern whales was about four hours. Dead dinosaurs and ancient vegetation manages to sink hundreds of feet below ground and turn into oil in a hundred years or so. Man went from caves and primitive stone tools and weapons to building the pyramids in a few hundred years then, for some strange reason, made little progress for about three thousand years. Trees grew a hundred feet tall, died, got buried, and turned into petrified wood all in a hundred years or so. Horses evolved from an animal the size of a house cat to it's current size in two or three years, yet hasn't changed at all in the past 5000!

    We just had a rare earthquake here in Virginia a few days ago. Earthquakes are caused by the continents drifting apart, according to the most widely accepted theory. Another theory with growing acceptance is that the planet is actually getting larger, puffing up like a balloon being filled with air, and that is what is actually pushing the continents farther apart. Yet, there is very little mention of earthquakes in the Bible. If things were happening as rapidly as the 6000 year age indicates, we should be having large quakes almost daily and that should have been occurring since the beginning.

    In short, the acceptance of the Bible as a complete and accurate history of the natural world simply doesn't work.