The length of a year

By Kevin Carnes

There is another problem with Ussher, et. al., using the ages of the people listed in the Bible to determine the earth’s age. One needs to define a “year.” A “year” hasn’t always been 12 months/365(.25) days. In the early days of Rome, there was a change from their traditional 10 month year to 12 months.

It could be that a “year” in Methusela’s time was what we call a “month.” We just don’t know, do we? If the “year” at his time was equal to a “month” in our time, he would have fathered his first child when he was 15 years, 8 months old, and his last child when he was 80 years, 4 months old. That makes a lot more sense than 186 and 989, or whatever the exact ages were that were claimed in the bible.