Biblical chronologies are historically important, but their credibility began to erode in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it became appa… - Brent Dalrymple

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Biblical chronologies are historically important, but their credibility began to erode in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it became apparent to some that it would be more profitable to seek a realistic age for the Earth through observation of nature than through a literal interpretation of parables. Today, scientists and biblical scholars alike agree that science is the proper arena in which to seek the numerical age of the Earth.