I would put forward that Creation occurred somewhere between 9,500 and 5,500 years prior to the Incarnation, no more, no less.

If you have some specific Septuagint and Peshitta examples (and the translations) countering the Masoretic Texts, I'd love to put them side-by-side to add an "age of the Earth" section to my cosmology page: http://judaism.is/cosmology.html 

See my "Hebrew Bible" page to see how I have previously juxtaposed such conflicting texts: http://judaism.is/hebrew-bible.html

It’s fun to respond to modernists with much larger, but equally absurd numbers, to the ones they believe in.  “65 Million years ago???  I think that’s a MASSIVE underestimation.  The dinosaurs have to be AT LEAST 750 Quintillion years old.  This planet is about ten times as old as that.  That’s what gave the dna time to randomly assemble itself into animated creatures.” 

Good grief, so like how old are triangles and those continuations of Pi, or the one side of it and the other? Have you heard about 10,000 year mortgages?

Don't get me started about Father Robinson's "Local Flood" nonsense.  I was just watching a show "Ancient Apocalypse" that presents some compelling scientific evidence of a Global Flood, from around the world, from the Americas, Asia, and even Antarctica.  It was very compelling.

Must look that site up Ladislaus.

For others, here is Fr Robinson opinion of Noah's Flood.

‘This position of the Flood as being geographically universal meets with serious scientific difficulties. For one, how can you get enough rain to cover the entire earth?... In other words, the laws operating on the Earth today cannot be applied to the time of Noah… One of the motivations for Brown  to postulate water coming from below [the Earth] is that the Bible describes the waters of the Flood as coming both from the ‘fountains of great deep’ and the ‘floodgates of Heaven’ (see Gen, 8:2) …. Clearly this is a popular, but not a scientific description.’--- Fr Paul Robinson. The Realist Guide to Religion and Science, Gracewing, 2018, pp. 274-275.

‘This position on the Flood as being graphically universal meets with serious scientific difficulties. For one, how can you get enough rain to cover the entire earth?

The Bible describes the waters of the Flood as coming from the ‘fountains of the great deep’ and the ‘floodgates of Heaven’ (Gen. 8:2)…. Clearly this is popular, not a scientific description…. To impose a scientific sense upon the Bible then is to do violence to the sacred text and the divinely intended meaning.’--- Fr Paul Robinson

Is this priest actually questioning God’s ability to flood the Earth with water as revealed in Genesis? Is Fr Paul telling us the following is not a true history?

‘[4] I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth. And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased. [11]  all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened: [12] And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. [18] For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: [19] And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains were covered. [20] The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.’ --- (Genesis Ch 7 and 8)

It seems now, God cannot create enough water to cover the Earth? An Earth-wide flood would also result in massive mountains of earth-crust movement as well as liquid sediments made up of pieces of rock, earth, dust and other particles, into which all living creatures would fall into and become fossilised. Isn’t that what we find; 75% of the whole Earth’s surface is sedimentary rock strata filled with billions of similar fossils the rest made up of igneous rock and metamorphic rock. So, which Noah’s Flood are Catholics now taught, the supernatural revelation or its ‘educated’ natural scientific replacement? 

‘Deluge. The great flood which covered the whole land or region in which Noe lived (Gen. 6:1-9:19). God sent this flood to destroy all men in this region because of their wickedness. Noe and his family alone were spared (Gen. 6:1-8). Scriptural scholars say that the flood did not necessarily cover the whole Earth as we know it today; some even hold that it not necessarily destroyed all the people on the Earth.’ ----- The Holy Bible: The Catholic Press Inc. Chicago, 1951.

So much for the dogma: ‘no salvation outside the Catholic Church (the Ark).’

Must look that site up Ladislaus.

For others, here is Fr Robinson opinion of Noah's Flood.

‘This position of the Flood as being geographically universal meets with serious scientific difficulties. For one, how can you get enough rain to cover the entire earth?... In other words, the laws operating on the Earth today cannot be applied to the time of Noah… One of the motivations for Brown  to postulate water coming from below [the Earth] is that the Bible describes the waters of the Flood as coming both from the ‘fountains of great deep’ and the ‘floodgates of Heaven’ (see Gen, 8:2) …. Clearly this is a popular, but not a scientific description.’--- Fr Paul Robinson. The Realist Guide to Religion and Science, Gracewing, 2018, pp. 274-275

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This man has no idea what he's talking about. How does he know there wasn't enough water to cover the earth at the time of the flood? Was he there? The arrogance of these fake so-called scientists in claiming they were here millions of years ago and can tell us what was going on back then is just ridiculous.

To answer his objection, if we want to dignify it with such a word, first of all the Bible does say the fountains of the great deep opened up, meaning that water came out of the earth for the flood. I don't know why he says this isn't a scientific idea. That would easily explain where the water came from.

Secondly, there is evidence that the high mountains that exist today were actually caused by the flood, and that before the flood there were maybe large hills, but not high mountains many thousands of feet tall. If that is true, then the amount of water required to submerge the earth would be a tiny fraction of what would be necessary to do the same thing today, so yes, it's perfectly reasonable to say there was enough water back then to do so.

Lastly, how does Fr. Robinson explain how seashells keep getting found on top of high mountains, if water can't rise above the highest mountains in the world?

My impression is that Pangaea was before the flood and the continents or lands were divided after it in the days of Peleg. It was basically one land mass that was covered.

My impression is that Pangaea was before the flood and the continents or lands were divided after it in the days of Peleg. It was basically one land mass that was covered.

That is my guess also, except that I don't believe in the Globe earth.  I suspect that the violent upheaval related to the flood also broke apart and divided the land mass.