Благодарности. Я хочу поблагодарить Алана Хилла, Лэрри Хилла и Стива Джобса, которые проверили расчёты в этой статье и внесли в них свой вклад

Я хочу поблагодарить Алана Хилла, Лэрри Хилла и Стива Джобса, которые проверили расчёты в этой статье и внесли в них свой вклад.

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[2] Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus on Egypt, trans. Edwin Murphy (London: McFailand, 1985), 32-33.

[3] J. A. Borland, “Did People Live to be Hundreds of Years Old Before the Flood?” in The Genesis Debate: Pertinent Questions About Creation and the Flood, ed. R. Youngblood (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1986), 171

[4] Ross, The Genesis Question, 119.

[5] C. P. Sonett, E. P. Evale, A. Zakharian, M. A. Chan, and T. M. Demko, “Late Proterozoic and Paleozoic Tides, Retreat of the Moon, and Rotation of the Earth,” Science 273, no. 5271 (1996): 100.

[6] Borland, “Did People Live to be Hundreds of Years Old Before the Flood?” 173-174.

[7] J. C. Whitcomb and H. M. Morris, The Genesis Flood (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1966), 399.

[8] F. Kendig and R. Hutton, Life Spans – Or How Long Things Last (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979), 8; and E. M. Yamauchi, “Attitudes Toward the Aged in Antiquity,” Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin 45 (2000): 2.

[9] P. R. Moorey, Ur ‘of the Chaldees’ – a Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Wooley’s Excavations at Ur (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982), 111.

[10] Yamauchi, “Attitudes Toward the Aged in Antiquity,” 2.

[11] C. A. Hill, “A Time and a Place for Noah,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 53, no. 1 (2001): 33-34.

[12] S. Kubba, “The Ubaid Period: Evidence of Architectural Planning and the Use of a Standard Unit of Measurement —The ‘Ubaid Cubit’ in Mesopotamia,” Paléorient 16, no. 1 (1990): 46.

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[14] H. Pringle, “The Cradle of Cash,” Discover (October 1998): 61.

[15] B. L. Waerden, Science Awakening (Groningen: Noordfoff, 1954), 37.

[16] H. W. Saggs, The Greatness That was Babylon: A Survey of the Ancient Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley (New York: Hawthorn, 1962), chap. 13: Mathematics and Astronomy, 451.

[17] D. J. Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics (New York: Dover, 1967), 27.

[18] Friberg, “Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records,” 117.

[19] E. M. Plunket, Ancient Calendars and Constellations (London: John Murray, 1903), 2-3.

[20] Friberg, “Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records,” 110.

[21] J. F. Scott,AHistory of Mathematics—From Antiquity to the Beginnings of the 19th Century (London: Taylor and Francis, 1969), 10.

[22] Saggs, The Greatness That was Babylon, 448–9; and Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, 25.

[23] Friberg, “Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records,” 110.

[24] K. R. Nemet-Nejal, “Mathematics,” in Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998), 83.

[25] C. Hyers, “The Narrative Form of Genesis 1: Cosmogenic, Yes; Scientific, No,” Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 36, no. 4 (1984): 212.

[26] Waerden, Science Awakening, 40.

[27] D. W. Young, “The Influence of Babylonian Algebra on Longevity Among the Antediluvians,” Zeitchrift für die Altestamentliche Wissenschaft 102 (1990): 322-323.

[28] Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus on Egypt, 32.

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[31] I. Shaw and P. Nicholson, eds., The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (London: British Museum-Harry Abrams, 1995), 173.

[32] Oppert, “Chronology,” 68.

[33] Young, “The Influence of Babylonian Algebra on Longevity Among the Antediluvians,” 326.

[34] U. Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 2, trans. Israel Abrahams (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1972), 265.

[35] J. M. Egan, The Fullness of Time (Elmira: Sator Press, 1990), 5.

[36] Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 2, 175-176.

[37] Hyers, “The Narrative Form of Genesis 1,” 213

[38] E. A. Speiser, Anchor Bible Commentary: Genesis, v. 1 (Garden City: Doubleday, 1981), 42.

[39] U. Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 1, trans. Israel Abrahams (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1972), 258-259.

[40] Ibid, 264.

[41] W. H. Green, “Primeval Chronology,” chap. 7, The Bibliotheca Sacra (Andover: Draper, 1890), 302-303.

[42] J. H. Raven, Old Testament Introduction – General and Special (New York: Revell, 1910); P. P. Pun, Evolution – Nature and Scripture in Conflict? (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982), 259.

[43] Borland, “Did People Live To Be Hundreds of Years Old Before the Flood?” 169.

[44] Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 1, 264-265.

[45] J. Klein, “The ‘Bane’ of Humanity:ALifespan of One Hundred and Twenty Years,” Acta Sumerology 12 (1990): 62.

[46] Ibid, 69; Harrison, “Reinvestigating the Antediluvian Sumerian King List,” 4.

[47] U. Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 1, 254; and D. J. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1-17 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990), 254.

[48] Green, “Primeval Chronology,” 302.

[49] Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 1, 12–7.

[50] Hyers, “The Narrative Form of Genesis 1,” 208–15; and P. H. Seely, “The First Four Days of Genesis in Concordist Theory and in Biblical Context,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 49, no. 2 (1997): 85-95.

[51] Cassuto,A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 1, 14-15.

[52] Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 2, 30-32.

[53] E. G. Richards, Mapping Time: The Calendar and History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 224-225.

[54] Ibid, 225.

[55] Green, “Primeval Chronology,” 286.

[56] Green, “Primeval Chronology,” 286.

[57] A. Frumkin and Y. Elitzer, “The Rise and Fall of the Dead Sea,” Biblical Archaeology Review 27, no. 6 (2001): 50.

[58] G. R. Morton, “The Mediterranean Flood,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 49, no. 4 (1997): 245; and Morton, “Dating Adam,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 51, no. 2 (1999): 88.

[59] R. L. Cann, M. Stoneking, and A. C. Wilson, “Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution,” Nature 325 (1987): 31-36; M. F. Hammer, “A Recent Common Ancestry for Human Y Chromosomes,” Nature 378 (1995): 376; S. I. Whitfield, J. E. Sulston, and P. N. Goodfellow, “Sequence Variation of the Human Y Chromosome,” Nature 378 (1995): 379–80; Ross, The Genesis Question, 109–10; and B. Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve (New York: Norton, 2001), 49.

[60] Borland, “Did People Live to be Hundreds of Years Old Before the Flood?” 178.

[61] L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, P. Menozzi, and A. Piazza, “Demic Expansions and Human Evolution,” Science 259 (1993): 641.

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[63] Hill, “A Time and a Place for Noah,” 24-25.

[64] Green, “Primeval Chronology,” 286, 297.

[65] Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 1, 2, 254.

[66] Hyers, “The Narrative Form of Genesis 1,” 209, 212.