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Is the date given in the Bible for the creation of the world correct? According to the Bible, it was October 7, 3760 BC, a date widely refuted by archaeological discoveries dating very different dates, on the order of millions of years.

This discrepancy between the information in the Bible and archaeological and scientific evidence has widely fueled the debate about the veracity of the information provided by “religion.” The main point here is that the Bible is not the only documentary source of ancient history, nor is it the book of the “only religion in the world.”

Judaism is a relatively recent religion, it was created from the arrival of several Semitic tribes from central Egypt to one of its most distant provinces, Palestine, the oldest known settlements of Israelites do not appear until 1230 BC, much later that the walls of Jericho were destroyed.

These are other chronologies from different traditions:

The Arabic calendar begins in 622 AD, although it does not state that the world began on that date, it is simply the date with which they begin their counting of time. 622 AD It is the year in which Muhammad, prophet of Islam, had to flee from the city of Mecca towards Medina (Hegira), due to the persecution of his adversaries.

The Roman calendar begins on April 21, 753 BC, which is the day of the founding of Rome.

The Vaisnava (Hindu) calendar begins on February 18, 1486, which is the date of Chaitanya's birth.

The Julian calendar begins on January 1 of year 1, which is the supposed date of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

According to Armenian tradition, on August 11, 2492 BC, Haig Nahabed, ancestor patriarch of the Armenians and descendant of Noah, defeated the Babylonian tyrant Bel, thus giving rise to the free and independent Armenian nation and the beginning of the ancient Armenian calendar. On the other hand, there is the list of the kings of Egypt that begins approximately 3,000 BC.

The list of kings of Sumeria, which, although it begins in 485,000 BC, marks a pause around 3,000 BC.

As we can see, the different chronologies use a very important event in their history to begin counting time, the only tradition that claims to begin with the creation of the world is the Judaic tradition, but that fact has already been denied, so we can argue and conclude that rather the rabbis began their stories equally based on a very important historical event. So important for both the Egyptian, Sumerian and Judaic chronology to mark it.

What happened in 3,000 BC? The answer can be found in another tradition further to the east, in the Vedas it is said that 3,000 years ago the last of the 4 yugas or eras that cover a cycle or mahayuga began. Was that event so important that it was marked in the history of the humanity in such distant places?

In the same Vedic tradition, specifically in the Mahabarata, it is narrated that as a watershed of the change of yugas a great battle occurred, the Battle of Kuruksetra that faced kings from all over the world, yes, a world war that obviously led to death. Of practically all the men of military age, only children, women, brahmanas (priestly class) and sudras (workers and farmers) survived. This led to a total social decomposition, which is also narrated in the Mahabarata itself (the beginning). A true “Great Reset”, to the level that gave the appearance that there was nothing before that event, but archeology has been gradually discovering those small remains here and there that evidence that there was “something” before the current civilization.

Let us remember that in many archaeological zones it is known that the older the architecture, the more advanced it is. This can be seen in Peru, Egypt, Türkiye, etc.

The Judaic religion is not the only one that sets a date for the creation of the world, the Vedas also speak of a date for the creation of the universe: The universe will last the same as the life of the Brahma that governs it:

"At the end of the millennium" means at the death of Brahmā. Brahmā lives for one hundred years, and his one day is calculated at 4,300,000,000 of our earthly years. His night is of the same duration. His month consists of thirty such days and nights, and his year of twelve months. After one hundred such years, when Brahmā dies, the devastation or annihilation takes place. [Srimad Bhagavatam]

That is, 30 days per month x 12 months = 1 year (360 days).
360 days per year x 100 years = 36,000 days
36,000 days x 8,600,000,000 Earth years = 309,600,000,000,000 Earth years is the duration of the universe.
Currently there are 50 years of Brahma, half of his life, that is: 154,800,888,000,000 (154.8 billion or million million years) is the age of the present universe. This figure is totally opposite to the less than 6,000 years that Judaism promulgates, but it is closer to the figure offered by current science.