768,000 * 6000 = 4,608,000,000

758,000 * 6000 = 4,548,000,000

But what’s 10,000 (or even 60,000,000) between friends? Wait what was this original post about? Oh yeah, math errors.

I didn’t read your post as meaning you’re a creationist and didn’t assume as such or anything. My apologies if I came across that way in mine.

Shush. The orthodoxy of Reason Triumphant needs not your experiential logic–we are haranguing the unenlightened heathen Believers!

First of all, as I’ve said before, that contrary to various blogger’s opinions, religion (creationism or ID) is not being taught in Texas public school science classes and none of the science textbooks contain any language suggesting that the Earth is only 6000 years old. My son is studying the solar system right now and guess what, he is being told that the solar system is 4.6 billion years old (gasp). Last year it was rock formation and guess what, he was being told that Earth rocks could be million and possibly billions of years old (gasp). Now some individual teachers may try to thrust their beliefs on their students, but as school policy, evolution is the only subject taught in Texas.

With regard to the math textbooks. First of all, it is 164 books and online materials, not just books. Second, in my school district, in addition to Spanish, materials are also available in Urdu and Vietnamese, so I see big possibilities for translation errors. There are also materials for special education students too. My son’s math textbook is approximately 925 pages longs and with 666 errors per book, that equates to something close to seven errors every ten pages. As a reviewer of articles for technical journals, I consider that to be well within a normal number of errors.

Also, please note that I’m NOT a creationist, the 800 year thing just struck me as incorrect without any qualifiers. Incidentally, people who think that KJV is THE Bible drive me nuts.

This is wrong – understandable, but wrong. One of my classes this semester was a 400/500 level history class, The History of Christianity to 1500. Taking your last point first, the four gospels of the New Testament weren’t even decided upon until well after the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE. The first true Latin version of the bible (meaning properly and carefully translated) was the Vulgate, which was completed in the early 5th century. And the gospels of the NT weren’t “published” together, between one set of covers, until the 9th or 10th century. So take your pick, but you really can’t argue that the NT is at least 1800 years old.

Incidentally, the Vulgate was also the first bible to be translated into Latin directly from the Hebrew, rather than the Greek, bible.