Biblical Genealogies Skip Generations

Biblical genealogies sometimes skip generations. This may be due to the fact that in hebrew there are no words for things like grandfather or grandson, great grandfather or great grandson. And this can make it easy to skip generations when you are composing a genealogy. Many young earth supporters have taken the fact that the biblical gene alogies can skipt generations to heart and said, you know, you can use these genealogies to get back to around four thousand four b c. But there could be omissions in them that we don't know about, and the real date of creation could be further back. That's why you hear some young earth supporters saying that the earth might