If Bishop James Ussher’s calculations taken from dates given in Scripture are correct, man has been on earth for about six thousand years. The date he gave is 4004 B.C.
“Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.” John 18:28.