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You *could* guesstimate based on those things... whether it would be even close to accurate or not is very debatable however. First of all, inherent within your question seems to be an assumption that the creation all happened within one year. Several religious scholars believe that God's time is incredibly different than our own. Some even assert that God doesn't measure time for himself, but created it for us. He is eternal, so our minutes, days, and hours may have little meaning for him. Each creation period (translated as "days" in many versions of the Bible) would not necessarily mean the same thing as our 24-hour days. Some believe that the creation periods were excessively long in order to incorporate evolution or other scientific ideas into the process. Others believe that God created the earth from material found elsewhere in the Universe and not "ex nihilo" as some religions believe. Some believe that God planned everything out for a long, long time, and then did actually create the earth in 6 of our days. ... you would have to decide which you believe, and the estimate would only be good for others who believed exactly as you did.
After hurdling that obstacle, you would have to confront the differences in generations. We don't know how long people lived, or how long they lived before they had children... especially in the early Genesis chapters before a limit was set on how long people traditionally lived. Reportedly, several people in Genesis lived hundreds of years, and so fixing those generations would be challenging. Admittedly less so, for a guess, than the first hurdle, though.
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James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh used Old Testament genealogies to calculate that the world was created in 4004 BCE on the evening of 22nd October. Had he used Matthew, he would have arrived at a different value, because Matthew omitted Kings Jehoash, Amaziah and Uzziah who were recorded in Kings.
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