The earth have gone through extreme conditions and
extreme temperatures. Could it be possible that the radioisotopes decayed much very much faster, making it look like the earth is billions of years old?
2006-06-23 01:11:43 · 12 answers · asked by raoul 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
the bible is about philosophy and religion and a history of a people. It is not a science text book. it does not use empirical methods, nor does it require them to be used. If you believe in the Bible it's because of your faith not your reason.
A basic idea in science is that if light travels at 186 000 miles per second today on earth it also does in the rest of the universe both in the past and in the future and if oxygen has 8 electrons on earth then it also has them on Saturn.. These and many others are the building blocks for a sane reasonable universe.
those who try to conform the universe to biblical teaching must out of sheer necessity create a crazy world where a day isn't t really a day and a year isn't really a year and all of your reliable baselines are skewed.. it becomes lunacy.
The war is over ,Galileo Copernicus and Newton were right
The biblical version of the universe is wrong -give up
2006-06-23 02:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, speeding up radioisotope decay would require boosting the amount of radiation given off by radioisotopes. Contracting 4.5 billion years of radiation emissions into 6000 years would blow the world up like a giant nuclear bomb.
The bible doesn't actually say how old the world is, the number was fudged up by someone who knew that good little christians would be too timid to double check. Good little skeptics have looked, and the numbers required for the calculation aren't there.
2006-06-23 10:44:08 · answer #2 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
then how would have humanity survived these extreme temperatures?, and why would humanity not write down the experiance of theses temperatures?, and why would there not be any evidence of these temperatures beside the radioisotope decay?, and if God helped the people survive these temperatures how come it doesn't mention this in the Bible. also I'm not even sure temperature would effect the radio isotope decay. also this wouldn't explain why starlight that came from stars millions of light years away is just getting here now without the millions of years to travel the distance
2006-06-23 08:19:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not really sure. When God has impacted someones life, then I don't think the age of the Earth would really sway their standpoint.
The Bible isn't a bunch of "fairy tales". Its more like a big love letter.
Christianity isn't a religion, its a relationship; and I think a lot of people, in light of their own ignorance, fail to recognize that. They call the Bible a "fairy tale" because they don't understand what Christianity is really about- a relationship with your creator.
We've all heard about "Jesus a dying' for the sins of the world". What many who have never been to a church or picked up a Bible realize, is that there is a lot more to it than that.
In Jesus' sacrifice we are free from sin, but we are also are given the ability to talk to him! This is what prayer is all about.
Christianity is unique from every other religion in the world in that it isn't about following a bunch of rituals, or chanting a bunch of verses. Christianity is about having a relationship with a God that can relate to us, understand us, and that loves us, more than we will ever know.
When someone excepts Christ into their life, they are changed indefinitely. Its that undeniable change that occurs in a person earnestly seeking God that gives authentic Christianity so much power.
So, I probably didn't answer your question. I just wanted ot clarify that Christianty isn't, nor has it ever been, all about reading a big collection of made-up tales and fables and singing boring songs. Its about getting to know our creator, and lallowing him to work in our life- to make us into who he wants us to be.
2006-06-23 08:40:02 · answer #4 · answered by parakeet_jim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible says many things but no matter how much people claim it - the bible does not give an age for the world. Never has, never will. No matter how many people go through geneologies and things the bible will never give an age of the world - thats not the point of it.
2006-06-23 08:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by casperpdavies 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are scientifical proofs that earth is as old as it says in the Bible, but even if it's true, that doesn't prove that the Bible is right about anything. It is a book of fairytales, mainly stolen from other books.
2006-06-23 08:15:01 · answer #6 · answered by labia_maiora 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The half life time of radioactive materials is very distinctive of each, which is precisely the reason why they are used in dating. Radioctive decay happens via the weak nuclear force, and shouldn't be affected by changes in temperature, pressure ext.
2006-06-23 08:43:11 · answer #7 · answered by evil_tiger_lily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe the creation story in the bible than the question of human trying to estimate when the earth come into existence will cease, after all does it really matter now??
2006-06-23 08:37:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is true what is written in bible. because the earth has been passed through the various tempretures and it is also seperated from sun and sun is more than 100 yrs old and hence, it is true that earth is equal to the age what is written in bible.
2006-06-23 08:31:24 · answer #9 · answered by gauri_ad12 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems very unlikely, since the Bible math says the world was formed at 4004 BCE.
We know that the cave painting as Lascaux are much older than that
2006-06-23 08:16:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋