Is the Earth young?

Question

Can anyone give me proof the Earth is young that is not found in the bible? I am looking for scientific evidence that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.

Comets do only last a few thousand years but new one are always coming into our solar system.

Space dust on the Earth is very little with most getting swepped to the poles so we would not be covered in dust.

The star would not have exploded from its age since stars have enough energy to last billions of years.

The sun is not shirnking. That idea came a about 40 years ago when its size was first started to be studied. The first few years it appeared to be shrinking but then it appeared to be gaining in size. What we know from all these decades of studying it is that is pulsates. People that believe in creation seem to only take the first two years of the study in account.

The equation for the declining speed of light as been proven wrong for the last sixty years.

DNA can grow longer from duplication and few other mutations.

Radiatiion from 2 million years ago could not have killed all life. That is just a myth like the sun's shrinking.

You are right if the solar system was several hundred billion years old but sorry to tell you it is only about 5 billion and the sun's size with its great denisty would not have changed that much in the last few billion years. However I do agree if the solar system was a few hundred billion years old. I will give you that, to bad it is no where near that age.

Answer 1

I have a miniature pyramid that says "made in egypt" on it, and Egypt is no more than 7000 years old, so that proves the earth is no more than 7000 years old.

...would you like another creationist argument?

Answer 2

This site

http://www.answersingenesis.org...

may show some detailed proofs. Amongst the evidences I can think of off of the top of my head:
1) The amount of dust on the moon
2) The diameter of the sun
3) The anthropic principle as viewed through the mathematics of probability
4) The canyon gouged by the explosion of Mt. St. Helens (made in 3 1/2 hours) compared with the Grand Canyon
5) Evidence of the declining speed of light { http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd... }
6) The mathematics of known nuclear elements and their half-lives (if the earth were 2 million years old, radioactive material {uranium} would have killed everything on the planet)
7) The probability mathematics of evolution of life from inanimate materials (universe isn't old enough yet for amoebas)
8) Intelligent design / micro evolution. DNA molecules cannot change length and reproduce, so all DNA as it appears was present at origins of species, showing creation / Creator. Micro-evolutionary changes insufficient to support 'ancient' species.


I also have put a couple of articles in my 360 blog.

EDIT: Since you are already a "person of faith", I will not 'argue' every single point with you. I will point out one obvious fallacy in doctrine you have adhered to, and leave the rest up to you. Thermodynamics states that matter can neither be created or destroyed, only changed back and forth to and from energy. As the sun releases energy, it's mass is being consumed, and it will eventually become a pulsar, collapse on itself and explode. In order for the sun to have been the energy source for life in this solar system to have spontaneously occur several hundred billion years ago, it either HAD to be either massively larger in diameter OR had to have massively greater density. In either case, the planets, orbital paths, etc. in this solar system would have been altered so much that the conditions for the "spontaneous generation of life" from the "primordial soup" could not have existed. And, if the sun did not exist, then there would have been no energy source. And, if there had been a 'succession of stars', the reprocussive force of the preceding failing stars would have destroyed all life in this solar system, if not destroy the solar system completely. These are all things which scentists have observed and understood, yet they will either use circular reasoning between fields of science, or just disregard evidence in favor of other things that 'support' their theory. But don't believe me. Study the life cycle of stars (the sun is a yellow star), study the basic precepts of gravitational interaction of planetary bodies, study basic physics, and decide for yourself. Bad science is bad science.

Answer 3

The moon gets slightly out of orbit every time it circles the earth. If the earth was millions of years old, then the moon would be revolving on the earth, and I would like to know how it got rolling and then how it got into space.
Comets melt a little each time they circle the sun. If the universe was millions of years old, they would have burned up long ago.
The sun is a star and would have exploded from age and if other stars heated the earth I would like to know how they were in the perfect position.
Also, the chances of one in a million monkeys typing Gen.1:1"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." would take them so long that the chance of evolution taking place is microscopic.
Are you convinced yet?!

Answer 4

Scientific evidence says the Earth is a few hundred billion years old, not a few thousand.


"any other star that is grows old."
The Earth isn't a star. The SUN is a star. The Earth is a planet, it will not explode.

Answer 5

Gen.1:1,2; All was in existence when earth became the focus for habitation,
It all must have been billions of years in time then.
Job.38:4-7; Angels were ther to see this.
John 17:3,5,24: Jesus was with God before the world was.
Satan was anointed over Eden, he is given 6,130 years to Rev.20:1-6 1000 year reign of Christ, this will end 49,000 years since eath became the focus as Gen.1:3-31; 2:2,4; Heb.4:1-14; All days are one and the same when complete, the last is 7,000 years, so each is as well. All will be as perfect as it was before Eden after 1000 years with Jesus.

Answer 6

No.

...and....No.


Earth: Iron, nickel, silicates, water and a few other handy things collected from debris orbiting a youthful star 4.6 billion years ago.

Old. Modern humans have been running around for less than 0.01% of this time.

You can find living trees a few thousand years old. Rest assured they didn't move here from somewhere else.

Answer 7

Does the earth have to be young, in order to prove that God created it?
There is not scientific evidence that the earth is only a few thousand years old. The rocks in my driveway are probably older than that. But again...how does that prove that God didn't create it?

Answer 8

i can't, cause it's not, the earth is at least a billion years old, and is slowly losing power and is going to explode, like any other star that is grows old.

Answer 9

all scientific evidence points to a very old earth.

Answer 10

yeah! what that guy /\ said
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