or is it thousands more years, like evolution says.
i mean, how do you explain the native indians, who were around for 16,000 years if the biblical earth is 8,000 years old.
2006-06-25 02:26:34 · 17 answers · asked by ! 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No the bible is just a story book that idiots take too seriously.
2006-06-25 02:30:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
More like billions, roughly 14 billion
the sun and earth are near 4 billion
life on earth 2 billion
early man 400,000
homo sapian 50000
here is a scale to get a grasp of these numbers.
say 1000 is equal to 1 inch
then 1 million would be 83 feet
and 1 billion would be 15 miles
the universe would be 200 miles long on this scale
of that man has been around for 4 1/2 feet
and your lifetime at most would be 1/10 of an inch
2006-06-25 09:39:58 · answer #2 · answered by JCCCMA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible doesn't tell us it's only 8,000 years old, where does it say that, what scripture. It doesn't mention dinosaurs which is a big deal to many but it doesn't give a timeline. Many take the stories in the bible and make it out to be 8,000 years by the "ancient" things that happened around the time people "believe" they happened. This earth is millions of years old but man wasn't here millions of years ago.
2006-06-25 09:30:24 · answer #3 · answered by www.travelerforlife.com 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hahahaha! Wow... it thinks the earth is 8,000 years old. There goes a big chunk of the history we've all been taught. And forget about the ancient ruins of most countries, I mean, those must be earlier than the archaologists figured. The Native Americans, psh, history is totally wrong, they came here 12,000 years later than history tells us. <
Gosh, people can be so naive.
2006-06-25 09:30:53 · answer #4 · answered by Andee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... I have to believe that this is one of the more inane questions about the bible that I have encountered here.
Most specialists have decided that the 8,000 biblical "years" are more like milestones than units of actual time. That means those 8,000 years could be 8 billion or more years in actuality.
2006-06-25 09:31:10 · answer #5 · answered by optimistic_pessimist1985 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh bloody...where to start? It depends if you are a Literalist yahoo or a more rational person who should have realized that God's word can and has been misinterpreted by us humans. In short the Universe is NOT 8000yrs old!!! It is far older, billions of years probably, but only God knows its exact age (and incidently God himself never explicitly mentioned it in the Bible.)
2006-06-25 09:49:50 · answer #6 · answered by betterdeadthansorry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believing in a "Young Earth" means disregarding evidence that is right there in front of us. Personally, I think much of the Bible is hogwash, but even so.... I don't think it was ever intended to be taken as literally as the rabid fundamentalists do. I'm figuring that God gave us brains for a reason.
2006-06-25 09:31:17 · answer #7 · answered by squirrel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the universe is billions of years old, bible lie about that part. we have evidence that earth already exist more than 8000 years old. dinosaur where here millions of years ago.
Once I have to argue with my cousin about this as well, only difference is that the bible taught her the earth is about 300 years old.
2006-06-25 09:34:29 · answer #8 · answered by 2feEThigh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible says lots of whacko things. remember, people thousands of years ago used drugs, too. and then the bible was censored and added to in the middle ages...rememebr the king james VERSION. why so many people put faith in a novel that has had so many different contributors and editors is unthinkable
2006-06-25 09:32:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible does not give an age of the universe, a moot question.
2006-06-25 09:36:17 · answer #10 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋