How old do you believe this planet is??

Question

I've done a lot of looking into Dr Kent Hovind's site: www.drdino.com even watched his lectures and debates. Just curious on what any of you think. Personally, I'm going with 6,000-10,000 years...

PS - I have looked into Ken Ham as well....

Answer 1

I have studied this topic for nearly 4 years. I believe it is less than 7,000 years. I had trouble with this until I saw how things are dated. Then I knew that there was no "proof" of anything over about 5500 years old. Every thing over that age, whether 20,000 years or 4.5 billion years is speculation. I have worked in the science industry for about 30 years. I know my way around a lab. I certainly don't know everything, but I know these old dates given to fossils and rocks are speculation. Recent discoveries in DNA and Micro-biology have placed serious doubt in a lot of scientist minds about evolution. I know for a fact that creation is debated by scientists daily. Many can no longer support theories once held by the majority.

Answer 2

I belive God created the earth in 6 days around 6,000 years ago. I have also watched Dr. Hovinds videos, and I agreed with most of what he said, but you should do some reaserch on him. Try searching Dr. Kent Hovind on Wikipedia. A more credible sorce for creation science is Dr. Ken Ham.

Answer 3

Visit the Grand Canyon and look at how many layers there are and tell me that is 6000 to 10000 years of buildup. This guy is a cretin an ignores most scientific EVIDENCE to make his own short sighted point. Yeah, like the Dinosaurs are a hoax too. Go to Utah to the Dinosaur National Monument and see these giant footprints in the rock and imagine a Park Ranger sitting there with a Dremel tool making footprints. Give me a break!

Answer 4

This planet is anywhere from 4 billion to 4.5 billion years old. If you want the data to back this up do a search on radioactive uranium dating. The oldest rocks on earth can be dated past 3 billion years and from the moon over 4 billion. Hope this helps, anyone saying 6 to 10 thousand years is simply silly.

Answer 5

Even creationists agree that Dr. Hovind is an idiot. The earth is about four and a half billion years old.

Answer 6

Between 4 and 6 billion years old.

Kent Hovind isn't a doctor, he uses the title inappropriately. Many believers in God disagree with him, including other young creationists. He's full of crap:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind
http://www.kent-hovind.com
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind

Answer 7

The universe is estimated to be 13 -13.5 million years old in it's present form. In as much as I was not around to witness the beginning of everything (and neither were you), I have to say, "I don't know ........YET!". To suppose that some god my illiterate superstitious ancestors made up, excreted the universe all at once, out of his butt six thousand years ago is absurd. Religionists have to stop watching "The Flintstones" as if it was a documentary.

Answer 8

Personally, I think you need to take up science as a hobby. there is proof that the earth is more than 10,000 years old. But, then, you'd have to actually get an education to see it. By the way, are you talking man years, or god years?

Answer 9

About 4.5 billion years. Kent Hovind uses distortions, half-truths, and outright lies to try to make the facts fit his odd religious beliefs. If you educate yourself about what science knows and how it knows it you will be able to see through his deceptions.

Answer 10

I doubt highly we will ever know for sure.But science has dated the planet in the billions of years and that age is accepted by most scholars and academics and there is far more proof of that age then there is that it is only in the thousands of years old.But I guess if faith is what guides you then you can believe just about anything.

Answer 11

Science proven: The earth is billions of years old
Religious: 10 thousand.