Is there any proof the earth is only 6000 years old?

Answer 1

No reliable evidence. However, using radiometric dating, particularly potassium dating (radioactive potassium has a half-life of 1.5 billion years) we have learned that all the radioactive potassium present on earth is at about 13% radioactivity. This shows that the earth is at LEAST 4.6 billion years old. The only natural way we know to add radioactivity to potassium and many other elements is from a massive solar wind, one which we believe occurred when the sun began fusion, which blew all the small particles of the solar system away (which is now the Ort cloud).

The only reason people think the Earth is 6000 years old is because a monk sometime between 1300 and 1700 used the Bible to count the generations between Adam and Jesus, and figures the earth to be about 6,600 years old. Even if this is true, that is assuming the Earth was created at the same time as man.


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20mommy05, the sun does not "burn". It fuses its elements together. It uses all of its elements, first it fuses hydrogen, then helium, then lithium, and so on until you get to the sun being composed almost 50% iron, at which point it is incredibly difficult to continue fusion.

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To those people who pointed to Kent Hovind, you do realize taht his doctor degree is fake right? He went to his schools and paid them a LOT of money, and they gave him a doctor certificate. These schools are unaccreditted as well, so they do not provide reliable educations.

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His Divine Shadow, how do you explain all the stars in the universe? We know that light cannot go faster than the speed of light, yet some of those stars are billions of years away. Therefore, God had to create the light from those stars already on route and almost here. What is the point? Why make the earth look old? To confuse us? Oh, so confusion is one of those all-loving God things right?

Answer 2

There is lots of proof that it is not. The radioactive half-life of carbon is a very reliable way to gather age data about prehistoric fossils. Many of which are millions of years old. This methodology has been used successfully again and again with very predictable and reproducable results. That is only one tidbit of proof that the Earth is NOT 6000 years old.

Answer 3

that's all crap...in the Quran it says it took God 6 'days', each day is 50,000 years...scholars used the einstein time dilation equations using these entries and had come up with 18 billion years as the age of the universe, now it is also stated that God created the earth in the last 2 'days' which is 1/3 the time span, giving the age of the earth as approx. 6 billion years and not 6000...they forgot another 6 zeros (probably confused with their 666!!!)


please tell me frankly what to believe: the bible or the Quran???

Answer 4

The only thing that I have ever heard supporting the theory of a young earth is that the sun burns off about 1 mile of its surface every year. Now adding billions of miles to the sun would likely be so hot that the earth would denigrate... I heard that YEARS ago and I haven't seen any other supporting information since then. Now I am not sure exacly how true this is though.

Answer 5

Who said the Earth is 6000 years old? The bible certainly didnt. The Earth was formed over billions of years. And I'm a Christian. The Bible's referance to days refering to time periods. Those "days" refered to in the bible could have been millions or billions of years.

Answer 6

The earth is more than 6000 years old , carbon dating has proved that . In a biblical sense 1000 years is a one day to God . 2nd Peter 3:8

Answer 7

If GOD is an all powerful being, he probably could have made the world 6000 years ago, but make it look older than it is. When you think about it, we have been doing that for years. How many of those middle ages movie sets you see are actually from the middle ages? Probably none. If a human can make a castle look centuries old, I doubt an all powerful deity couldn't do better.

Answer 8

No, most rational people know that the earth is not 6000 years old. I think a more compelling question is "Is the bible, from where I presume you draw your inference, a reliable source of rational information?" Again I say no. The bible is neither a basis for rational nor spiritual truth. Nothing in it can be proven, and it uses itself to prove itself. The bible is a circular inference. Furthermore, what can be empirically proven by comparison of original scripts is that early scribes of the written bible altered, omitted and edited biblical content to motives that were probably ulterior. Perhaps this is what you want to say by posing such an absurd question.

Answer 9

None that I have found to be compelling.

Having said that -- the Bible does not say anywhere that the earth is only 6000 years old.

I am an old-earth step-wise creationist.

I used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ (e.g., see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html ).

Cordially,
John

Answer 10

Here's one to make ya think.

When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, he sunk one half inch into the dust on the moon surface. According to dust particle fall rate over millions of years, he would have sunk three feet.

Think about it!

In addition, here's another.

If God created the earth and all things, and has all power to do anything, couldn't He instantly create a billion year old planet? Was Adam born a babe child and then grew up? Seems Adam bypassed the years of growing into a man, but was created a man, not a babe child. The earth just set the precedent.

Answer 11

The earth is not. Is there any actual proof that the earth is any exact age? not for humans.
Again, any who dogmatically insist the earth is 6000 or 7000
years old is missing the point.
Check my answer at link.