The bible is a history of about 4000 years which is eons away from the millions of years old the earth is. Can an educated geologist really be a literal Christian?
2006-07-12 04:32:09 · 17 answers · asked by norsktjej1964 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Everything Icy U put are valid issues, but they are all empirically solved. Of course, 'empirically' is a scary word to most Christians. And guess what, the bible is NOT evidence for anything.
You can have faith in the bible, but you can't use it in the scientific method. Scientists do not use faith, they use reporoducable data.
How could something like the Grand Canyon form in 6000 years... not just the hole, but the rock layers too...
2006-07-12 05:13:17 · answer #1 · answered by QFL 24-7 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
As a possibility, not saying for sure, but a global flood similar to the one in the bible would erode and deposit elsewhere the varying layers of dirt, which may make it appear that millions of years have passed in certain places, which may be where they are digging. There is also the possibility that with this certain areas show much less age on the earth, but that geologists and paleontologists are keeping quiet on this because it then goes against the ideas of the earth's beginning.
Also there is the fact that the bible only contains almost 6,000 years (and the number is closer to 6,000 years though not there yet) of human history, not earth history. The bible does say all other creatures on earth were created first. And the bible has shown in the past that it should not always be taken literally, sometimes because of translation from Hebrew and Greek to English, sometimes just the local idioms of Hebrew. The earth may well have existed millions of years before humans and the Hebrews' understanding of days as said in the bible may refer to thousands of years at a time.
2006-07-12 04:39:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most geologists with any education believe the earth is 4.6 Billion years old. That is quite a bit older than millions. Being a geologist and a Christian I find no conflict in a literal interpretation of the Bible. The Bible does not assign the earth an age. Correct interpretation of the Bible states that God took existing matter and organized it. It does not say how long it took to do so, or how it was done. God being God means that He is all knowing. He works with natural laws and is in fact, bound by them. God's first law is obedience. If He were to break this law He would no longer be God. He understands a great deal more about natural law than mortal man does. I am sure He knows how to use them to achieve His purposes.
2006-07-12 11:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is an account of history which has no limit on how old the earth is. The common misconception that it dates the world as around 4000 years old comes from the view that the flood happened around 2000 B.C. This has been shown to be highly plausible. The days before the flood could have stretched eons.
2006-07-12 04:37:18 · answer #4 · answered by mtoddgragg 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i will't believe how closed minded you're. the international all started with Adam and Eve, it would not count how formerly it became. Is it no longer a threat that dianasoars lived with human beings and were killed off by the great flood. Becuase to me it does no longer sound very logical that Noha ought to convey a male and woman T-Rex on his ark, which may clarify why there are nolonger any dinasoars. And why in the international does it count even as the pyramids were equipped? in the bible, it tells the total tale of who equipped the pyrimids. THE JEWS! It sound like you havn't examine the bible. in case you'll crytisize a faith, possibly you ought to study what they believe first.
2016-10-14 09:40:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They explain the errors which are used to 'prove' the world is billions (not millions) of years old.
Refer http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens211/radiometric_dating.htm
See equation 11 in the above website. To use that equation, you need to know the ratio of U235/U238 in a rock, since that equation was derived from equations 7 and 8.
Equations 7 and 8 are only valid for rocks which have Uranium. If you take a rock such as galena, which does not have Uranium, and apply equation 11, you are doing zero divide zero for U235/U238, since galena does not contain U235 and U238.
The very fact that geologists do not recognize that Pb206 in galena is primordial lead, and not radiogenic lead, is proof that they don't know what they are talking about. Galena has no uranium in it. If you asssume that galena contains radiogenic lead, then only if the rock is infinite years old, all the uranium could have decayed.
2006-07-13 17:59:47 · answer #6 · answered by peaceharris 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The earth is not "millions" of years old, but "billions" - 4.54 billion is the current best guess.
Some of my friends are also geologists and they go to church every Sunday. I don't dare ask what they are thinking! I suspect family traditions get in the way of science every seven days.
2006-07-12 04:43:58 · answer #7 · answered by minefinder 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Basically, they feel that geologist, archeologist, biologist are all wrong...that the science is flawed and that nothing is older then 4000 years. That's how it's explained...I've asked the same question (being a biologist myself) and that's the answer I've received.
2006-07-12 04:38:10 · answer #8 · answered by 1n51ght 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know a Christian who takes the bible literally, and he claims that God made the Earth to look like it's old. He claims God put the dinosaur bones there - that dinosaurs never really existed. Why God would do this beats me. . .
2006-07-12 04:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They don't - being a literal Christian is about being blind to scientific evidence and only believing what the preacher says the Bible tells him.
2006-07-12 04:39:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋