Do you belive in the Bible?

Question

If you do, then you belive in creationism, so the Earth has only 6000 years... you can't throw away something just that you don't like it or if NOW it's proven to be wrong... but still, amuse me, prove to me that Earth has 6000 years!

Answer 1

No. No I don't.

I believe that the Bible was written to explain things that, at the time, seemed unexplainable. I am amused to read some of the backtracking explanations people have come up with to defend this ridiculous position.

Answer 2

Okay I can get you into my time machine and we can go. Seriously, scientist are changing how old the Earth is all the time. So I dont think you can utterly say that the bible time line is wrong just because the physical evidence we are able to gather today suggest an older time period. But if you dont believe in the rest of the bible there is not point in believe the Bibles time line of Earths history

Answer 3

Proving the Bible is 6,000 years old is easier that proving the earth is 4.6 Billion (or whatever they changed it to know to try and make the theory of evolution fit in to).

The distance from earth to the moon...if it has moved at a consistent rate about 1.5 million years ago it would be brushing up against your head.

The size of the sun burns at 6 feet per second +/-. if we where around a few millions years ago we would be char broiled.

Mountains...between landslides, mud slides, eartquakes, rain, water etc.... we would be a flat world by now.

Population. If man existed for millions of years we would have billions more people than we do. The current population can be calculated from about 4,500 years ago.

Speaking of 4,500 years ago. It is beleived the Ark was about 4,400 years ago. I mention this because it gives us some of our best evidence to a solid date for major happenings.....

Oldest tree in the world approx....4,300 years.

Oldest desert in the world 4,000 years.

Oldest coral reef just over 4,000 years.

Also it has been proven things can fossilize in less than 20 years in a large amount of water.

Also the oldest records of humans available is less than 6,000 years. Again this from a very inteligent specie that has been around for a million years yet nothing documented prior to 6,000 years ago!?! Odd!

It is difficult to prove an exact age on anything that has not been recorded. Science is trying to get a grasp on the hows and whys but they are constantly making errors on calculations and "educated" guess's.

The fact is historically the Bible has proved to be more scientifically accurate then science itself!

Answer 4

I believe in God---without the belief in the Bible. Because the Bible has been re-written 200 times!! In addition, I do think that the Bible, even though it is called holy, is nothing more but a good guide to clean, honest, and sober living.
I found discrepancies in the version of the German Lutheran Bible, and the King James version, and so I started to look at the Bible as a good source to clean living, and in addition as sort of a history book. However, I also found that a lot of the things in the Book of Revelations do come to pass---and so I am currently evaluating if I am a little extreme or what. Since I also read the books of Nostradamus' predictions, and comparing them do I have to say that a lot of his predictions are equal to the predictions of the Book of Revelations, did I come to the conclusion tthat there are indeed very gifted psychics who have the ability to see the future and that is what is written down.

The Bible is an important part of our daily lives, because our laws are founded in the 10 commandments, so are our moral and ethical values. But in essence do I believe in a higher power, much greater than any of us, and the Bible to me is a book with very good advice....

Answer 5

First of all, most people who "believe in the Bible" as being inspired by God in some manner do NOT accept the doctrine of young earth creationism (which is the general religious doctrine you've referred).

Your question seems a bit unfocused, but I think your question is in reference to what is called the irrationality of using "circular reasoning." A lot of young earth creationists claim that their belief is scientific, instead of just a religious doctrine - even though we all know that their doctrine is based on their belief in a literalistic interpretation of the Bible. But then when you show them where relevant scientific information from, say, geology or astronomy contradicts their belief, they turn around and ignore the science (i.e., ignore the empirical evidence) and say that young earth creationism must be true because "God said so" (by which they mean that they believe that this is what the Bible teaches). In other words, they start by assuming that the Bible must be true, and then proceed to ignore any of the physical evidence from geology and astronomy that contradicts their view, and then turn around and say that the Bible must be the Word of God because it's true! Of course, they've arbitrarily defined it (their doctrines derived from their interpretations of it) as "true" and then thrown out all actual evidence to the contrary based on their assumption, rather than on independently evaluating the physical evidence itself.

Of course, what most young earth creationists fail to realize is that every time they claim that it is obvious that the Bible teaches that God created the Universe and the Earth around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, they are actually proclaiming to everyone that they accept that the Bible teaches an basic idea about the world that the rest of us know is completely wrong. Which is pretty ironic!

Young earth creationism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_earth_creationism

Geologic time scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_timescale

SN 1987A
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN1987A

(SN 1987A is a supernova that exploded about 168,000 years ago. By observing events that took place in the distant past - which is what astronomical observation of any significant distance in the universe is - we know that the Universe has been around far longer than 10,000 years, so we know that young earth creationism is empirically false.)

Answer 6

Creationism and the earth age are two different subjects all together.

Anyone can read Gen 1:1-2
. Ultimatley HE created everything but we read God started creating on a earth that was already there.
The eart h could have been there one day or one billion years ago. The bible does not say.

Answer 7

I don't believe the earth is 6000 years old. The bible tells us that Adam and Eve were told to replenish the earth, by God. If it wasn't populated before, how could it be repopulated? I think this is where the dinosaurs came in.

Answer 8

The oldest "verifiable" artifact on the earth is 5500 years, That is the oldest date we have that all scientist will agree on. Now many speculate geologic ages using the geologic column as a guide. This dating method is about 150+ years old and is referred to as the index fossil method. Radio-metric dating methods that agree with the index fossil are "assumed" consistent with theory. They are not considered accurate-only assumed. So now-you show me that the earth is older that 6000 years.

Answer 9

"John"s answer is way too long to read, so if he already said this, i appologize....

I believe that the bible exists...i've seen it in many places. But the bible is just a book of stories, no more worth "believing" than the Davinci Code or Harry Potter. The worst thing about the bible is that it isn't even entertaining like those other books, and so basically it becomes totally useless. But book burning is bad, so just put it on your bookshelf to collect dust...it wont hurt anyone there. To summarize my book report, Bible = nonsensical crap.

(this review pertains to the hardcover version)

Answer 10

1)originally astronauts expected that the moon would have about 440 feet of dust accumulated after billions of years..yET they only found less than an INCH when they landed!! This proves that the moon (earth) are only less than 10,000 years old>>
2) if the earth was billions of years old,,there is NO way that the fossil fuels under their great pressure would remain intact after millions of years!!
3)the earths magnetic field has a half-life of 1400 years> If the earth was more than 10,000 years the its magnetic field would be as strong as a NEUTRON star!! (no way!)
4) if the earth was "billions of years old" then its current rotation would be ZERO!! (earth is losing speed by .00002 seconds per year)