thousands of years ?
millions of years ?
billions of years ?
skwillions of years ?
and what single piece of evidence most convinces you on your opinion ?
2006-08-08 07:02:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Under 10k.
God says that He created Adam and Eve on what, the 6th day? then just do the math.
And yeah, they were real days.
2006-08-08 14:57:29 · answer #1 · answered by sharrron 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have heard some interesting views both ways. I tend to believe that the earth is a bit older than 6 thousand years. God created the earth in 6 days, who says how long His days were. A day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.
Can a finite being really understand that? I don't think so.
I use the plain logic when trying to answer this question. It really comes down to faith in God. Do you believe that He created the world or are we a fluke out of primordial soup.
I am not a fluke. I choose to believe in God!(with my freewill I might add).
or....we could just cut the earth in half and count her rings...
be blessed in Jesus.
2006-08-09 09:01:54 · answer #2 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
About 5 billion years old. The geologic record supports this as the sun was formed that long ago and the Earth started orbiting it shortly after. Simple life appeared shortly after this.
2006-08-08 14:07:30 · answer #3 · answered by Isis-sama 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wiki says it well, but I'm not familiar with their sources.
"Based on extensive and detailed scientific evidence, geologists have determined the age of the Earth to be around 4.567 billion years (4.567x109 years). This age represents a compromise between the oldest-known terrestrial minerals – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – and astronomers' and planetologists' determinations of the age of the solar system based in part on radiometric age dating of meteorite material and lunar samples."
Different civilizations and religions have different dates for "creation", but the first part makes sense to me, so that's what I go by.
2006-08-08 14:10:16 · answer #4 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wrong section try the science section. You will only get rubbish here people saying the world is 346 years old by adding up all the pages of the bible and dividing by 6.
2006-08-08 14:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The bible doesn't say how old it is, only that God created it and He told Adam and Eve to repopulate it. That seems to assume that the earth was once populated, so it could be thousands or millions, who knows?
2006-08-08 14:12:06 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Billions - evidence from enormously huge and complicated (not to mention expensive) telescopes worldwide.
2006-08-08 14:07:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Roughly 4.5 billion years old
2006-08-08 14:08:05 · answer #8 · answered by Austinite 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the earth is bill lions years old fossil record confirms this and so does the evolution of the planet and reading Richard dawkins books he explains it all .A master at work .
2006-08-09 20:38:59 · answer #9 · answered by wilhelm t rex 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think skwillion years
2006-08-08 14:15:19 · answer #10 · answered by roxy10 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋