To Non-believers?

Question

Can you give me one piece of evidence toward the earth being older then 6000 or so years in age? Mind you I am going to combat your eviendence.

1) The moon is leaving the earth. It ISgetting farther away each year. It also governs the tides. In the past of course the moon was closer. Causing the tides to be so strong that it would flood all of the earth twice daily. And not that long ago either.

2) The earth is slowing down. They call it a leap second. About every two to three years the earth spins one second slower per year. If you look in the past the earth was spinning faster. You wouldn't have to go that far back and everything on earth would fly off into space because of the speed of the earth's spin thus proving earth can;t be millions and millions of years old.

Oil has been shown to be made from just about anything in the matter of a few moments.

And the half life cannot be accurately determined as we have no knowledge of what decays faster in the past as we aren't sure of the environment or atmosphere which science can tell you would play havoc on the half life.

Answer 1

Alright, my Son, take off the cape and come sit down and have your tea. I see you've been reading far too many books again. Don't you know it stunts your growth when you do that? Now be a good little Bibleman and don't bother Mom with any verses right now. We'll save that for when your Father comes home.

Answer 2

"Causing the tides to be so strong that it would flood all of the earth twice daily."

Do you have any idea how long it would take to move that much water? Flooding the world twice daily? Last I checked that flood was 40 days and 40 nights, not PERMANENT.

This has t be a joke.



And PS-- you got leap-second completely wrong. There are leap YEARS, because one full cycle around the sun takes the earth approximately 365 days and six hours. So every four years, we add on an extra day to make up for the six hours we've been neglecting. A leap-second is about the same thing. Every so often we need to adjust our time by a very small amount-- not because the days are getting longer, but because they've always BEEN a little longer than we give them credit for. The length of a day doesn't change like that.


HAS to be a joke.

Answer 3

This has been asked too many times, and frankly, if you honestly believe in your (unsourced) information, then nothing any reasonable person can say will convince you otherwise. But just for amusement, try to explain this.

Assuming that ALL our radioactive decay dating methods are absolutely wrong and unreliable, there is still physical evidence of processes that took a lot longer than "just a few thousand years."

1) Animal and plant fossils (and no, God didn't put them there just to test our faith) located on the borders of two continents separated by a vast ocean suggest either tectonic movement at a rate of miles every year, or a few inches annually over a very long period of time.

2) The Earth is not a perfect sphere. The centrifugal force of the Earth's rotation accomplished this feat over a long period of time. If you look at the dilation or flatness of the Earth, it becomes quickly evident that it could not be accomplished over just a few thousand years.

3) Consider all the extinct species that we have found. Following your "rate" argument, it can be said that the rate of extinction was less in the past than it was now. Then how come an approximated 99.9% of all species out there are extinct?

A lot of your fallacious argument rests on the idea that our dating methods are inaccurate. So how come they have produced so many patterns including the KT Boundary and the Cambrian Explosion?

Perhaps the most damning evidence of all against your bleeding-heart claims is the idea of human intelligence. Humans have never existed outside of the Earth, making the Earth a closed population of all life. By assuming that the Earth is 6000 years old, you are assuming that the atoms of the Earth came together, developed water, synthesized amino acids and incredibly complex proteins, created RNA and DNA to direct the production of ATP and lead to cell division and sexual reproduction, all in about 3000 years (since recorded history can fairly accurately predict that humans were functioning in societies and very much alive at that time int he past).

Of course, what it all comes down to is this. If you believe that the beginning of Earth was creation by a divine being, there is nothing anyone can say that you can accept. In fact, if you do claim that the Earth is 6000 years old, why don't you write a book on it to combat the millions of books that deny your ideas. I would be interesting to hear your side of the story.

Answer 4

"Oil has been shown to be made from just about anything in the matter of a few moments."

Well, praise God. You've single-handedly solved the gasoline supply problem. Get George on the phone.

I cannot begin to say how much you're wrong. Well, you've made two true statements. The moon is moving away from the Earth (about an inch a year), and the earth is slowing down. Other than those, you piled so much sand over your skull I don't think I'd be able to dig you out.

Enjoy your life. Watch out for the sand fleas.

Answer 5

Your assumption in your evidence is dangerous: that things never change from/have changed to the direction which they are going now.

I strongly doubt your first bit of evidence, which states that the tides used to flood the Earth twice a day. I don't know of any historical documents that lend evidence to this claim, not even the Bible. The Great Flood doesn't even corroborate this claim, because it says that God made it rain for forty days and forty nights.

And how do you know that the Earth's speed has been slowing down at the same rate for all of history?

Answer 6

Unfortunately, when the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world, He muddied up the clues that would otherwise lead us to a scientific conclusion. By some accounts, this was a deliberate test of our faith; by others, he was drunk after creating the Beer Volcano or perhaps he was just not very consistent about details. However, now that the world is what it is, let us rejoice and not worry about it, since the FSM has made it impossible to tell anyhow!

Answer 7

Yeah, you're right.
Just one question for you, though. If the Jews are God's chosen people, why didn't He bury any oil under Israel while he was busy buryin' all them dinosaur bones for you to debate?
There are plenty of conspiracies and secrets in the world, but the age of the Earth and the origin of species aren't among them. While you waste your time on these things, REAL corporations, cults, and 'young earthers' are stealing your money for books, plotting to destroy your individual rights, and moving our manufacturing and technology jobs out of the country because there are too many idiots at home to do useful things for the future of our communities.

Answer 8

Have you heard about carbon dating.
The process measures the radioactivity of carbon to find out it's age ...
Some objects (livivng) have millions of years of age ...
Now I'm not atheist but I don't think that creation began 6000 years ago.

Answer 9

Aboriginal Australians, they've been proven by their artwork and artifacts to have been living in this country for 70,000 years. Long before the notion of 'god' ever existed.

Answer 10

Dude, it's been proven that the Earth is over several billion years old. Look it up.