Many Christians say Earth is 6000 to 7000 yrs old. Science says it is 4.5 billion yrs old. What do you say?

Answer 1

Scientists may be wrong, and if so, they'll say, "Hey, look! The Earth is actually 3 billion years old--lookit that big hole over there." Or "Ooops, it's 6 billion years old. Here's why we think that."

Creationists say "Belive this book because the book says 'Believe this book.'"

I say, "Go, science."

Answer 2

It's an open question for me.

The gap between the two is very wide. Scientists may revise their calculations and come up with new theories. Bible scholars may have new interpretations of the Word. We may think that one is right and the other is wrong. But it may be possible that both are wrong or both are partially correct.

We are assuming that the earth is progressing without a discontinuous event that may have drastically altered the timeline. We are also assuming that everything ages at the same rate through history and that no radiation materials from outside earth can alter such records. There are too many assumptions and speculations. We are talking about billions of years, many things can happen in that period. If you consider the God's timing, that is even further, from the alpha to omega, the beginning to the end.

Answer 3

Many Christians say the earth is about 6,000 years old because that's what a plain sense interpretation of the Genesis text tells us, not forgetting that this is also the dominant belief prior to the 1800s. Even the Jews who are not Christians state that this is the 5700+ years of the earth. Anyway, science does not say that the earth is 4.5 bya, scientists are the ones saying that. And scientists concluded that by ASSUMING certain things to be true. Nobody was there to testify to a billion years earth. But ALL RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY dates back only thousands of years. That, I think, is compelling evidence for a young earth.

Answer 4

I say science is just as much of a religion as Christianity. No one knows any of it for sure unless you experienced it first hand. And I know none of you were here on earth for 6000 to 7000 years let alone 4.5 billion.

Answer 5

i dont think i've ever heard any offical christian source say they thought the earth was only 6-7000 years old. And science says, "our best evidence at this point says the world is 4.5 billion years old" But since science has legitamit facts to back it up im afraid i have to side with science.

Answer 6

The Jews taught the six-day theory that the world would go on for 6,000 years and Christ would return on the 7th day, or the final 1,000 years of Revelation 20:4, and they based it on Psalm 90:4, and the Christians on 2 Peter 3:8 where it says that a day is like 1,000 years and 1,000 years is like a day. Since God created the world in 6 days, Genesis 1:31, 6,000 years and then rested on the 7th day, 1,000 years, so will it be.
This is interesting and the king is coming in John 1:49, the wedding is on the third day, chapter 2, verse 1, and Christ becomes our groom and that, of course, is Revelation 19:7. Then the Jews, listen to what they have to say. After two days, 2,000 years, God will revive us as a nation. That happened in 1948, almost after 2,000 years. Then they add, and after the third day, he shall raise us up. That's when Christ returns to set up his kingdom on earth. So the three-day theory is the New Testament that's total 7 day Theory is Old and New combined.

Answer 7

Richard, Regardless Of What Is Written In Genesis, The Fact Remans... Jesus Died For Our Sins And He Is The Only way To Salvation

Answer 8

Richard H,
I think that it's unlikely that any of us know. I am a Christian. The Bible, I believe, has a Gap between Genesis 1:1, and 1:2.

Answer 9

4.5 billion, proof the dinosaurs that are 400 millino years old, that's a little more than 7000.

Answer 10

All of this took 4.5 billion years to make for sure