Agree or disagree: The universe is no more than 10,000 years old?

Question

Even though we've found man-made objects -- not to mention fossils -- much older than that?

Inspired by this:

Some 46 percent of Americans take a literalist view of creation .... This means that 120,000,000 of us place the big bang 2,500 years _after_ the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. (Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith")

Answer 1

Oh, we all know the olden days were just like the Flintstones and the bible says.

Answer 2

This is a tricky question, as scientists claim to be able to carbon date, many ancient artefacts to millions of years ago. How? How exactly can a piece of rock be dated that far in any certainty?
Personally i think the one thing that for me goes against the 10,000 years old is the advancement of of the human race, To unravel human advances to this day, we as humans must have been here a lot longer than that, we have advanced so far as to still be throwing balls and batting balls, and shooting and killing each other in more clinical ways than ever before.That kind of progress does not happen over night.

As far as the big bang goes i have to say that i've never heard of an explosion creating anything other than mayhem and death, so i'd have to say that i think that is absolute S*it.

Look at the big bangs going on around the world right now, and if you see anything moving after such a relatively small explosion, what would happen after one on the scale that these scientists have stated. Death. Not life.

Good question though

Answer 3

I'm not surprised that beer was one of the first things invented :-)

I am Christian and I think the universe is a heck of a lot older than 10,000 years. Many Christians have no problem with evolution and it's sad to see this viewpoint becoming marginalized. There is an alternative between the extremes of young earth creationism and atheistic naturalism. It's discouraging to see more Christians jumping to the extreme side because it makes the rest of us look anti-intellectual.

Answer 4

who told you the fossils were much older than that? You need to check your sources. Do you believe everything your told? What if the source you got your information from had an agenda? DO your research on carbon dating and other forms of dating methods from different sources (Christian and the universities and the media) and you will find a very big surprise. DO you really believe in the Big Bang? I do believe the universe is about 10,000-12,000 years old. You will find most fossils are about as old as the flood when the animals died. Check your facts and you will find I am right.

Answer 5

As Carl Sagan might say the universe is Billion and Billions and Billions of years old.

I have a theory that conforms to both Genesis and the Big Bang theory.

In the beginning, God created the singularity, and it was without form and void. Then God said, "LET THERE BE A BIG BANG", and there was a Big Bang.

Answer 6

The very fact that we can see 13 billion light years away from earth is testament to the age of the universe being at least 13 billion years old...

If we can see 13 billion light years away from Earth, as we can with such instruments as the Hubble Space Telescope, then that confirms that the LIGHT we are viewing has been traveling for 13 billion years... There's no denying it.

Anyone who says the universe is 10k years old, is fooling himself.

Answer 7

Well, being that they can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that it takes about 210 million years for our earth to make one revolution around our galaxy and that it takes the light from stars so long just to reach us says something.
They live in bizarro universe, they don't even know that if it were true, all the crap they believe, we would be living in a different reality-- there would very few stars to see in the sky.--IT would take thousands and thousands of years for us to travel at our speed just to get to the next closest star besides our sun.....

Answer 8

Disagree strongly.All empirical evidence states otherwise.God gave us all an advanced thought process for a reason.It's a pity some people cannot or will not use it.
I'm not being rude,I just think people should try to read the Bible with discernment.It is Gods personal letter to us and we should each try to understand it as best we can.Some people are just lazy.

Answer 9

In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd. 10,000 years ago is the ranting of delusional superstitionists.

Answer 10

Second Peter chapter three, not sure what verse, claims the world is much older.