People who think the universe is only a few thousand years old. Why when we know it's not?

Question

We can date meteorites using isometric dating of Uranium which are left from the formation of the solar system which show that the solar system is 4,550,000,000 years old we know this is true. (We have to use meteorites as the rock cycle destroys Earth's old rocks)

Answer 1

People who believe that the univers is only a few thousand years old don't ask why. They have faith. Faith = the opposite of reason.

The old guy in the cloak and the funny collar told me what to believe because it is written down in this very old book. The book it so old that it must have been written by god and therefore every word of it is true. That make sense to all those who want to believe it.

Answer 2

The answer that raises the fact science changes is a great answer. One sided, but a great answer. Heres the thing though. Science CAN change when wee find out something was wrong. We NEVER NEVER stop trying to find out WHY HOW WHEN WHAT AND WHERE. If it contradicts what we already "KNOW" it may take a few hundred years or a few decades or a few months to change the text books, but it WILL change untill something better comes along. Religeon CAN"T change. The earth is still the center of the universe, the sun still goes round the flat earth, and its still under 6000 years old.

No change. yet we've circumnavigated the world, can prove the earth goes round the sund, and that dinosaurs exsisted millions of years ago. who knows how old it is exactly? no one. but science is at least questioning it.


As for "transitional" fossils. hey i'm looking for em myself. HUNDREDS of others are too. Just because we have yet to find them does not mean they cannot exsist. We have found others though and that gives us an insight into what and where we could be looking. We are trying to learn. Yes "facts" change, some easily some not, but eventually we learn and move forward. And we're getting better with it. How many of us use computers? Each and every one that does is going against god. your sitting infront of a silver and gold idol. you spend your time on it, and thus are considered to be worshiping it. . read the bibles defination of worship... its uncanny how close it is to sitting in front of your compt reading this. Quick throw out your computer. god is watching.

Answer 3

*shakes head in sorrow*...

Science knew for a fact that maggots came from rotten meat.
Science knew for a fact that the process that could turn lead into gold could make a man immortal.
Science knew for a fact that mercury, when ingested, would increase a person's lifespan.
Science knew for a fact that all of the creatures from the dinosaur era had died off.
Science knew for a fact that bloodletting was healthy.
And just two weeks ago, science knew for a fact there were 9 planets in the solar system, not 8.

Now, you may look at the past and laugh at science's foolishness... but know that one day... science then will look back on today, laugh, and call such dating methods, "the ignorance of the past".

Man does not know everything, and to believe so is foolishness. How can you trust the very people who don't know what a planet is, to tell you how old that planet is? How can you trust the very people who paradoxically say "Scientists once believed that flies spontaneously generated from meat, and we know that is wrong, since life only comes from something capable of reproduction... but life itself spontaneously generated from non-life"? How can you trust the very people who once believed that the Theory of Relativity was a constant, but now believe that it has the potential to be a variable, depending on conditions?

How can you trust the very people who proclaim, "I know the truth"... yet their decendants say "They were wrong. I know the truth"?

I mean... come on... scientists don't know whether to classify slime mold as an animal, a plant, a fungus, or a bacterium. Will you still believe them when they finally decide and then later, change their mind? I mean, after all... for a great many years, it was considered a "fact" that mushrooms were plants... that is, until the fungus kingdom was declared.

What is "fact" today will be "nonsense" tomorrow.

Answer 4

No one can pin point how old the universe is. The most we can do in estimate how long man has been alive.

Anyone should be able to understand that it took a very long time to form the vastness of the universe.

Answer 5

before I answer, I am going to say that I grew up in a VERY conservative Christian home, and have abandoned MANY of the things that were taught to me. 7 day creation taking place a couple thousand years ago is one of those beliefs. I no longer really CARE how old the Earth is.

At the time I was in high school, creation scientists pointed to flaws in the carbon dating system to say the earth was actually only a couple thousand years old. Makes no sense, you say? Of course not. Why do you think I eventually abandoned this set of beliefs, lol. :)

You can't argue with a fundamentalist. If you say he is being illogical, he says you have to have faith. Then, when you get irritated with him for being so naive, he says God is working on your conscience and THAT is what is upsetting you. The fundamentalist is proud to be close minded and stubborn. You can't win; just give it up now and be glad that you have more freedom. :)

Answer 6

Science just in the last few days has changed their minds on how many planets are in our solar system.When you get down to the
nitty gritty it is someones opinion anyway.Carbon dating has been proved wrong,medical science has been proved wrong over and over.
They have said that Sodom and Gomorrah were not even real city's
but archaeological digs proved them wrong.They have been found and
were buried in ashes.
The earth is a lot less older than people think.We have been brainwashed by public education for the last 60 years+.Like I said give
me Gods Word the Bible it don't lie.No body but God knows the exact age of the earth he created it.
In Christ in Love,
TJ57

Answer 7

universe could be older than anyone can imagine. it wouldnt even make sense to be a few thousand years old. even if you take christian creation into account, (the 7 days creation), first off our definition of a day is th eearths rotation about its axis, which would mean that the first day couldnt have been measured in our standards (cause god didnt make the earth first) hence those days are jsut a symbolic period of time, which could span for millions of years. plus the people in biblical times lived up to 900 years old. =\ (according to the bible)

Answer 8

I am so glad to have the opportunity to converse with someone who was around back when the earth was formed. Carbon dating doesn't impress me much and the study of asteroids impresses me even less. Only a few days ago was it announced that they now believe that Pluto is not a planet after all.

Answer 9

The earth is spinning slower. Good for a Young Earth devistating for an old one as the earth would spin too fast to keep anything on the surface.

The moon is leaving the earth 5-7 inches a year. The moon governs the height of tides. If the moon is billions of years old the earth floods twice a day. Only 6000 years old no issue.

The sun is shrinking every hour. If it is 6000 years old, no issue. If it is billions of years old, the earth, venus and mercury are inside the sun.

The testing of rocks is not reliable. Evolution has no proof.

Answer 10

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