the world is not millions of years old?

Question

if the world is millions of years old then the sun would be right on top of earth because the sun is burning at a rate of 5 feet per second right now and add it up. also, the earth's magnitisim would be so strong that the tides would have flooded the lands twice a day. also, the rock layers were not made over millions of years, it was formed in the flood of noah. carbon 14 dating is also inaccurate because it can only date 30000 years. if you are a christian, catholic or believes in god, bible, or torah, then u r calling god a liar, which i wouldn't do.

Answer 1

You have no idea what you are talking about. Please leave your faith out of this area. This is an area for science, which is based on evidence and data, not faith.

THe age of the earth is based on:

1) dating meteorites. When we find a meteorite from this solar system that has a similar composition to earth, you get many young ages, but the oldest and most common date to 4.6 Ga (billion years).

2) isotope trends. When you look at certain radiogenic isotope ratios that change with time, like Rb/Sr or U/Pb, you find that many rocks with differnt ratios of many ages form a line, and the line traces back to an origin of 4.6 Ga as well.

The oldest life is 3 1/2 Ga, the oldest rock is about 4 Ga, and the oldest date ever found is on the highly durable mineral Zircon from Australia, it's date is 4.2 Ga. So, there is no direct method, it is based on inferences. However, many different inferences lead to the same number 4.559 Ga (to be specific).

You would have to throw out everything we know and love about Geology to accept a young earth view. When you look at the Grand Canyon, how can you say that only took 6000 years to form?

Answer 2

No offence, but I hate people like you. You make so many wild assumptions you don't even stop to think about it.

1. How the hell would the sun be right on top of us if it was burning at '5 feet a second'? Surely it would be smaller under that assumption. Not only that but do you realise how the sun actually works? Or even how big it is? During the lifetime of the sun, the sun will expand and compress over millions of years due to thermic/nuclear processes. So a few million years ago the sun was in a slightly different age and so in a slighty different process than it is now. My point being that the sun's size is dependant on it's age.

2. You have no idea what you're talking about with regards to the sun. Where do you get your misguided info from?

3. Rock layers formed during the flood? What planet are you from? You're saying this huge flood which covered the earth created rock layers? You're a moron. Not the mention the fact that such a flood would have killed all life. Oh wait, two animals on an ark? Do you even know how animals exist in this world as we know it today? Remember, God made all animals so whatever is here today must have existed back in noah's day. Since about the logists sunnyjim. How much food would noah need in order to feed evey animal on his extremely large boat. Not to mention the fact that noah somehow managed to gather every animal that exists today and stick em on his boat. Tall order if you ask me.

3. Carbon dating? You don't deserve to talk about carbon dating. Do you even know how it works? Certain atoms decay at certain rates. Some atoms will decay over millions of years. We can work out how old something is by the ratio of normal Carbon atoms to those of c-14 atoms. This is simple elementary school stuff and beleive me we can carbon date things a lot older than 30,000 years - which is still longer than 6000 years i might add.

4. when hubble looks at galaxies it's seeing them as they were millions of years ago. Something which any physics graduate can proove. Scientific fact

5. What you beleive as being true are simply the words of a human being who sat down with his pals to write a book based on ideas of which he didn't know any better. A few hundred years ago you could be killed by the vatican for saying the earth was not the center of the universe. Yet now we know this isn't the case. So who's right? The church certainly weren't. What i'm saying is that some of the teachings in that good book of yours aren't true because they are not words written by god (i believe in god by the way) - but I don't believe in this foolish notion of god creating the world in seven days, noah's ark, 6000 years ago.

Please educate yourself first before making such naive statements

Answer 3

Well then, what about dinosaurs, and even the periods before that (who's name is currently fuzzy to me)? There is proof of that, bones, and other clues of dinosaurs and the existance of other living creatures, which date back even a few billions ago. The sun is not burning 5 feet per second, otherwise Mercury and Venus wouldn't exist, especially Mercury, which is almost right next to the sun.

Rock layers WERE made over millions of years, how could rocks be formed in Noah's Flood anyways when there were rocks when dinosaurs existed?

God is not a real person, there is pretty much no proof he exists, and people can believe what they want and you can't stop them.

Answer 4

First off after reading other people's answers, I have concluded that this is a rather controversial subject. However, even though it is controversial, most answers seem to be against the statement. I also love the fact that even though the statement mentions Catholics, Jews, or anyone who believes in a god, most people choose to attack the Christians. Interesting....Anyway, I personally am not sure if I agree with the statement. However, I do not believe the earth is millions or billions of years old. This is because no matter how you try to defend it, science can NEVER completely answer the question of where we came from and why. For example, if evolution is true, the matter of which we evolved had to come from somewhere. But where? Science cannot answer this question. Also, to believe such a thing would be to say that murder is an ok thing to do. We are all accidents so what is the harm in destorying one or two? This all leads me to believe in a Creator.

Answer 5

As a geologist, I have studied many layers of soil. Some layers are built in floods. Some layers are built up yearly. There are layers of soil that I have seen that obviously took millions of years to build up. There are fossils in individual layers that confirm dates corroborated by isotopic dating techniques. It takes millions of years to create the mile thick layers and millions more for them to be compacted and turned to stone. It is OK to believe whatever you want but you should seek to make that an informed belief.

Answer 6

You are so right! It would take a supreme fool to think the Earth was millions of years old. Any educated person, other than a religeous nut, knows the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old.

Answer 7

God created the universe in six days and then rested on the seventh, which is the Sabbath. God's definition of a "day" might be totally different than ours. God is outside of time. I personally believe that the world is only a couple thousand years old.

Answer 8

Is this even a question? If it is, I should mention that I just so happened to see god today. There was a huge pillar of fire that came to me while I was walking my dog. He told me that the anser is . . . 42! And you cant prove that it didnt happen.

Answer 9

if you were really sure about all this you wouldn't be posting in here.
I suggest you work out your own beliefs.
When you are really secure in your own beliefs you won't care what other people believe because you'll know that someone believing something different to you doesn't threaten you in any way.

Answer 10

I'm glad to see that all the taxpayers' money being spent on education has had such a dramatic effect.