I read a book, now I am convinced that our universe must be older than 9000 years, about 15000 years I guess?

Question

even creation takes some time and effort

Answer 1

try billions of years old.

Answer 2

The Vostok ice core records 160,000 +/- 15,000 years of history. Since the ice in Antarctica can't be older than the universe, your guess of 15,000 years is a bit off.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/icecores.html

Here's a page that covers just three methods scientists use to estimate the age of the universe. Although the estimates change as scientists learn more, the universe is much closer to 15 billion years old than to 15 thousand.

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/age.html

JMB

Answer 3

15000 years? thats like a second for the universe! even humans have existed for over 2 million years...
try 20 billion years for the age of the universe...

Answer 4

Congratulations on reading a book :).

Last I heard, the scientific consensus is that the earth is somewhere near 4 billion years old. Even if it's changed, it won't be more than a billion years off one way or another.

Oh, and Bebe, you're right, except for three zeros :)... the universe appears to be about 14 billion years old. (14,000,000,000).

Answer 5

Your book must have been written by Dr. Phil !!! The universe is estimated to have taken billions of years since the "Big Bang" to reach its present borders. Even the number of these years is the subject of hot debate among astronomers.

Answer 6

The best available evidence suggests that the universe is between 12 - 14 milion years old.

See NASA web site -
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101age.html

I would be very interested in knowing what evidence suggests it is between 9000-15000 years old?

What do you think fossils are?

Answer 7

I would like to see the book that you read. IT'S probably that old !!!
I know you MUST be joking !!!No one could possibly that.
Look up the " Ice Age" or when Dinosaurs lived. ( and I'm not talking about Fred Flintstone )


It is currently accepted to be 13.7 billion years old

Answer 8

It is millions of years old. Recorded history dates back more than 2000 years, which means that humans were selfaware...had evolved enough.

Carbon dating of dinosaur fossils show them to be millions of years old. Are you believing them to be less than 15000 years?

Answer 9

Now read some science and see if you can stretch your new-found open-mindedness into the realm of reality which is somewhere around a million times those ages.

Answer 10

And your point is?????
Our universe is much, much older. There are many books on the subject.

Answer 11

What difference does it make? Stop trivializing stupid sh!t. There is more important stuff going on in the world!