6 thousand or several billion* how old do u believe the earth is?

Question

christian kid or science sucker? rofl i'm weird

Answer 1

Earth's age is based on several things:

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

The ways that the age of the Earth are measured seemed to be flawed to me. There is of course the evidence that is presented in the Bible. This is of course what the die-hard Bible believers will go by, generations of people mentioned in the old testament. If you ask me, that system is flawed. Man wrote the Bible, inspired by God. But still, Man wrote it, and since its creation it has been changed many times, and therefore it is flawed. Basically it is the same as the telephone game. Then you have the die hard scientists. These people will believe that if you test rock by some method, then what you get from that reading will tell you the age of the Earth. Once again, you have a flawed method made by man. What you have to do is consider for a moment that what we believe isn't the truth at all. The truth is something that we will only find when we reach our final destination. I am a scientist at heart, but I also believe that religion (Christianity for me) has a role in everyone's life. God created the Earth and the dinosaurs and man, etc. If He was able to do that, don't you think that it is possible that he can fool some machine that we made into believing that the Earth is older than it really is? Then of course, I believe that the Earth is older than 6 thousand years, simply because I do know some things about science, and am pretty sure about how some things work and how some things have happened. It is just a matter of faith, do you have to believe in a six thousand year old Earth in order to believe that there is a supreme creator? I don't believe so. Religion and Science for me occupy two different spaces in my head, and they overlap very little.

Answer 3

That 6000 thing started when some idiot added up all the ages of all the people mentioned in the Old Testament. Hardly a scientific way to measure the age of the earth. We know from radioactive decay in rocks that the earth is 4.3 billion years old this coming Tuesday.

Answer 4

The earth is 4,000,000,000 years old. The dinosaurs were even here long before 6000 years ago.

Answer 5

the Earth, part of the solar system, is 4.6 billion years old.

Answer 6

Hi. Kind of hard to explain stalactites in a 6,000 year old world. But you can try.

Answer 7

i believe it is more in the 6000 range. when scientists talk about species that inhabited the area i live, central california, they say that there were dinosaurs billions of years ago. then they talk about the indians a couple hundred years ago. they leave a few billions years blank in between indians and when dinosaurs became extinct

Answer 8

i believe god created this physical existence and it is billions of years old.

Answer 9

the latter