The geologic and fossil records prove that life existed millions of years prior (Cretaceous and Jurassic), and that pre-humans existed at least 3.5 million years prior.
2006-09-20 11:03:31 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Christians have a mind set with a certain set of beliefs, and when evidence contradicts those beliefs, they discredit the evidence or disregard it.
They usually give in after a few hundred years - (for example, Galileo and the earth revolving around the sun).
2006-09-20 11:07:16 · answer #1 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Young Earth Creationists are a great minority among Christians.
However, those who believe the world is 6000 get the notion from genealogies in the Bible and estimating when Adam and Eve existed. This was first introduced by James Ussher and Irish Archbishop in the early 1600s. Thus, YECs do not deal with science in finding this date.
They interpret the fossil record differently. I think they deny the reliability of carbon dating and the attribute fossils to a world wide flood.
2006-09-20 18:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by BABY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually the Bible never states nor implies that everything was created 6000 years ago. Only that Adam was created about 6000 years ago.
Interestingly enough, when we look at geological findings, written records, and even bones, these all point to humans existing for about 6000 years. Now, I'm ONLY talking about humans as we know them today.
If you want to include humanoids, then yes they are much much older. How much, nobody really knows. We have methods that can give us ideas (ie carbon dating) but they are not too accurate and we still have to "give" them an interpretaion. So dated artifacts may actually be even older than carbon dating indicates.
So yes, some christians have it wrong to believe the universe is only 6000 years old, but that's not what the Bible teaches.
The Bible never said the creation days were literally "days." They may actually be millions of years each. We just dont know. The bible gives no light on this.
Look into this...you will be amazed that all we know about humans like us is not that old (reletively speaking). But be strick in that you only look at Human (homo sapians). Not at any creatures that have not yet "evolved" into a modern human.
If you do look at these other creatures, know that yes they are very old, but are they human? well no. ( or not yet, if you believe in evolution). But know you are having to interpret that they are on their way to becoming human and this has a chance of being wrong or disproven.
2006-09-20 18:24:29 · answer #3 · answered by viajero_intergalactico 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
True Christians agree that the earth could be billions of years old as God's creative days are not like our 24 hour days, there are no prehumans, and man has been on earth only between 6,000 to 7,000 years, you can not with 100% certainty know what a creature looked like from it's skeleton, you can get a rough idea but not be completely sure. Skulls of what some say were prehuman can infact just be a primative ape, no link to man, but a separate creature that just died out in the flood. The flood mixed up soils and overturned much, God raised up mountains and created deep rifts and valleys to drain off the water from the flood and with the water that was encircling the earth no longer there excess radiation from space now penetrates our atmosphere making carbon dating a flawed way of dating ancient things as their radiation levels would differ from recent things and appear as though they had lost much of their radiation levels, and these things,fossils, being buried in layers of soil would not allow for new radiations from space to raise their levels as is the case with exposed items.
2006-09-20 18:36:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the geologic column only exists in textbooks, and the methods used for "proving" that fossils are "3.5 million years old" have been proven to be inaccurate for anything over a few thousand years. there's also the fact that our timeline doesn't change, but for every year that goes by, the humanistic earth age increases by about 4 million years. and there's also the fact that you have no facts on which to base your claims.
2006-09-20 19:11:39 · answer #5 · answered by lordaviii 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible never said the earth is 6,000 years old, man did.
The Bible clearly states that the Earth is Billions of years old. Between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, Billions of years past. The Earth "became" without form and void, after the first destruction of the world age by God, using Natural Disasters.
2006-09-20 18:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you know that the geologic record is based on assumptions?
If anything, fossils prove there was a global flood that wiped out many species at once and preserved them. You need to really understand this better before you put your faith in scientists' best guesses.
2006-09-20 18:09:45 · answer #7 · answered by created 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some people refuse to face facts. They find some truths unpleasant. There are preachers and chartlatans who concoct such nonsense as creation science (What an oxymoron!) and intelligent design, and many people know no better than to believe such malarkey. If everyone knew the Bible is nothing but naive myths, preachers would need to find honest jobs. Some people are just pathetically ignorant about science, and others want to keep them that way. Church leaders have long fought scientific advancement. Witness Galileo and Bruno. When I was age 8 or so, I saw my dinosaur books disagreed radically with Bishop Ussher's date of creation as 4004 BC. They said Earth is 4,700,000,000 years and had proof, not naive myths. Many adults will never know what I knew at age 8. My siblings don't.
2006-09-20 18:17:41 · answer #8 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Bible is the record of man. We don't know how long it had taken for God to create the earth. We don't know what a day is to God. A day for God could mean millions of years. It could mean a thousand years, we don't know. He created this earth whatever amount of time it had taken Him he probably had creatures before man. All that I know is God created the earth and all that is in it.
2006-09-20 19:07:45 · answer #9 · answered by morris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well in t Genesis right in the first couple of words it says. In the begenning god created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void. and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Now IMO that means water was covered upon the earth. So life could have been before the bible doesent say but it never said specifically that nothing existed before us just that he created the universe and the earth and sometime in between the earth was covered in water. Mabye the iceage happeend or somethin then the water i dunno im not a biblical scholar lol.
2006-09-20 18:12:48 · answer #10 · answered by SS4 Elby 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋