Prove to me that the world is older than 5766 years old?

Question

When God created the world it was a complete world. There were fruit on the trees-Scientifically maybe 100 years old. Adam was a grown man-Scientifically or Genetically he may have been 30 years old. So when Scientists claim that the world is millions of years old they may be correct theoretically but they are totally wrong factually. Agree?

Answer 1

The 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. Nothing above requires or allows faith or belief, it is based on hard, 100% proven scientific evidence and data. When you look at the Grand Canyon, how can you say that only took 6000 years to form?

Let me turn your question around, if Creationism was correct and science could definitively prove Creationism (and thus the existence of God), why would they not? That would be the greatest scientific discovery in the history of the world. No one would pass that up to maintain the 'status quo'. There is no conspiracy to hide creation evidence. Anyone who knows real scientists knows they are glory-mongers first. They love to prove others wrong to enhance their own standing. And if any scientist could prove Creation/God, it would've been done a long time ago.


Anything you refer to (w/ religion) can never be proven. That's why it is called FAITH. You have faith, good for you. But we deal in science, which is the elimination of faith. There has never been a sigle piece of evidence to support a higher being. Any inference to a higher being can be done by FAITH and faith alone, by definition. Complexity does not equal diety.

Answer 2

You're Right! The world was created 5766 Years ago. To say this is a religious question is putting your head in the sand and saying no one can see you. The reasoning from the Professor that God wouldn't create a world that is seemingly so deceivingly old is ridiculous. The reason God created man so we can choose between right and wrong and be rewarded for choosing the right. If God would create the world with out the slightest deception there would not be any choice in what we believe and there wouldn't be any reward for doing anything right. I feel for and understand all you scientists that are working so hard to figure out how old some stone or bone is and then some guy comes along from Yahoo! and completely disproves you!.

I saw some of my fellow answerer's claim that how can the questioner's claim the world is 5766 years old when scientists found bones from Dinosaurs. For one who said they are Dinosaur bones maybe its from the GIANTS the bible talks about and secondly there are such type of animals in Africa that look similar.

Isn't interesting that the bible has rec-ordered history back to the creation but we cannot find not one other book or written form of history dating before that. A little mind boggling. No?

Please give me the best answer! I agreed with you and completely blew away the others!

Answer 3

The world is 5766 since the creation of Adam. You are counting the seven days that God created everything else as 24 hour periods. This is most likely not the case. Those "days" could have been a million (or more) years each. We count a day and night as a day. Talk about an awesome God!!!!!!! God did not start to measure time until the fourth day!!!!!
Here it is from Genesis: "Then God said: "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the fixed times, the days and the years, ....God saw how good it was. Evening came, and morning followed--the fourth day. "

Answer 4

sorry, but to illustrate a point i must ask another question.
If we are looking at the bible as being the ultimate truth then we are all a product if incest. I apologise for being so flippant, but it is such a stupid question.
I suppose the dinosaurs died out because there was not enough room on the Ark?? Oops, you wont believe in dinosaurs either then, or fossil records or the principle of uniformitarianism?? What age do you think the universe is then? 40, 55??
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People like you should have stayed in the middle ages wher you belong.
God created man about a millisecond after man created God to give his primitive life meaning and substance. God exists in your head. I f you need a metaphysical omnipotent being to help you through the day, fine, but don't come out with christian fundimentalist shite like that. Enough. Go vote for Dubya again and all his right wing cronies who believe it is right and good to invade countries with different political and religious philosophies. Your narrow mindedness and inability to cope with reality make me feel sad for you. Human sadness not something ordained by a ficticious superbeing.
I truly am sorry, this is not a personal attack, its an attack on all those who cannot or refuse to take responsibilty for the world we have all created.

Answer 5

There are many interesting, non-heretical theories about the first chapter of Genesis. It is indisputable that God created the heavens and the earth and everything on the earth. There are questions about wether the 7 days are referring to 24 hour periods or ages, like "In the day of Moses," only even longer.

Genesis starts by saying God created the heavens and the earth, then it describes his works of creation on the earth. Some people question wether that means that means that He created the earth, and then at some point later, maybe millions of years later, after it had become "void," he created modern life on our planet, perhaps even after creating say dinosaurs in another age. Or is Genesis 1:1 just a synopsis of the rest of the chapter, a briefer telling of the 7 days?
The Hebrew word for "the" that is used in "In the beginning" is also the Hebrew word for "a," so is it possible that humanity is the culmination of a whole series of creations, not just the culmination of one?
About your seperation of "science" from "fact." God created science. That is why it works so well in general. Like most of God's creation, some aspects of it have been perverted, hence the theory of Evolution being accepted as fact. God did not create things in order to trick us and in order to make faith harder.
Ultimately, no living human on earthcan be 100% certain of what exactly God's timetable was. Remember God's question to Job:
"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand."
I wasn't there when he laid the foundation.

Answer 6

1. God created the world.
2. The world appears to be older than 6000 years.
3. There is so much evidence that the world appears to be older than 6000 years, that if the Earth were only 6000 years old, it would be deceitful.
4. The deceiver is Satan.
5. The Bible says God created the Earth.
6. If Satan had helped create the Earth or added deceitful signs to it after its creation, the Bible would say so.
7. The Bible doesn't say Satan had a hand in the creation of the world.
8. Therefore, the Earth is more than 6000 years old.

Give me the Best Answer rating for proving the Earth is more than 6000 years old, using the Bible. Thanks.

Answer 7

Can't give a proof in the sense of math or logic.

But short of that kind of logical-certainty-level proof, there is little in the world that we are more certain of than that the world is older than that.

Of course, as you say, God *could* be essentially playing a massive trick on us, leaving endless evidence that the Earth is billions of years old, even though it is not.

But there are also infinitely many other tricks that could be being played on us, the 5766-year one just being one. Why should we take seriously this hypothesis over all the other "trick" ones?

Answer is that we should not. They are all equally silly, and no reason to pick one over the other. Better to go with where the evidence actually overwhelmingly points. And I cannot overemphasize the "OVERWHELMINGLY".

Answer 8

Here's one proof. The atmosphere contains both C-12 and C-14. C-14 is radioactive and decays steadily into C-12. By measuring the ratio of C-12:C-14, scientists can determine the age of a material, since the rate of decay is constant. This technique can date living organisms up to 50,000 years old. Other similar methods can date non-organic substances to about 3.4 billion years old. It's called carbon dating, but I doubt you would understand that concept since you are clearly a very simple person. Get with the times.

Answer 9

Actually, according to the Bible, the world was not complete. According to Genesis 2, "there could be no plants because there was no man to till the soil." It this is true, then God did not create trees with fruit on them, they grew from the ground after man tended them.

Answer 10

No way.
Archaeologist just found a 3 millions years old skeleton of a girl in Ethiopia. Near where Lucy was found years ago.
There are also lots of minerals, coal, oil, and chrystals that needed millions of years to form.
Most religious books shouldn't be taken literally.
They were written to be understood by average people who lived about 2000 years ago. They didn't have the scientific background we have today.