Is it really possible to speculate that the earth was formed 4 billions year ago?

Question

To me that is the most ridiculous assumption for anyone to make. That is a long time to even phathom what took place. COme on, 4 BILLION!!!! They don't know anything

Answer 1

It is really possible to speculate anything, you moron. That is what speculation means!

but based on presumptions and multiple observations, it is possible to have some reasonable speculations on how long things might have taken, how long ago something formed, etc.

Answer 2

I don't think it's impossible simply for the fact that it's more than our minds can fathom. This doesn't seem to be a question though, it seems that you have your mind made up and therefore will probably pick someone who agrees with the statement you made following the question. I'm sorry saying that, but I've seen this happen like 4 BILLION times now, pun intended. It's not really a question that has a correct answer. It's a stated opinion where the asker is looking for an answer which best re-articulates what the he/she has already stated.

Don't think I'm agreeing or disagreeing with you. I don't assume to know exactly how long the earth has been around, but I don't think it's possible to assert that it hasn't been around for four billion years or longer than it is to assert that it has. I doubt very much that they can give an exact figure like that or even come close since it's been well established that carbon dating is fairly unreliable past a few thousand years. However, there's nothing to make me think that perhaps the earth hasn't been around even longer than they estimate, although perhaps not exactly as it is today.

Answer 3

The rock at the bottom of the Grand Canyon is called Vishnu Schist. It is estimated to be 2 billion years old.

Those nice scientists that made it possible for you to play on the internet know a little something about hyrdogen fusion. They also know how to determine the mass of our sun, and can calculate through atomic physics how much hydrogen has burned in our sun and how much is still left. The sun is thus estimated to be 5 billion years old, and it has about another 5 billion years of hydrogen left to fuse into helium.

If scientists didn't understand the nuclear fusion processes going on in the sun, they wouldn't have been able to invent the Hydrogen Bomb, like the one that was detonated at Bikini Atoll. It is a well-documented piece of history, there are movies and pictures of the event. So, I submit to you that scientists understand nuclear physics quite well.

Planetary formation was a result of our sun's planetary nebula condensing in spots, and it is estimated that planetary formation took "only" several hundreds of millions of years. A billion years after the sun formed would not be an unreasonable estimate for the earth and the solar system to have been established. Which makes the earth about 4 billion years old, given the age of the sun is about 5 billion years.

With the aid of the Hubble telescope, and others, we can now study planetary nebulae (new suns and their protoplanetary disks) outside our solar system. New star systems now coming into view in the Orion nebula harbor tens of thousands of new stars, many with planetary systems. A star in the constellation Andromeda is known to have 3 planets circling it. Even if we can't go back in time to see our own solar system form, we can see it happening elsewhere in our galaxy, and by the estimated age of the host stars can get an idea of the age of the new solar systems as well.

You should give scientists a little credit. After all, aren't you amazed that a color TV works? Do you realize a computer processor wouldn't work without quantum theory? There is so much knowledge out there. Why think something is absurd without knowing why the claim is made in the first place?

Answer 4

You can speculate all you like, but to scientists, it's more than speculation. Scientists look for things that were once crystals of radioactive materials, and see how much radioactivity is left in them. That gives them some idea how long the thing has been "decaying."

They also date meteorites, also by radioactive decay. All of this evidence points to our solar system coming together some time between 4- and 5-billion years ago.

Answer 5

how long would it take you to count to 4 billion?

rather than counting to 4 billion could you count to 1 billion and then figure it will take 4 times as long to count to 4 billion?

Extrapolating and estimating are perfectly reasonable scientific procedures - not just speculation.

There are certainly far more ridiculous assumptions people can make. For those check out the religion questions.

Answer 6

Evolution is unquestionably real. only check out a gorilla and an orang-utan, then look me in the eyes and in case you may no longer see an obvious relatives resemblance i do no longer understand your ideas-set. despite if, much less experientially, the final common common Ancestor, which develop into no longer the 1st organism, lived aeons in the past. The sunlight runs on nuclear power and could proceed for millards of years yet. For me, needless to say, the answer to the meaning of existence is Christ, yet it somewhat is a relationship and an attachment like a number of different. Non-non secular human beings can specially circumstances discover existentialism, Stoicism or another philosophy effectual. only examine up on them. we are actually not the only interest on the city. I additionally advise you inspect extra liberal approaches to our faith than the single of which you're curiously attentive to appropriate now, as a results of fact this is no longer so ordinary as you think of.

Answer 7

They know by carbon dating rocks found in Australia. And there is complete proof that the earth 4.6 billion years old. Carbon dating, is proven very accurate. You must understand we don't when the universe started, so a "billion" may be a really small number to how old space is. I personally believe it, and the evidence and the proof is over whemling.

Answer 8

It really depends on the working nature of the individuals brain. I think of the vast amounts of time since the solar system formed out of a solar nebula (4.7 Ga, or 4700 million years ago), or the time that has elapsed since the formation of the universe (15 Ga), and I am overpowered with the immensity. I really brings home the notion of my insignificance. Although I am not religious, my spirituality rejoices at the superiority of the Creator and the beauty of the Creation, which I can admire thanks to science.

Answer 9

No, I think the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the earth last Tuesday. We only remember stuff before that because the FSM wanted to keep it interesting and implanted memories in our brains.

Answer 10

Hi. You either start with a scientific assumption and build from there (radioactive decay, sediment rates, fossils, etc.) or you interpret the Scriptures and derive 5,700 years. You pays your money and...