.......established age of the Earth (4.55 billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is about a couple of generations old.
2006-10-31 20:15:25 · 13 answers · asked by Vinni and beer 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fools of faith. I always enjoy asking devout Christians if they believe in dinosaurs. When they say yes I ask them how long ago they lived. When they say millions of years ago I ask them how that could be when the Bible says the Earth is only 6000 years old! It's funny watching them try to squirm their way outta that one.
2006-10-31 21:31:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You say the age of the Earth has been established at 4.55 billion years? This is not true. The value is based on unproveable assumptions. Factors such as the estimated half-life of radioactive isotopes which cannot be proved scientifically. The half-life of short lived isotopes is based on a statistical rate of decay. Each atom of an isotope can potentially decay over a period, but the same potential is true for all the atoms in the substance. In other words, there is nothing to say that the decay rate does not include random burst events. There is no evidence that says that the smooth decay seen in short lived isotopes can be extrapolated for longer periods. Radiometric dating also means that assumptions are made concerning the original composition of the substance analysed. Again, these are unproveable.
The date arrived at is a compromise of conflictiong geological and astrophysical data, so it's accuracy even here is questionable.
2006-10-31 21:30:25 · answer #2 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe you can make a Biblical case for an earth that's about 5 or 7 thousand years old and at the same time make a Biblical case for an earth that's about 15 billion years old. Gerald Shroeder formerly of MIT and now teaching at Jerusalem U has documented these findings in his writings.
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2006-10-31 20:19:47 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it could look complicated to have self belief in case you come back from an Evangelical or Fundamentalist historic past, yet in area of actuality that practically all of Christian bodies settle for the two an extremely previous age for the universe *and* organic and organic evolution. The Catholic Church, the Orthodox churches, the Anglican Communion, the great majority of Lutherans, the great majority of Presbyterians and Methodists, and the United Church of Christ. featuring people like the Roman pope, the jap patriarchs, the great C.S. Lewis, and Francis Collins (head of the Human Genome venture -- a Christian who accepts evolution). What meaning, in case you inspect the numbers, is that Christians who guess the earth is a few generations previous are a small minority. Such Fundamentalist believers are in maximum cases an American phenomenon. no longer even Augustine concept the start chapters of Genesis have been literal -- and that replaced into in 4 hundred advert.
2016-11-26 21:33:57 · answer #4 · answered by bacca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In reply to Jean above:
The dinosaurs were wiped out 6 billion years ago on Earth, your figures for the age of the Earth are way out...sorry!
The Dinosaurs lived fairly recently in Earths much longer history even though they lived 6 billion years ago themselves.
The dog was domesticated more than 6.000 yrs ago so you are saying the Earth was made after the domestication of the dog...please think about what you are saying here.
2006-10-31 20:36:34 · answer #5 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lat time I checked we were not relying on "tribesmen sitting in their tents". I believe we require a more valid source.
2006-10-31 20:25:02 · answer #6 · answered by earthsagirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assumptions assumptions, how do they know the earth is "billions" years old?
-Radiometric dating - all based on assumptions and which provides contradicting results
-Geological column - all based on circular reasoning
You see its all a grand hoax
Earth is approximately 6000years old!
2006-10-31 21:01:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Religious buffs have nothing better to do. Religion is an Earthly support mechanism, with very little to do with whether there's a God or not.
2006-10-31 20:23:59 · answer #8 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Its far more exciting than, spending the day on yahoo answers.
2006-10-31 21:16:41 · answer #9 · answered by waterborn69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be honest I do not care about the age of the earth I know my God is real and Jesus died for me the rest is less important
2006-10-31 20:34:15 · answer #10 · answered by Sam's 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋