2006-11-08 08:32:57 · 29 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
4.6 billion years but creation speeds up as time goes along so a year 10,000 years ago could have lasted 100 years to us in present time, there are scientific theories on this phenomenon. This also explains why people lived so long, it's not that they lived longer but time was moving slower.
Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden 6000 thousand years ago.
2006-11-08 08:35:13 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
If you look at the geneologies in the Bible, it looks like the Earth is about 6000+ years old.
I think people who believe in "God days" are wimpy, faithless Christians. God would not say He created the world in seven days, if He did not do it in seven days. In fact, it even explicitly says "and there was morning, and there was night, the first day," etc.
No where does it even hint that it took any longer than 7 actual days.
So stop being a wuss and believe all of what God says, or believe none of it. You can't pick and choose what works for you.
P.S. I'm not ranting at the asker; it's a perfectly fine question. I'm ranting at only certain Christians out there...
2006-11-08 08:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by Japandra 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
6 billion?
and YES i'm a Christian.
I'm amazed about how many people think the earth is only 6,000 years old. The ancient Egyptian empire goes back further than that, not to mention some Chinese Dynasties. People are so gullible
2006-11-08 08:40:54 · answer #3 · answered by mesquitemachine 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
At the very most 13,000 years.
Try to think of any explosion that has produced order. Does a terrorist bomb create harmony? Big bangs cause chaos. How could a Big Bang produce a rose, apple trees, fish, sunsets, the seasons, hummingbirds, polar bears—thousands of birds and animals, each with its own eyes, nose, and mouth? A child can see that there is "grand design" in creation.
Try this interesting experiment: Empty your garage of every piece of metal, wood, paint, rubber and plastic. Make sure there is nothing there. Nothing. Then wait for ten years and see if a Mercedes evolves. Try it. If it doesn’t appear, leave it for 20 years. If that doesn’t work, try it for 100 years. Then try leaving it for 10,000 years. Here’s what will produce the necessary blind faith to make the evolutionary process believable: leave it for 250 million years.
"New scientific revelations about supernovas, black holes, quarks, and the big bang even suggest to some scientists that there is a ‘grand design’ in the universe." (U.S. News & World Re-port, March 31, 1997)
"The universe suddenly exploded into being...The big bang bears an uncanny resemblance to the Genesis command." Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal science writer
2006-11-08 08:48:57 · answer #4 · answered by Derek B 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
About 6100 ya.
That is from creation to the birth of Abram 1946 years. Then from now-2006 back to Abram's birth in 2166 b.c.
1946+2166+2006=6118.
Some dispute the date of Abram's birth. Some place it a little sooner. But even if you total up all the discrepancies the most that date could be off by is about 300 years. So the range could be 5800-6400 years. I think 6118 is close enough.
2006-11-08 08:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Science pretty much has it pegged at 4.54 billion years. I think that is without question the best possible guess we can make at this time.
2006-11-08 09:01:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Summon up Adam and Eve on the Ouji Board and ask them!!
2006-11-10 02:31:05 · answer #7 · answered by Queen Bee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 2 to 3 billion years
2006-11-08 08:35:59 · answer #8 · answered by Paolo B 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Good question! Do non-Christians get to answer? If so, then I think the earth is 4.6 billion years old.
2006-11-08 08:35:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
funny cause humans go back about 500,000 years and the earth is like 6 billion years
2006-11-08 08:40:36 · answer #10 · answered by Red Eye 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋