How Old Is Planet Earth ?

Question

Some say that the earth is only between 5-7 thousand years old and some say millions . If it is only a few thousand years , how then do you explain the dinosaurs ? We have come across fossils of the dinosaurs but there no mention of it in the bible or in any other major religion

Answer 1

I believe it is about 6,000 years old, based on a plain sense reading of the Scriptures alone. The Bible also explains dinosaurs very well. Dinosaurs are land animals. Land animals were created on Day 6, thus dinosaurs were created on the same day as Man, and Man walked with dinosaurs originally. The dinosaurs, like all the others, were vegetarian in their diet. There was no death before the fall, and all ate plants and fruits. The sin of Adam changed many things, and perhaps carnivory began after the fall. Two of each kind of dinosaur went up the Ark (the rest died in the flood waters), they left the Ark, and many went extinct like any other animal that has gone extinct. We have stories and legends of men dueling and killing monsters or dragons which are most likely based on the encounters with surviving dinosaurs. You won’t find the word “dinosaur” in our Bibles because it was a word invented in 1842, after the Bible was translated into English. Instead we have words like Behemoth and Leviathan which are descrined in detail in Job. And when dinosaur bones are being dug up, there are no tell tale labels about how old they are. In fact, scientists have found red blood cells and muscle tissue when they cut opened the T-Rex fossils. The implication of this finding is that the fossils aren’t millions of years old.

Answer 2

Actually if you follow the Geneology of the Bible starting with Adam and follow his ancestors down to the birth of Christ then there is a legitimate way of knowing how many years transpired since the creation of the world (which was completed right before God placed Adam on it), and we already know that 2006 years have passed since His birth. The Bible widely mentions how old the OT prophets lived to and how old they were when they begat there children and so forth. I beleive the world was created six thousand years ago, as Biblical scholars have pin pointed. God took matter that was already in existence in space and of that matter he created the world. Perhaps that could explain the dinosaur theory, that dinosaurs once did exist on our Earthly matter before it was organized by God and formed to create planet Earth. It's not fact, but it's something to think about.

Answer 3

I believe the physical Earth is billions of years old. I also believe that what the Bible is saying is not the physical time but a spiritual time. God created Heaven and Earth over the course of six days. And since, a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day to God, it is telling us that God gave man as we know ourselves to be today six days (six thousand years) to get our spiritual relationship right with Him before he rests on the day Jesus returns to reign for a thousand years, the seventh day. If my interpretation is correct, the seventh day is just around the bend. If I'm wrong, what am I out? Nothing for living a life trying to do good for my fellow man. If I'm right, then it means eternity with my Creator. The Bible is full of historical facts, it also contains lots of symbolism. And this is my belief, I force my beliefs on no one, but don't mind sharing when asked.

Answer 4

Sunday 23 October 4004 BC, at 9:00 am middle eastern standard time.That would make it just over 6,010 years old. here is an article;
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ussher.htm
here is a picture;
http://www.arm.ac.uk/history/ussher.html

here is a comedian, the clip plays after the ad;

http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1296&aid=

the answer that says there are human and Dinosaur tracks together is barking out of his anus;
Both theropods and ornithopods habitually walked in a digitigrade (toe-walking) manner. Until recently it was assumed that they always did so. However, my research in the Paluxy Riverbed of Texas during the early 1980's (and later in collaboration with Ron Hastings), showed that some bipedal dinosaurs at least occasionally walked in a plantigrade or plantigrade- like manner, impressing their soles and heels as they walked--thus making elongate tracks. Why they sometimes did this is uncertain. One idea relates to a lowered or 'crouching' body position--perhaps during a foraging or stalking behavior--which would force the metatarsus into a more horizontal position. Incidentally, when the digit impressions of metatarsal tracks are subdued by erosion, mud collapse, or a combination of factors, they often resemble giant human tracks, for which they were mistaken by many locals and strict creationists. The latter often cited such tracks (along with erosional markings and some loose carvings also promoted as "man tracks") in attempts to demonstrate dinosaur and human cohabitation, and thus refute evolution. However, most "man track" advocates backpedaled from their claims after detailed explanations of the metatarsal tracks and related phenomena were published. (For further discussion on this topic see "Elongate Dinosaur Tracks" (Kuban, 1989).

go here for more of the article;
http://paleo.cc/paluxy/ovrdino.htm

Answer 5

it is possible that dinosaurs could have lived right along side man. noah's arks dimensions are big enough that it could have carried dinosaurs or they could have died during the great flood. leviathan is a creature mentioned in the bible, some believe could possibly be a dinosaur. the earth is probably about 10,000 years old. the bible doesn't mention every animal that was created nor every person.

Answer 6

Damn! these answers really are amusing! They actually beleive the earth is a few thousand years old! hmmm!

I think I saw an episode of ren & stimpy which had more brainpower than this!

Im going to get some popcorn & soda.. this is entertaining!

Answer 7

Bible calls dinosaurs dragons.
see lots of dragon stories in almost every culture?

there are in Texas dinosaur tracks with embedded human tracks. People say this is all wrong, but dinosaur tracks embedded in dinosaur tracks lead to great stories of huntin carnivores.

You will never get 100% agreement, but my opinion is 6000 years. I am a scientist, and a Christian, so this question comes up to me regularlly

Answer 8

i might want to assert round 30,000 years previous. i do not trust that is 1000's of thousands or billions like scientists say. i imagine even as the earth replaced into made, ingredient were happening very straight away and in view that the earth cooled it began slowing down. The earth remains transferring causing climate kinds, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and the such. yet decrease than the previous.

Answer 9

Creationist belive that it is 5-7 thousand years old, but the truth is that it is really 4.5 - 4.6 billion years old.

Answer 10

Oh ya, the Bible mentions it:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/2.asp
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/1866.asp
http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-ark1b.html