Is the Earth 4.5 billion years old, or 6 thousand years old?

Answer 1

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I would lean toward a young earth view, having 4 degrees in engineering I have opened more than a few textbooks in my day and still am

A number of interesting texts would include the RATE PROJECT. There is a study done the last 8 years by RATE project (Radioisotopes and the age of the earth) and you can find material on it at
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2003/0821rate.asp

some surprising things about C14 roughly the same from the top of the geological column to the bottom even in diamonds classified as Cambrian... this weaghs in the direction of a young earth

also some interesting things about helium in zircons a by product of Uranium decay not moving very far for claimed old ages... Zircons tend have Uranium , Uranium has 8 helium nuclei given off as it decays and the helium has not moved far in all of history... 40% is still in the zircon... giving it an apparently young age as well

Answer 2

the planet is 4.5 billion years old this earth age is 6 of 7 thousand years old. If you don't understand this put it on the shelf because for a while, maybe some day you will learn what the bible teaches about the origin of the earth and mankind. It is very sad most people don't know these facts according to the bible and yes this includes Christians.

Answer 3

I suppose it gets down to how much faith you have in carbon datin and evolution and God to what the answer would be. But I for one blieve the earth is relatively young. How young I do not know. But I do not believe that it is bilions of years old. Nor do I believe we desecend from apes. Man walked the earth at the same time as dinosaurs, even the bible talks about there being lands with giants. An even if we look at the folklore of indigenous tribes through out the world we can see this. There are even cave drawings of dinosaours; how did these people know of such creatures.

No the earth is young and was created by God. As was the rest of the universe.

Its age? Well really it is irrelevant to our salvation.

Answer 4

Since i am a christian i bet people think that i think the world is 6 thousand yrs old. Well in the Bible and the studies shown today, dinosaurs lived. (for a pretty long time). billions of yrs ago in fact. Although i have heard that this is the 2nd earth. Meaning, that there was once an old earth that had the dinosaurs, and we live on the earth that have no dinosaurs, now i don't believe that because well... believe it or not, crocodiles were dinosaurs (bigger back then). Now they are just considered dangerous reptiles.

Answer 5

You have 2 options. Either you believe all the scientists with higher education (Ph.D's) and the availability to replicate the findings yourself that the earth is 4.5 billion years, or you believe a bunch of smelly old men a few thousand years back and their church going sheep.

Answer 6

You actually believe the Earth is 6,000 years old? You do realise how ignorant that makes you sound. Your questions are like a flat-Earth believer asking “if the world is round, why don't people fall off the bottom?” I mean, did they not teach biology at your school? Ask this in the biology section, or do some simple biology research. Humans (Homo Sapiens) originated in Africa, where they reached anatomical modernity about 200,000 years ago and began to exhibit full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago.

Answer 7

The earth is around 4.5 billion years old. As far as the 6,000 year old theory, that is based on the literal interpretation of a day in the bible (especially in Genesis) being twenty-four hours, which I don't think is the case. It says somewhere that to God a thousand years is but a day, and a day is a thousand years. So, I believe that one of God's "days" in the creation of the earth could be over a million years, but who knows for sure but God? It's just that humans haven't been around very long as opposed to the earth itself.

Answer 8

I think it is irrellevant, unless this is becoming a point in which you are believing the Bible to be fallable.

People get the 6k figure from 2 Peter 3:8 where he says: But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

I believe Peter is saying time is nothing to God. He sees them both the same.

James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in his day as a churchman and as a scholar. Of his many works, his treatise on chronology has proved the most durable. Based on an intricate correlation of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories and Holy writ, it was incorporated into an authorized version of the Bible printed in 1701, and thus came to be regarded with almost as much unquestioning reverence as the Bible itself. Having established the first day of creation as Sunday 23 October 4004 BC, by the arguments set forth in the passage below, Ussher calculated the dates of other biblical events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 2348 BC `on a Wednesday'.

I was taught that the word day in the creation account stood for a time reference, not a 24hr day. But, remember God created things in full form. If one were to come to Earth and see Adam after God made him they would think he was in his 20's 30's etc and all of the trees 100's of years old. So, how useful is that carbon dating? If Evo's are reading I hope you realize how silly you are saying we came from apes when they are still around. I have heard those theories and they take more faith than believing in one God.

Finally, my God is big and it does not belittle Him one bit if he decided to make me out of an ape over billions of years. I have not heard of anyone else doing better. Creating the world over 6 days sounds awesome, but only in a one up match.

Answer 9

It seems likely that the world is in fact several billion years old! The account of creation would seem to indicate that the Lord renewed the earth just before the creation of man as when we read the account of creation in Genesis we read".....and the earth was without form; and void" Note here the word "was" to the best of my knowledge this word actually reads "became" in the Greek so it suggests to me that the earth was at one time as we know it today. Just what happened to turn it into a shapeless mass (without form) and a dead planet (void) is not known but we will have the opportunity to ask the Lord when we see him face to face

Answer 10

The Bible NEVER says the Earth is 6,000 years old. The logic arriving at that conclusion from the Bible has holes large enough to drive a trailer rig through. (For starters, it assumes there were no periods of time that passed in the OT where nothing happened.)

The 4.5 billion year old age is more reliable, since there are many different measures that give values around this ballpark. That redundancy scheme helps lend merit to this value.