Christians: Do you honestly believe every single geologist is wrong and as a part of some conspiracy?

Question

Any reputable geologist will tell you that the earth is beyond 6,000 or 10,000 years. The earth is actually about 4.5 billion years old. Do you honestly think that these THOUSANDS of men and women who study geology for 4 to 10 years of their life (bachelors, masters, doctorate) are all wrong, lying, and a part of some conspiracy against you? Or worse yet, do you believe they are too stupid to notice their own flaws? What does a geologist have to gain over lying? It seems a lot better NOT to lie because you'd win a Nobel Prize with its money reward. It just baffles me to think that you believe an entire field of science is wrong. Finally, what are YOUR qualifications to be able to make this claim? high school degree? college degree (in what field)?

Jimmy, great answer. That is like saying next week we will find out that actually the sun revolves around the earth. Technology is much different than before.

Answer 1

It's those damned liberals planting dino-sin bones in the deserts.

But seriously, an intelligent design group compiled a list of scientists who accepted the Bible as fact over scientific data.

The NCSE (National Center for Scientific Education) compiled a list of scientists named Steven (Stephen, Stephanie, etc) whom rejected the Biblical view of creation.

The Steve list was larger.


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Mara_Bear: If you believe the rules are good, I hope to God that you obey every single word of your parents...otherwise it's a public stoning and I have some rather hefty stones saved up.

Answer 2

Yes. People who say no believe that they alone understand the meanings of all the words. No two Christian churches in America can agree on everything. Some Christians believe that Jonah was actually in the belly of a whale for 3 days. Others believe it is a parable. Some Christians Believe the literal number of Jews (around 2 million) is accurate in the Exodus story. Others believe the story but are not sold on the numbers. Some believe in the 40 days and 40 nights as being literal in regard to the flood and Jesus' fasting. Others take it to be more of a figure of speech meaning several days.

Answer 3

I would not say every geologist. The first geologist I met understood the evidence clearly shows there was a world wide flood, (which mainstream geologists mistakenly refer to as the ice age). On the age of the earth there is an interesting study which is a compilation of work done by various geologists, called "Let the Ocean Speak" by Harold Camping, he shows how there has been analyzed mineral deposits from rivers in oceans and how the rates of deposits can give us some indications of age in some cases.

Sedimentary layers encasing prehistoric skeletons were not formed from falling dust.

Answer 4

This is such a stypidid question. Nowhere in the bible does it say how old the earth is. One of my Dads best mates was on huge salaries but cut them to become a church vicor.

What the bible does say is that it was done in a certain order. If you take it logicly and seriously its not just some stupid nonsense which is what people think for no reason.

Also the hebrew bible doesn't use the word day, but a word that means a period of time which has been translated to day in some bibles.

Answer 5

The Bible doesn't say that the earth is young. It leaves it open to discussion. The text in Genesis 1:2 can actually read "Now the earth BECAME formless and empty ..." in the original Hebrew. This leaves open the door for any time period geologist think best.

The Bible is not specific. So any Christian who is dogmatic about the age of the earth is basing their doctrine on TRADITION, not the Bible.

However - the premise of your question that "any reputable geologist" will believe in the "Old Earth" model is plain wrong. A minority of geologists firmly believe that the data points the other way. I have read their explanations and I think they are right.

Answer 6

You do have a good point in that it is scintific that the earth is older than 10000 years but God has always been and will forever be think of it like eternity. Eternity is like making a bird start on the west cost and pick up one mouthfull of sand and flying all the way across the USA to the east cost back and forth one mouthfull untill all of the sand that was formally on the west cost fills the east cost, and that is just one seccond of eternity. God has been here for ever and ever so he could have created the earth on his time scale and not really in 7 days, which he could totally do.

Answer 7

There are other thousands of scientists who know that the world was created by God and that it is no where near millions much less billions of years old.

Science, to be science, must deal with facts that can be proven and not just "believing" something is true. IN SCIENCE there is no proven way to date anything beyond 20 THOUSAND years. This is a fact!

Any "dating" beyond that is speculation and theory without proof. Read their papers and books. They are full of "We believe, think, it's possible, it could be, it might, most likely....." But carbon dating is not feasible beyond 20,000 years.

So, it not the "entire field of science" that believes in an old age earth.

I have two degrees and they include studies in physiology and geology.

Answer 8

It's their interpretations of the evidence I disagree with. They assume uniformitarianism, that the geologic processes occurring today have occurred at the same rate ever since their inception. This assumption has no proof, since no one was there for these billions of years.

However, I have the Bible, inspired by God (who's been here before time began), and it records a global flood which would have by its nature, catastrophically altered the Earth's surface, buried and helped create many fossils. I assume the Bible is true, which ultimately I can't prove, but the secular geologists can't prove their assumption either, that of uniformitarianism.

Ultimately, it's about which axiom is true, either uniformitarianism is correct, and the Bible is wrong, or the Bible is correct, the Flood did happen, and the Earth is only a few thousand years old. The reason I believe the Bible is bc no one can refute the resurrection, so Jesus was who He said He was, which means the Bible is God's Word, and therefore is true when speaking about creation.

Answer 9

I honestly don't know exactly how old the earth is, and I don't think that any man on this earth knows exactly either, because no human being was here during that time. Therefore, I choose to believe the account given by He who not only was here but created it himself.

Also, I don't care if millions of men and women with phd's said that they knew the actual age of the earth. THEY WERE NOT HERE! When the methods that they use to figure out the earth's age become infallible let me know.

Answer 10

No.
I don't think a day to God is the same as our 24 hour day, and I think He wrote the laws of nature and uses them as His tools.

College Degree (sorry - advertising communications, not very related, but I had to do my general science reqs too).