Ages of the Earth and Moon?

Question

If the ages of Earth and Moon are nearly identical why are most rocks found on the Moon so much older than Earths Rocks?

Answer 1

The first and third answers are the only ones that are scientifically sound.

Answer #2 - incorrect - erosion does not change the age of rocks.
- the reason the age of earth rocks is less than moon rocks is because the earth's surface is constantly changing thanks to plate techtonics. Subduction of crust melts it destroying the rock. Continental rock on the earth's surface is much older than seafloor rocks which is good evidence that the earth is WAY MORE THAN 6000 YEARS OLD (that's for you answer #4). The material that the earth and moon are made out of are all exactly the same age.

The earth is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old and the moon formed within a couple hundred million years of the earth's origional formation. This happened when a mars sized planetoid (called Theia) smashed into the young earth, spilling the debris into orbit around earth that would eventually condense (through the same process that formed the earth) into our moon. The impact with Theia also started the earth spinning on its axis much faster - look at Venus and Mercury, both without moons, and both have a rotation speed that makes their "day" hundreds of Earth-days long - the impact also tilted the earth's axis giving us our seasons of summer, fall, winter, and spring...

The idea that noah's flood can explain geological features and fossils is just plain absurd. I would love to take the time to explain why, but I doubt it would do any good...

Answer 2

A Young Earth? 6000 years? Man had domesticated the dog 10,000 years ago!
Just as an example, The Atlantic Ocean is widening at about same the rate as your fingernails grow, i.e a few cm per year.. (The Pacific is been "swallowed up" at about the same rate ) The rate of this growth has been scientifically proven using Global Positioning Satellites and also by laser beam measuring devices on Iceland, where the Mid-Atlantic ridge actually reaches above sea level. It is thought then, using the above calculations and given the width of the present Atlantic, that the it began to form about 65 million years ago. Imagine how wide the "Ocean" would be if the Earth was only 6000 years old, and the continents of N. America and Europe had say, split apart at about that time? about 980 feet!

Answer 3

"does not earth be a lot older?" The Earth is slightly older than 4.5 billion years. This has each and everything to do with its age and by no skill some thing to do with any collisions that ought to or gained't have exceeded off. besides, assuming the hypothesis to be maximum excellent, which isn't inevitably the case, a youthful Earth ought to've been struck with techniques from yet another youthful planet, and the end result replaced into the Moon, that may be slightly youthful. because the Moon is slightly youthful than the formation of the picture voltaic gadget...

Answer 4

Modern geologists, based on extensive and detailed scientific evidence, consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.567 billion years (4.567×109 years). This age represents a compromise between the oldest-known terrestrial minerals – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – and astronomers' and planetologists' determinations of the age of the solar system based in part on radiometric age dating of meteorite material and lunar samples.

--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth

The formation of the Moon is believed to have occurred at 4.527 ± 0.01 billion years, which would imply that it formed only 30 to 50 million years after the origin of the solar system
--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon#Origin_and_geologic_evolution

Answer 5

God created the "heavens and the earth" in the same solar week, 6 day period and rested on the seventh day. No reason to believe this was more than about 6000 years ago. The global flood in the days of Noah explains the majority of geologic layers and strata / fossils we see throughout the earth.

Answer 6

Because erosion has turned under most of earths surface rocks.

Answer 7

the eart is over 4 billion years old. the moon is exactally the same age

Answer 8

"Widely accepted scientific evidence indicates that the Earth was formed around 4.57 billion years ago and its natural satellite, the Moon, was orbiting it shortly thereafter, around 4.53 billion years ago."

This, and more, from Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

Hope this helps!