Are there any Scientist who are Christians, who believe the earth is only 10,000 years old?

Question

must be at least one..

RoyF, I have that book, havent started it yet.

Last read The God Delusion..by Dawkins

Charles : I may not agree with everything you say but at least you didnt do the normal Christian fly off the handle routine. Thanks for your comments.

lil_chris : I believe any scientist who believes in the Bible can only do so if they compartmentalise logic and faith in separate boxes.

You cannot believe in both, thats not to say scientists cannot believe in God, they just can't in all good conscience be a scientist and accept the Bible as anything more than a book of fables from 2000 yrs ago..

jaycubb, yes I think your probably right

Admiralbo...: yes I think thats about right, christian Scientists who think the way you mention (ie believe god kicked it all off), are more pallatable than the creationists. However They cannot consider themselves true Christians if they doubt the word of jesus as transcribed in the bible. They would be doing what I believe most modern day christians do - and that is cherry pick the Bible for bits that they think appear relevant or moralistic in contemporary terms. This cherry picking tactic enforces the view of many non-christians who view the bible as inconsistent and fundamentally flawed.

oldknowall: yep, have to agree with that

amancalle. : good point

veritas : ermm...i dont think anyone thought that, and I think I know why..

Answer 1

Most scientists who are Christians, such as Francis Collins, the head of the Human Genome Project, accept the standard cosmological and biological facts of the universe as science shows them to exist.

This includes, but is not limited to, the origin of the universe in a cataclysmic eruption of a singularity 13.8 billion years ago, and the transmission of life from simpler to more complex forms via evolution, resulting in all life currently on Earth.

However scientists who are Christians usually describe their position as "theistic evolution." God gave it all the kick-off, even if it stands today as a self-maintaining system.

Answer 2

Only the very stupid ones! Seriously, the Bible was never intended to be a natural history text book. Also, Eternal God could have been creating and creating for literally billions, hundereds of thousands, of billions....
So, Christians who think the earth is only 10K years old limit God so much that it is a wonder he can stand them!
There is a place for science, and a place for faith. And yes, a scientist can have faith, and believe in God without taking narrow interpretations of scripture to heart.
Consider in the original languages there are two accounts of creation.
The original,
The second where the spirit of God move on FROZEN water, probably after a major calamity that wiped out all of life on earth that had flourished for who knows how long before.
P.S. I tutored geology and Astronomy, and also have studied some theology from the original languages.

Answer 3

While there are plenty of scientists who have religious beliefs, very, very few (if any) believe that the Earth is only 10,000 years old.

Atomic dating, using many different sources of radioactive material are all giving the same approximate age 4.5 billion years.

To suggest that the Earth is only 10,000 years old would be like suggesting that the distance from Land's End to John O'Groats was only 3 yards! Now, while I've never actually travelled from Land's End to John O'Groats, I'm guessing that they're probably a little bit further apart than that!

Answer 4

No one can difinitively state the age of the Earth.

When was the Earth "Born"? When it was thrown from the sun but still glowed like a hot amber? When it cooled and had a surface mantile? When the oceans appeared? When organic life began on the surface?

Pick your date. It's like abortion, when is the fetus a person. If you say immediately then the Earth could be as much as 14 billion years old. It could have been thrown from the sun just after it all began.

If you date it from organic life, it's not that old at all.

Carl Sagan says Man came along on the first hour of the last day of the first month of the Comic Calendar. So according to Dr. Sagan the Universe is 30 days old and Man is barely an hour old.

So Science say man has only been around an hour in absolute cosmic time.

How many people believe that one!

Answer 5

I'm a man of science (an engineer) and I am a Christian. One people forget who the Bible open up. The world was created... and then starts counting time. An old earth and the biblical creation story are not mutually exclusive.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen 1:2 Now the earth was [1] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Gen 1:4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day.
Gen 1:6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water."
Gen 1:7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so.

Answer 6

Funnily enough, there are loads! Religious beliefs are deeply ingrained and some scientists make little effort to reconcile obvious contradictions. I just finished reading a book called End Of Faith which had a bit of a discussion of the subject if you're interested.

Maybe I will start believing the Lemongod too. While there is only that one guy, he is a madman, but as soon as a few of us start believing the same things, we can call it a religion.

Answer 7

Geologists: Dr. Jonathan Sarfati,Dr. Walker, Drs. Don Batten, Pierre Jerlström, David Catchpoole.
Astronomy professor Dr. Danny Faulkner
Nuclear physicist Dr. Russell Humphreys

http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/feedback/negative_29July2001.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/Scriptural_geologists.asp

Answer 8

You the earth is only 10,000 years old, the fossil record which can be scientifically dated (very accurately may I add) back millions of years is just a test put here by god, as are all the contradictions in the bible, as are the various conflicting world religions. All tests.

Answer 9

Scientist can be Christians and still believe the Earth is very old as in millions of years. God only intended for humans to know so much and the bIble is symbolic and allegorical. It's a mystery in many ways.

Answer 10

Who knows how old the earth is. Zoologists and Geologists disagree by a few million years. There's probably a branch of theoretical physics that believes it hasn't come into existence yet.

The theory that it's about 6,500 years old was put forward by a Bishop Ussher. I know a few bishops, but not many of them could count up to twenty without taking their shoes and socks off first.