2006-12-05 11:08:58 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry, planet--
2006-12-05 11:10:20 · update #1
I had to look at the answers to this question like a motorist feels compelled to look at an accident!
ROTFLMAO!
I heard there were people who would actually say 6000 years, but I didn't believe it! Thanks for the great laugh my troll friend!
2006-12-05 11:20:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For those of faith the earth and people were created 6000 years ago, give or take . However one might wish that those of faith would stop trying to cram their version of creation down the throats of those of us who have more than a few questions about the true age of the planet Earth and Humanity, which does not mean we are a bunch of nonbelievers who will roast in hell. By the way, where in the Bible does it say that Eve ate an Apple?
2006-12-05 11:29:15 · answer #2 · answered by hironymus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being one has been here through 8400,000 different species of life and they keep coming back even in the human form at least way beyond the above number billions of years. Read the Hidden History of the Human Race By Michael A. Cremo. Shows that man was way more intelligent in every way millions of years ago through heaps of archaeological findings.
2006-12-05 11:14:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Still learning...but I know for sure that 6-7000 years is incorrect. HInduism was born around this time. Emperors were already wandering the globe in conquest at this time. The INdians had already begun their voyage to N.America.
Faith is one thing, acceptance of scientific fact is another. Failure to see the truth leaves us blind to lies.
Peace.
2006-12-05 11:18:42 · answer #4 · answered by James S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unknown. We have more than one source of information and a few potholes in the road. Such as "What is a day. week or a year. to God?"
Scientifically, the earth has been given an age using dating by the 'half life' method . But. Is it accurate? We cannot know beyond what we have as established references. Is there an unknown curve on the scale? We won't see it in such a short time, but it could be drastic in the long view. Such as our atomic clocks. They may be spot-on accurate, but how will they be in 100,000 years?
But, hey, I just call em as I see em. Don't shoot the guy you questioned.
2006-12-05 11:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by TCFKAYM 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Thinking man goes back to the Neanderthal man that's about hundred thousand years or so, we know man crossed continents during the ice age, so I would say he has been around for a lot longer than religion ever has, and archaeology has proven that.
2006-12-05 11:17:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe about 6100 years according to the genealogies given in Genesis. The oldest known artifact on earth so far is about 5500 years old. We must remember that all older dates, like those assigned to fossils and rocks, that measure millions or billions of years, are all speculation based on the assumed age of the geologic strata. I did say that right: 'a "speculation" based on an "assumption" .'
2006-12-05 11:18:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Prehistorical:
Cro-Magnon is a now-outmoded word meaning early Homo, circa 35,000 to 10,000 years before the present.
Neanderthals were a type of early hominid that lived on the planet earth between about 100,000 to 30,000 years ago.
Omo Kibish (Ethiopia) is an ancient rock formation in Ethiopia where excavations by Richard Leakey and others have recovered Homo sapiens remains as old as 125,000 years before the present.
Historical:
According to Genesis Adam was created about 6,000 years before our time.
Adam was created special and by himself. He was given God's spirit and was meant to live indefinitely in his special environment, the garden of Eden, where he had access to the tree of life. (Gen. 2:7-9, 16&17)
That’s why it was fatal for him to eat from the “tree of knowledge of good and evil”. Gen. 2:17.
Eve was an afterthought so Adam would not be all by himself. Gen. 2:21,22
Meant to live indefinitely Adam and Eve did NOT NEED to procreate! They had no sense or ambition of sexuality. Gen. 2:25. They were not ashamed – innocent.
God gave them the power of choice, to obey his instructions or not.
After eating the forbidden fruit – also known as the “original sin” - they were sexually “activated” (Gen. 3:7-11 & 16) (they were ashamed!) and God had to change His plans for them. So Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden in order to KEEP THEM AWAY from the “tree of life” which could have sustained their life (and that of now possible offsprings) indefinitely - Gen. 3:22-24.
You take your pick.
They were now condemned to live their life in the outside world and procreate like the “creatures” (Neanderthals & Co.) created before them. (Gen. 3:16) They now also were destined to die like them.
2006-12-05 13:50:11 · answer #8 · answered by fresch2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think humans have existed for about 3 million years
2006-12-05 11:11:01 · answer #9 · answered by it's me 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Oh, boy, this should be good...
Can't wait to see all the "6 to 7 thousand years" answers -- watch, not one of them will provide one shred of evidence for that position, because they can't. There is none. And even those wacky numbers were derived by a guy (Bishop Usher) who died around 150 years ago, and who knew nothing of any kind about science.
I have news for you people: there are human-made artifacts in my back yard that are older than your entire time-line of history. You're WRONG.
2006-12-05 11:12:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋