How old might earth be having plant life, fowl, whales and all animal life prepareded before humankind?

Question

Gen.1:1,2 [ The earth and all exist here, it is evident ];
Gen.1:3 [ Earth is a focus for preparation here ];
Gen.1:11,12 [ Earth is a focus for plant life, plant life a priority, needs light through shield, with seasons ];
How many years is earth a focus before man begans the world Adam to Noah, Abraham and family to Moses, to David and Solomon to Babylon captivity? To Jesus? Matt.1:1-17;
To now in 2006 after Jesus.

Father K,

I read on here age of universe or the earth or the world.
Attention should be given that earth exist when plant life came to be and there is time to this point, then time to all the other creations as earth is being prepared for man last.
I am not blessing people out.
For their confussion of age of Adam as age of the earth or age of the world as age of the earth. They bless me out. I did not write this book, earth comes first.
I am not confussed. I answer right.
The age of the earth is one thing, it is older.
The age of the world is another, it is younger.
So now I am asking, to help get it straight.
So Father k, is this right or not?

Oceansofl,
Most sources on age of earth say 4.57 and it seems a guess, but possible.
Tomoyo K,
As you I work on age of world from Adam. Age of earth is not given but some have the ability to figure it near to.
Thank you, thanks to everyone.

Answer 1

It is a general consensus that the earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old, and was originally covered with a primordial ocean. Evidence suggests that primitive bacterial life may have been present in the first billion years of earth's history. Dry land began to appear sometime in the second billion years of earth's history. Primitive flora probably began to take hold on land after it had cooled sufficiently. This may well have been during the third billion years of the history of earth. During earth's fourth billion years, flora took increasingly complex, and diverse forms, whereas fauna began to appear both on dry land, and in the ocean, again increasing in complexity, and diversity. It has been pretty much determined that modern man (Homo sapiens) appeared on earth somewhere between 500,000, and 2 million years ago. According to archaeological evidence, a rather highly advanced, and sophisticated culture was attained by pre-flood humans. It is pretty much agreed upon, that the great flood occurred somewhere between 6000, and 12,000 years ago, a precise date being difficult to pinpoint. Abraham lived about 4000 years ago. Moses was alive about 3700 years ago. David and Solomon lived around 3000 years ago. The Babylonian captivity happened about 2600 years ago. And here we are 2000 years after Jesus walked the earth, all signs indicating His return to be near.

Answer 2

Don't know what book your'e reading but the KJV, NIV, and the Message bible all say in Gen. 1 read the whole chapter and you will find out that plant life was created on the third day and all animal life created on the fifth day and Adam created on the sixth day. Earlier in Genesis it says God created light and seperated the dark and light and that was the first day. So according to the Bible I'm going to say that from plant life and human creation was two days.
If you use scientific calculations and how much the Earth gets closer to the sun every year there is no possible way for the Earth to be millions or billions or years old. That is information from people trying to prove that the Bilble is not real or the truth. Which it is and will always be the truth and light.

Answer 3

Science has proved there was life (dinosaurs) on earth LONG before the earth as we know it. The question becomes "..How many years are between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2???? God saw the earth and it was VOID - had nothing, was black, but when was it destroyed and for what? Probably was one planet belonging to the angel Lucifer who was cast out of Heaven for trying to over throw God. At that time God perhaps destroyed this globe in space until approx 2000 years ago when He redeveloped it for man as we know it today. The next question Why do we really care or want to know. There are lots of things in God's creation that we do not have answers for. Does that make us any less here??
If you have a better theology I would like to read it.

Answer 4

Let me get this straight, you're using mythology to determine the age of the planet?
Thanks for showing us a glowing example of why "intelligent design" should NEVER be taught in the classroom...

Answer 5

Accordingly..the Bible say's it's Billions of years old.

Answer 6

Everything's probably been here a long, long time. Don't worry about looking back; look forward.

Answer 7

Ummm....

Read this question twice. Head began to pound.

What???

Answer 8

COUNTING BACK TO ADAM’S CREATION

Starting From the Pivotal Date. The pivotal date for counting back to Adam’s creation is that of Cyrus’ overthrow of the Babylonian dynasty, 539 B.C.E. Cyrus issued his decree of liberation for the Jews during his first year, before the spring of 537 B.C.E. Ezra 3:1 reports that the sons of Israel were back in Jerusalem by the seventh month, Tishri, corresponding to parts of September and October. So the autumn of 537 B.C.E. is reckoned as the date of the restoration of Jehovah’s worship in Jerusalem.

This restoration of Jehovah’s worship in the autumn of 537 B.C.E. marked the end of a prophetic period. What period? It was the “seventy years” during which the Promised Land “must become a devastated place” and concerning which Jehovah also said, “In accord with the fulfilling of seventy years at Babylon I shall turn my attention to you people, and I will establish toward you my good word in bringing you back to this place.” (Jer. 25:11, 12; 29:10) Daniel, who was well acquainted with this prophecy, acted in harmony with it as the “seventy years” drew to a close. (Dan. 9:1-3) The “seventy years” that ended in the autumn of the year 537 B.C.E. must have begun, then, in the autumn of 607 B.C.E. The facts bear this out. Jeremiah chapter 52 describes the momentous events of the siege of Jerusalem, the Babylonian breakthrough, and the capture of King Zedekiah in 607 B.C.E. Then, as verse 12 states, “in the fifth month, on the tenth day,” that is, the tenth day of Ab (corresponding to parts of July and August), the Babylonians burned the temple and the city. However, this was not yet the starting point of the “seventy years.” Some vestige of Jewish sovereignty still remained in the person of Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor of the remaining Jewish settlements. “In the seventh month,” Gedaliah and some others were assassinated, so that the remaining Jews fled in fear to Egypt. Then only, from about October 1, 607 B.C.E., was the land in the complete sense “lying desolated . . . to fulfill seventy years.”—2 Ki. 25:22-26; 2 Chron. 36:20, 21.

From 607 B.C.E. to 997 B.C.E. The calculation for this period backward from the fall of Jerusalem to the time of the division of the kingdom after Solomon’s death presents many difficulties. However, a comparison of the reigns of the kings of Israel and of Judah as recorded in First and Second Kings indicates that this time period covers 390 years. Strong evidence that this is the correct figure is the prophecy of Ezekiel 4:1-13. This prophecy shows that it is pointing to the time when Jerusalem would be besieged and its inhabitants taken captive by the nations, which occurred in 607 B.C.E. So the 40 years spoken of in the case of Judah terminated with Jerusalem’s desolation. The 390 years spoken of in the case of Israel did not end when Samaria was destroyed, for that was long past when Ezekiel prophesied, and the prophecy plainly says that it is pointing to the siege and destruction of Jerusalem. Thus, “the error of the house of Israel,” too, terminated in 607 B.C.E. Counting back from this date, we see that the period of 390 years began in 997 B.C.E. In that year, Jeroboam, after the death of Solomon, broke with the house of David and “proceeded to part Israel from following Jehovah, and he caused them to sin with a great sin.”—2 Ki. 17:21.

From 997 B.C.E. to 1513 B.C.E. Since the last of Solomon’s 40 full regnal years ended in the spring of 997 B.C.E., it follows that his first regnal year must have commenced in the spring of 1037 B.C.E. (1 Ki. 11:42) The Bible record, at 1 Kings 6:1, says that Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. This means three full years and one complete month of his reign had elapsed, bringing us to April-May of 1034 B.C.E. for the start of the temple building. However, the same scripture states that this was also “the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out from the land of Egypt.” Again, 480th is an ordinal number, representing 479 complete years. Hence, 479 added to 1034 gives the date 1513 B.C.E. as the year that Israel came out of Egypt. Paragraph 19 of Study 2 explains that from the year 1513 B.C.E., Abib (Nisan) was to be reckoned as “the first of the months of the year” for Israel (Ex. 12:2) and that previously a year beginning in the autumn, with the month Tishri, had been followed. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1957, Vol. 12, page 474, comments: “The reckoning of the regnal years of the kings is based upon the year which began in the spring, and is parallel to the Babylonian method in which this prevailed.” Whenever the change of beginning the year in the autumn to beginning the year in the spring began to be applied to periods of time in the Bible, this would involve a loss or gain of six months somewhere in the counting of time.

From 1513 B.C.E. to 1943 B.C.E. At Exodus 12:40, 41, Moses records that “the dwelling of the sons of Israel, who had dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.” From the above wording, it is apparent that not all this “dwelling” was in Egypt. This time period begins with Abraham’s crossing of the Euphrates on his way to Canaan, at which time Jehovah’s covenant with Abraham went into effect. The first 215 years of this “dwelling” was in Canaan, and then an equal period was spent in Egypt, until Israel became completely independent of all Egyptian control and dependency, in 1513 B.C.E. The New World Translation footnote on Exodus 12:40 shows that the Greek Septuagint, which is based on a Hebrew text older than the Masoretic, adds, after the word “Egypt,” the words “and in the land of Canaan.” The Samaritan Pentateuch does similarly. Galatians 3:17, which also mentions the 430 years, confirms that this period started with the validating of the Abrahamic covenant, at the time that Abraham crossed the Euphrates on his way to Canaan. This was therefore in 1943 B.C.E., when Abraham was 75 years old.—Gen. 12:4.

Another line of evidence supports the above reckoning: At Acts 7:6 mention is made of the seed of Abraham as being afflicted 400 years. Since Jehovah removed the affliction by Egypt in 1513 B.C.E., the beginning of affliction must have been in 1913 B.C.E. This was five years after the birth of Isaac and corresponds to Ishmael’s “poking fun” at Isaac on the occasion of his weaning.—Gen. 15:13; 21:8, 9.

From 1943 B.C.E. to 2370 B.C.E. We have seen that Abraham was 75 years old when he entered Canaan in 1943 B.C.E. Now it is possible to date the stream of time farther back, to the days of Noah. This is done by use of the time periods supplied for us in Genesis 11:10 to 12:4. This reckoning, which gives a total of 427 years, is made as follows:

From the beginning of the
Deluge to Arpachshad’s birth 2 years

Then to the birth of Shelah 35 “

To the birth of Eber 30 “

To the birth of Peleg 34 “

To the birth of Reu 30 “

To the birth of Serug 32 “

To the birth of Nahor 30 “

To the birth of Terah 29 “

To the death of Terah, when
Abraham was 75 years old 205 “

Total 427 years

Adding 427 years to 1943 B.C.E. brings us to 2370 B.C.E. Thus the timetable of the Bible shows that the Deluge of Noah’s day began in 2370 B.C.E.

From 2370 B.C.E. to 4026 B.C.E. Going still farther back in the stream of time, we find that the Bible dates the period from the Deluge all the way to Adam’s creation. This is determined by Genesis 5:3-29 and 7:6, 11. The time count is summarized below:

From Adam’s creation to
the birth of Seth 130 years

Then to the birth of Enosh 105 “

To the birth of Kenan 90 “

To the birth of Mahalalel 70 “

To the birth of Jared 65 “

To the birth of Enoch 162 “

To the birth of Methuselah 65 “

To the birth of Lamech 187 “

To the birth of Noah 182 “

To the Deluge 600 “

Total 1,656 years

Adding 1,656 years to our previous date of 2370 B.C.E., we arrive at 4026 B.C.E. for the creation of Adam, perhaps in the fall, since it is in the fall that the year began on the most ancient calendars.