I'll be looking for justifications in your answer.
2007-01-07 12:47:35 · 16 answers · asked by [ΦΘΚ] PIяATE 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I do. If you want some proof, just take an astronomy course at your local college.
to ted.nardo: Just because you think that science "can't give any positive evidence to prove this date isn't right" doesn't mean that it can't. More than likely you just are not willing to listen to the evidence or open your mind.
2007-01-07 12:50:20 · answer #1 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't have to 'believe' it, for there is verifiable evidence that supports that fact. I can test it out on my own with the right equations.
One easy one is that we can see planets from billions of light-years away. Since light can only travel so fast, they must have been emitting that light for at least several billion years for it to reach us in time.
Or do you think that God created the Universe, created fossils in the Earth, and then made light suddenly move a lot faster until it looked like the Universe was this old?
However, since you asked this in the Religion & Spirituality section, it's clear you don't want actual scientific answers but to start a name-calling propaganda war. And religion has been rather successful with their anti-intellectual crusades for thousands of years.
2007-01-07 20:50:50 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say. Time compresses at high speeds, so you have to ask RELATIVE to what. Complete stand still or travelling at the speed of our Sun whatever that is. Not sure if anyone has ever attempted to determine what speed our sun travels at.
Remember if you are 18 and your 36 year old mother makes a round trip to Alpha Centuri at just under half the speed of light when she returns you are 38 and she is 37.
Now, how old is the univers.
2007-01-07 21:03:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I do believe it possibly is. I do not have direct evidence for billions. But I do have evidence for millions of years.
When you look at the stars, they are lets say 3 million light years away. (they are at different distances) That means the light that is hitting your retina left that star (at the speed of light) 3 million years ago. Meaning that light had to exsist 3 million years ago.
Also the reverse polarization of the oceanic floor in ribbions spreading from the great trench in the middle of the atlantic ocean is proof that our earth is millions of years old.
2007-01-07 20:52:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The evidence seems to support that notion - the expansion rate of the universe can be reversed and the age extrapolated.
2007-01-07 20:51:20 · answer #5 · answered by Random Precision 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes it most certainly is. even though the bible says other wise.
if you don;t believe me go look in the grand canyon. a river made that over thousands of years, more that six thousand. read up on it. google is veyr resourceful
2007-01-07 20:55:35 · answer #6 · answered by unknown 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do believe maybe our earth is billions and billion years old or a trillion!pls.refer to life science if you want a justfication
2007-01-07 20:55:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. and if you want justification i reccomend you request some from the whole of science.
2007-01-07 20:49:59 · answer #8 · answered by johnny_zondo 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Of course it's not. It was all created last Thursday to look like it was that old.
2007-01-07 20:52:15 · answer #9 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Possibly. Who really knows how old this place is?
2007-01-07 20:49:54 · answer #10 · answered by Myaloo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋