I think most people believe because they have never done the research. Most Christians I know simply believe because they are told to from a young age. Most have leared everything they know from the Bible or Church. If they actually did the reaserch and looked into the science and the evidence that is all around they would see the Bible is false. Andromeda is a galaxy 2.5 million light years away. (That number is universally accepted and proven with an error rate of +or - 3%.) If the earth is only 6000 years old as the bible suggests we would only be able to see stars and other objects that were closer than 6000 light years from Earth. This alone proves the Bible wrong. I know people will try to dispute this fact with irasional statements with no merrit, but its proven. The earth is billions of years old.
2007-01-09 05:24:40 · 15 answers · asked by advgman52 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't wanna to go into my entire explanation about why, even though I am a christian, I do not believe the earth is only 6,000 years old cuz I just did it on another question. Scroll through and see if you can find it.
The bullet point: When the bible says "on the first day".... etc. ... it is referring to a time period of undetermined length. Talk to your grandfather or some older person. The next time they use the phrase "in my day" ask them what specific 24-hour-day they are talking about.
2007-01-09 05:33:41 · answer #1 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is true that the earth is approx 4 1/2 billion years old, however, if the earth had popped into existance 5 minutes ago, the light from the Andromeda Galaxy would already be here and you would still see it. The problem with the literal interpretation of Genesis is not the claim that the earth is only 6000 years old but that the entire creation is only 6000 years old. That would mean that Andromeda could not be more than 6000 light years away - which would put it inside the Milky Way which is smaller than Andromeda!
2007-01-09 05:34:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whenever someone says the Earth is 6000 years old, there is a mountain of evidence that says otherwise. Why do people ignore science? We know for a fact that there are stars out there that are tens of thousands of light years away. It has taken light from those stars that long to reach us. If that is the case, I don't see how the universe could have been created 6000 years ago.
Furthermore, why would God create a fully-formed universe? That makes absolutely no sense. If that is true, God has deceived scientists and people like me into thinking that the Bible isn't true. Why would God give us the ability to discover the universe and then, when we make new discoveries, they go against what the Bible says?
2007-01-09 05:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by Incoherent Fool 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
First of all, a question. Where in the bible does it say that the earth is 6000 years old? You state that it does or at least implies it, so prove it. Maybe before you make statements about 'doing research' you ought to.
As a theoretical physicist I find it remarkable that people like you come out with this kind of thing. Dr. Hawking, one of the greatest minds of our time and a leader in researching the universe and how it came about has always been very careful not to take sides because he knows that it is equally impossible to prove or disprove the existence of a divine being. So, why can you, who has only a tenuous grasp on the concepts know for certain? The fact is, the big bang theory was accepted by the Roman Catholic church in 1956 as being biblical, while the Russian Academy of Sciences denied the big bang because to them it implied the existence of a divine being who 'started' it all.
It goes like this, the general theory of relativity tells us the as we approach anything infinite, like the singularity that was the universe before the big bang, all physical laws break down including itself. The outcome of this is that we cannot tell anything about any state before the big bang and nothing before the big bang can have any effect on the universe afterwards. So, with the knowledge that time is interwoven into the universe as part of it, the fourth dimension of our continuum, interestingly as St. Augustine stated in the fifth century, time began at the big bang. The event that triggered it is just as likely to have been a divine being as some random event.
Further, the initial parameters that allow the development of a complex organic structure, us, in the universe are very limited, so the odds against a universe containing sentient beings is actually billions to one against, yet here we are. Atheists are now saying in fact there are hundreds of billions of universes in the multiverse in an attempt to account for the incredible chance that human beings developed. So, you have a choice, you believe in a divine being or hundreds of billions of universes sharing??? our time space continuum, a shifted time space continuum as a reason for your existence.
And besides, if you take into account Heisenberg's
uncertainity principle and Godel's incompleteness theorem we cannot be certain of anything, so how can you be so sure?
2007-01-09 05:53:06 · answer #4 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read "Genesis and the Big Bang" by Dr. Gerald Schroeder. Dr. Schroeder shows, using modern physics, how galaxies can be visible from 2 billion light years and still have a 6000 year old earth and the two facts not be in conflict. It's called: Relativity.
2007-01-09 05:41:07 · answer #5 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a classic straw-man argument.
Only the literal interpretation of the bible is discredited.
I am an atheist. I don't believe the bible is true, for the most part. Still, it irritates the living hell out of me when somebody from my side of the aisle uses a seriously flawed argument.
More people believe in the metaphorical interpretation of the bible than the literal. Moreover, metaphorical teaching principles predominated in early times, back when much of the bible was written.
The idiots, nowadays, who decide that the bible has to be literal are acting so because they are terrified of not having things clear and spelled out for them.
2007-01-09 05:41:05 · answer #6 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That fact does not disprove the Bible completely. It only reinstates the fallacies of man correctly translating the word of God. Just because the Bible was written by man during a time of ignorance does not mean that there is no God. There are many things that even science can't figure out and yet they occur daily.
2007-01-09 05:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by still_happy2006 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Umm, it says in Genesis God created the Heavens and the Earth. He didn't create baby planets and stars. He created a fully adult universe that has the appearance of age. Hence Adam wasn't a baby. I have done much research into Christianity scientifically and philosophically. Light years= distance not age.
email me if ya wanna discuss scientific evidence for Christianity.
2007-01-09 05:33:12 · answer #8 · answered by Droppinshock 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-28 13:00:29 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You fail to comprehend Biblical logic (which of course is different from real logic): God can place those light rays so that objects appear to have existed longer than they actually have. It's God's version of the passenger side mirror, objects are closer than they appear. In the religious world, such things exist to test faith. Same thing with dinosaur bones, or radiometric dating, it's all a test of faith. Anything is possible with God, or so they say.
2007-01-09 05:35:28 · answer #10 · answered by Psyleet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋