does anyone really know the answer?
2007-01-19 11:25:18 · 11 answers · asked by vicki 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Between 4.5 billion and 4.6 billion years old. (See source.)
(My favorite piece of logic is: "those scientists can't make up their mind whether the earth is 4.5 or 4.6 billion years old ... therefore we might as well just believe it is 6,000 years old.")
2007-01-19 14:18:13 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 4 1/2 billion years old.
2007-01-19 19:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
About 4.55 billion years. That's the best estimation we've come up with, based off of several different independent observations (radiometric dating, measuring lead isotopes from radioactive metals, etc.).
People can claim that the earth is only 6,000 years old, but that claim's ridiculous because it contradicts so much of what we know and continue to find about the planet.
2007-01-19 21:07:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
from the fossils and oldest rocks we have found so far on earth we have predicted its about 4.6 billion years old. But no way of knowing for sure.
2007-01-20 00:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by pbmaze 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
16 billion years
2007-01-19 22:31:31 · answer #5 · answered by nn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roughly 4.5 billion years old.
2007-01-19 19:36:01 · answer #6 · answered by kris 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
4.5 billion years
2007-01-19 20:31:13 · answer #7 · answered by Professor♫ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
4.5 billion years old
2007-01-19 20:05:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is approx. 4.6 billion years old
2007-01-19 20:54:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no fool proof scientific way to determine aging.:especially of materials. The analysis are all probabibalitic. You may as well take without proof the statement of the Bible, and leave it at that.
2007-01-19 19:38:47 · answer #10 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 6⤋