The earth at 6000 years old?

Question

Who came to the conclusion that the earth was 6000years old and what calcander system did they use to come to this date? i.e. the gregorian, Julian, lunar? Which one?

Gary: What faulty dating methods are these? Enlighten me, this is my area of expertiese and I am intrested in why you think they are.

Answer 1

The christian church because the church did some calculations based on the bible and made that declaration. Based on the current calendar.

Ridiculous.

Answer 2

Goodguy 53, what on earth are you talking about? Carbon dating mistakes do happen, but scientists do not, as a rule , mistake a few hundred years for a few million. The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old - I say "about" because over great time-spans, it is hard to be accurate to within a few hundred million years, but the evidence is stacking up day after day. And what to the bizarre sect called creationists believe, based not on science but on a holy book? - that a creator entity brought everything we see on Earth into being spontaneoulsy 6,000 years ago, just slap in the middle of the agricultural revolution that was going on in the near east - Sumeria etc, and just before the flowering of the great cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Laughable, of course, if it weren't for the fact that the creationist trash is taught in some schools in the most powerful country on Earth. Now that's NOT funny at all.

Answer 3

Stephen M has got it right. This European Bishop took the ages of the people listed in the Bible, guessed at their ages at death, and added them all up. No wonder scientists scoff at Christians who insist the earth is only 6,000 years old! Sorry I don't know which calender system used at the time, only this Bishop was around in the first Century.

However, please don't think that when Genesis talks about 6 days of creation that each day is 24 hours. The Hebrew word for day is 'yom' and can mean 1,000 or a million - it's a word which means "a period of time". The order of creation as mentioned in Genesis can loosely be interpreted to mirror conventional scientific thought.

Answer 4

Creationists believe that God created the Earth in 6 modern days then put his feet up.

Of course God measures time EXACTLY the same way that we do.
60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours and a bit in a day. (that way we get the leap years extra day)

The arrogance of religions amazes me.
Who are they to decide what a deity considers to be a 'day'!?




Given the fact that, according to the Bible, Adam was created on the sixth day of our planet’s existence, we can determine a Biblically-based, approximate age for the earth by looking at the chronological details of the human race. This of course assumes that the Genesis account is accurate, that the six days of creation described in Genesis were literal 24-hour periods, and that there were no ambiguous chronological gaps.

The genealogies listed in Genesis chapters five and eleven provide the age at which Adam and his descendants each begot the next generation in a successive ancestral line from Adam to Abraham. By determining where Abraham fits into history chronologically and by adding up the ages provided in Genesis chapters five and eleven, it becomes apparent that the Bible teaches the earth to be about 6,000 years old, give or take a few hundred years.

What about the popular age of about 4.6 billion years accepted by most scientists today and taught in the vast majority of our academic institutions? This age is primarily derived from two dating techniques: radiometric dating and the geologic timescale. Scientists who advocate the younger age of about 6,000 years insist that radiometric dating is flawed in that it is founded upon a series of faulty assumptions while the geologic timescale is flawed in that it employs circular reasoning [see our articles on radiometric dating and the geologic timescale]. Moreover, they point to the debunking of old-earth myths, like the popular misconception that it takes long periods of time for stratification, fossilization and the formation of diamonds, coal, oil, stalactites, stalagmites, etc, to occur. Finally, young-earth advocates present positive evidence for a young age for the earth in place of the old-earth evidences which they debunk [see our article on evidences for a young earth]. Young-earth scientists acknowledge that they are in the minority today but insist that their ranks will swell over time as more and more scientists reexamine the evidence and take a closer look at the currently accepted old-earth paradigm.

Ultimately,THE AGE OF THE EARTH CANNOT BE PROVEN. Whether 6,000 years or 4.6 billion years – both viewpoints (and everything in between) rests on faith and assumptions. Those who hold to 4.6 billion years trust that methods such as radiometric dating are reliable, and that nothing has occurred in history that may have disrupted the normal decay of radio-isotopes. Those who hold to 6,000 years trust that the Bible is true, and that other factors explain the “apparent” age of the earth, such as the global flood, or God creating the universe in a state that “appears” to give it an very long age. As an example, God created Adam and Eve as fully-grown adult human beings. If a doctor were to have examined Adam and Eve on the day of their creation, the doctor would have estimated their age at 20 years (or whatever age they appeared to be) - when, in fact, Adam and Eve were less than one day old. Whatever the case, there is always good reason to trust the Word of God over the words of atheistic scientists with an evolutionary agenda.



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Answer 5

Bishop Joseph Usher. Read Annals of The World.

Answer 6

The Hebrew Religion dates back 5,800 years. We don't know much before that.

But, if we take dating systems into account, remembering that time is relative.

Dr. Carl Sagan says MAN came along in the first hour of the last day of the first Cosmic Month. And we are still in that hour.

In other words, Sagan says the universe is 30 or 31 days old and man has been around for about half an hour in time.

They believe the Universe is 14.5 billion years old.

Let's see, doing some math. Prior to the coming of MAN the Universe was 42,000 minutes old. Man was here in the last 30 minutes or less. Man has been around 1/14000th of the time span of the universe. That means man has been around 10 million years, which I don't think totally jives, but maybe we are les sin time than 30 minutes. Maybe only 3 or 4 minutes.

Now, the Bible say mas was created on the 6th day and then God rested. If God created man just before midnight then that would be. 8650 minutes and man came along in the last minutes or two. If man was born in the last minute of the 6th day, then man would be aomost 10 million years old, same as using 30 mintues for Carl Sagan's calendar.

Since the best estimations are like 1 or 2 millioni years, then if we go with 2 million that owuld make Carl Sagans 1/5th less or 6 minutes into the first hour of the last day of the first month and it would make Man's creation on God's Calendar the same span or about 12 or so seconds before Midnight on the 6th day.

There is no indication as to when Man was created. Morning, evening. It's just said immediatley after God created man he rested on the 7th day, so it is not unreasonable to say man was created in the Midnight hour or at least the job was finished then.

So using both the 6 day scale of Genesis and the 30 day scale of Cornell Comsmologist Dr. Carl Sagan we come out with similar 2 millioin years old existance and 14.5 billioin years old universe.

Remember, time is relative. You are 18 and your 36 year old mother travels to Alpha Centauri and back at about half the speed of light when she returnes home you are 38 and she is 37.

You also HAVE to remember WE DON'T KNOW how fast the SUN moves in space. We don't KNOW for sure if things are slowing (the expanding and contracting universe motif). But after the Big Bang most MASS was travelling close to or at the speed of light.

We know there are such things as Quasars which move at 150,000 miles per second.

If the SUN is slowing in space then REALTATIVSTIC time is slowing.

Just like it did for your mommy when she went to Alpha Centuri.

We also don't know how much the rate is. MAtched atomic clocks loose microseconds when they orbit the earth from stationary clocks.

We don't yet know the thresholds of realtivity and time.

But, Earth's Geological dating could be flawed by the slowing of the SUN and EARTH over 500,000,000 years of time.

NO one can say for sure how much or what the effect is.

They EARTH could be older then we think. Maybe 2 billion years old but slowing and hence there is time dialation.

This can affect all markers. We don't really know for sure yet.

The point of relatavistic thinking is that after 50 million years if you're slowing by even a few thousands miles the spacing between markers is goiong to change as the ruler changes.

As the sun slows the sun and the Earth grow in relatavistic size. It is possible for time dating to become flawed as new markers grow phsyically shorter in size with the pass of time over the longer markers that were made by the SAME SIZE changes far earlier in time when things were smaller.

A change by a mere 1/10th of an inch is measurable enough to throw things off.

Time dating by marker CAN be flawed if relatavistic thinking is applied and SOME THINK that the universe is SLOWING and will FALL BACK to the point of origin.

That, theoretically, would occure sometime in the late spring or summer of Carl Sagan's calendar.

The MASS and gravity at the CENTER of the universe is still far greater than at athe extreme edges.

Gravity takes a toll on a body in motion that does not have continual thrust.

Stars, therefore, must be treated at projectiles, like bullets fired from a gun towards the sky. Eventully they loose momentum and fall back to Earth.

We must also conclude that stars and galaxies exert gravity and have a bearing on other stars and galaxies. How much is hard to say, but if it's enough to deflect a trajectory by even .001 that is significant at high speeds and long period of time.

But that's ONLY if the EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING universe motif is valid.

Answer 7

It's based on clues in the bible, and the fact that there is a growing amount of evidence that carbon dating is very flawed. Some things with known dates of only a few hundred years old have been carbon dated as millions of years.
See this web site for more on this:
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=726

Answer 8

I believe that a biblical or religious figure came up with the idea that the earth was 6000 years old. As far as I know, scientific methods have proved it wrong. The earth is supposedly hundreds of millions years old, but I don't think that proves the Bible wrong. It just proves religious figures wrong.

Answer 9

BIBLE DOES NOT GIVE THE AGE OF EARTH AS 6000 YEARS AS EARTH EXISTED

JESUS GENEALOGY AND 2007 CALENDAR TIME

~~~~ Gen.1:1,2 All Exist. 1:3-25 Earth prepared. Space Job 38:30-32; John 17:3,5,24;
~~~~ Col.1:15-17; Rev.3:14; Jesus first creation created in image of God.
0130 Adam Gen.5:3; Gen.1:26,"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
0105 Seth Gen.5:6
0090 Enos Gen.5:9
0070 Cainan Gen.5:12
0065 Mahalaleel Gen.5:15
0162 Jared Gen.5:18
0065 Enoch Gen.5:21
0187 Methusalen Gen.5:25
0182 Lamech Gen.5:28; 1056 Noah born.
0600 age of Noah, Flood Gen.7:6; 1656 flood year at 1656 after Adam.
0000 Noah 350 years Gen.9:28,29; Shem 502 years Gen.11:10,11,
0222 Gen.11:10,11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24 is Terah at, 222 years.
0205 427 Gen.11:32 [ 205 dies ]; Gen.12:4; Abraham age 75. Matt.1:1-17;
0430 857 Exo.7,7; 12:40,41; Gal.3:16-18 [ Abraham & 430 to law ];
0040 897 Num.33:38,39 [ Deut.34:7 Aaron & Moses die ];
0000 898th after flood. Josh.5:6,10,12; 14th day of New Year.
0000 Judges 11:26; 300 & 898 after flood, is 1198. 1212 BC
0000 Acts 13:20 450 & 857 is 1307 after flood. 1103 BC
0000 1Ki.2:10,11 David [ 1037 BC ]. Ruth 4:18-22; 1Chr.3:1-17;
0480 1Ki.6:1; Promised Land 897 to 1377 after flood. 1033 BC
0036 1Ki.11:42 Solomon dies 1413 after flood. 997BC
3069 & 997 & 2007 is 6073 after Adam as LOST to SAVED.
0000 Rev.20:6; 1000 year reign of Jesus. 1000 is 7072 years accounted for.

Eph.2:7; 3:21; The world with Jesus is without end. John 3:16; 2Pet.3:13 All made new.

THIS IS NOT THE AGE OF THE EARTH.

Answer 10

It was worked out using the bible. People used to think that everything in the bible was correct, and figured it out from the dates and kings and places etc. Now we know that that was all a bit silly, and that the world was formed a few million years ago.

Answer 11

It was the ones who call themselves "Christian Scientists". You remember all those kids who dropped Gen Chem before mid-term. It's no wonder they think that Carbon 14 dating is a lie. They can't even tell you what a radio-active half life is!

Science is not based on Folklore!