If the Earth was proven to be 6000 years old...?

Question

would it change your view on God?

I'm not saying it's possible, but IF credible scientists all agreed that the Earth was 6-10,000 years old....

Answer 1

It would be damn hard to overturn the insurmountable evidence pointing to an earth of about 4.5 billion years.

But for the sake of the question, it would probably make me a Christian.

Answer 2

This is a very difficult question for Jews and Christians, but Muslims don't consider this a problem at all. The Quran says nothing of the sort.

In fact, Islamic belief is that God sent more than 124,000 prophets to guide us humans. These prophets included Abraham, Noah, Moses, David, Jesus, etc. The last of these messengers was Muhammad who came about 600 years after Jesus.

If we consider that these 124,000 prophets lived at least a few decades each, and there was propbably a gap of a few years between them, then according to Islamic belief the human race has existed on earth for, perhaps, more than a million years.

We Muslims also believe that the Earth and most of its creatures were created by God much before he created us humans.

Answer 3

It would take more than that for the average person.

Don't forget that the bible tells how all the people at Mount Sinai heard G-d speak after the ten plagues and being saved at the "red" sea. Within 40 days they built a golden calf and called it their god.

So if that didn't change them then something like proving the Earth to be 6000 years old won't do.

Maybe these things need to learned at a more spiritual level and can't be shoved in peoples' faces today

Answer 4

Wow. Six thousand to ten thousand years old?

Scientists would NEVER say that about Earth. Earth is indeed at least ONE billion years old.

Dinosaurs existed millions of years ago. If it was true, where would the dinosaurs be? Would they have evolved so quickly, turning into fish and birds, water and land mammals and then primates and then humans in under 6,000 years? I find that hard to believe.

Answer 5

They would have a mountain of evidence to over come. And you would have to reset about every single branch of science to about 1800 because most of what they have done in life sciences, geology, astrophysics, and a few other disciplines is all built on the work that dates the Earth to 4.5 billion years give or take.

The odds of this happening are less than Jesus showing up at my door. So it really isn't worth the time to consider.

Answer 6

It would change my view of the age of the Earth. And it would change my view of the credibility of the unanimous opinion of scientists, which, by the way, say the Earth is MUCH MUCH older.

Answer 7

Too many things exist on the earth that have taken way more than 10,000 yrs to form, so your question is illogical. Science is the basis of what we know. Ignorance is the foundation of religion, it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Answer 8

THE BIBLE DOES NOT GIVE THE AGE OF THE EARTH

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 9

But there's evidence that Humans have existed for about 160000 years, so Humans can't be older than the Earth, can we? Anyway, the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.

Answer 10

It's already been proven that the earth is 4 - 4.5 billion years old.