My friend at work has told me time and time again that the world is only 6000 years old? i dont believe that?

Question

he says its because he follows the bible word for word he knows its true. He believes that man existed with dinosaurs and the great flood killed all of them. someone tell me why he is wrong.

Answer 1

No no no, the earth is neither 6000 nor 15000 years old.

It is about 4.5 BILLION years old.

Answer 2

ok, the world is not as old as scientist say. They have to base their findings on evidence. so they the scientist, made the carbon time frame. so they can determine how many years may have passed. so they can narrow it down to fit into history, and to see how its as acrute as the bilbe. It has been shown, that researches, have found detroyed bulidings of bible times to fit in with their findings. And yes man did live with the dinosaurs. How else would they know what they look like on the cave walls. But tell your friend the world is over 6000yrs old. if one goes by the time of Adams death and adds up all those who lived passed a 100. then total it, plus the time it took to create the world.(1000 yrs for each day) it will add up to about 16,000yrs give or take. maybe a little bit more. but i'm close

Answer 3

If he reads instead of listening to others he will see Genisis 1:1-2
says that In the beginning the heavens and earth were without form and void. THEN it says God said let there be light. Light was the first thing God created. Then he divided the waters, firmament and so forth. The creation of earth is never mentioned in the 6-7 day creation because he had already created it before then.
The earth could have been here for thousands of years before God decided to create in Gen 1:3-

Many people believe one day could have been a thousand years
during creation but others say that once the plants were created they could not have survived with the sun shining one thousand years without night.

Man is only 6,000 years old.

Also the Bible says that the devil was at one time God's most beautiful of Gods angels until he rebelled and cast him out of heaven to earth. Many people believe satan inhabited the earth for the time before creation, possibly with the dinosaurs but the dinosaurs were likely here until the flood.

Answer 4

He is wrong because Science has not yet found the conclusive, unchallengeable proof in support of the theories and conjectures. The 'world' may be very old. About 6000 years is the age of the humans on Earth. Their ancestors were not apes. The first human by birth was a perfect human, born as such to human parents.

Answer 5

One of the many problems with the 6000 year theory is that people have been saying it for 7000 years.

The 6000 year theory gained popularity in the 19th century. Since then there have been so many advances in the technology that looks at scientific evidence of age, that the 6000 year concoction is completely at odds with what the earth tells us about itself.

Another major problem with the 6000 year notion is that the speed of light is well known. By using relatively simple apparatus one can determine that light from many distant galaxies has had to travel a much longer time than 6000 years to get here. So for the earth to be only 6000 years old, the light from these galaxies would have had to start its journey before "god created the heavens and the earth."

The 6000 year theory is the provence of "flat-earthers" and others who have so little faith in anything that they must cling to mythology rather than adapting their faith so as to make it consistent with observable fact.

Answer 6

Biblical folks like a comfortable figure that they can trace back to Adam & Eve. Anything else causes complications with their beliefs. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe has an even younger age for Earth Ver 1.1

Science pegs the earth at 4.4-4.6 billion years old.

Answer 7

Jesus teaches us that according to the father, time is irrelevant, so tell them if they believe in Jesus to believe what the men in his time said about him and the world of that time. Then your friend can justify reading English because American English wasn't spoken yet, it was created by the God of love. If your friend continues to preach delushions, be honest and tell them they are delusional, Chinese have recorded history from much longer ago, are they then the deluded ones?

Answer 8

The mountain of archeological and geological evidence. Not to mention that some actual human cultures have documented histories that pre-date the 6000 year mark.

Answer 9

The young earth creationist firmly maintains that Genesis chapter one is a literal, historical document that briefly outlines God's creative activity during six literal twenty-four hour days. If one assumes that the genealogies of Genesis chapters five and eleven represent a reasonable pre-Israelite history of the world, then the date of creation cannot be much beyond thirty thousand years ago.{1}

A critical theological conclusion in this view is a world free of pain, suffering, and death prior to the Fall in Genesis chapter three. God's prescription in Genesis 1:29 to allow only green plants and fruit for food follows along with this conclusion.

The universal flood of Noah, recorded in Genesis chapters six through nine, is also a crucial part of this view. On a young earth, the vast layers of fossil-bearing sedimentary strata found all over the earth could not have had millions of years to accumulate. Therefore, the majority of these sedimentary layers are thought to have formed during Noah's flood. Much research activity by young earth creationists is directed along this line.{2}

Young earth creationists also maintain the integrity of what is called the Genesis kind, defined in Genesis 1:11, 12, and 21. The dog kind is frequently given as an example of the Genesis kind. While this is still a matter of research, it is suggested that God created a population of dog-like animals on the sixth day. Since then, the domestic dog, wolf, coyote, African wild dog, Australian dingo, and maybe even the fox have all descended from this original population. Young earth creationists suggest that God created the individual kinds with an inherent ability to diversify within that kind. But a dog cannot cross these lines to evolve into say, a cat.

The literal view of Genesis chapter one has been predominant throughout Church history and it proposes a testable scientific model of the flood and the Genesis kind. Critics point out that there are immense difficulties explaining the entire geologic record in terms of the flood.{3} Principal among these problems is that it appears there are many more animals and plants buried in the rocks than could have been alive simultaneously on the earth just prior to the flood.

Progressive Creationism
The next view to discuss is progressive creationism. The progressive creationist essentially believes that God has intervened throughout earth history to bring about His creation, but not all at once over six literal twenty-four hour days. The progressive creationist will accept the long ages of the earth and the universe while accepting that there is some historical significance to the creation account of Genesis.
A popular view of Genesis chapter one is called the day-age theory. This view agrees that the events described in the first chapter of Genesis are real events, but each day is millions, perhaps billions of years in duration. The Hebrew word for day, yom, can mean an indefinite period of time such as in Genesis 2:4. This verse summarizes the first thirty-four verses of the Bible by stating, "This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heaven" (emphasis added). In this case, the word day refers to the previous seven days of the creation week. Consequently, the progressive creationist feels there is justification in rendering the days of Genesis chapter one as indefinite periods of time.{4}

Therefore, the progressive creationist has no problem with the standard astronomical and geological ages for the universe and the earth. A universe of fifteen billion years and an earth of 4.5 billion years are acceptable. In regard to evolution, however, their position is similar to the young earth creationists'. Progressive creationists accept much of what would be called microevolution, adaptation within a species and even some larger changes. But macroevolutionary changes such as a bird evolving from a fish are not seen as a viable process.{5}

These are the basic beliefs of most progressive creationists. What do they think is the predominant reason for holding to this perspective? Most will tell you that the evidence for an old universe and earth is so strong that they have searched for a way for Genesis chapter one to be understood in this framework. So the agreement with standard geology and astronomy is critical to them. Progressive creationists also find the biblical necessity for distinct evidence for God's creative activity so strong that the lack of macroevolutionary evidence also dovetails well with their position.

The most difficult problem for them to face is the requirement for pain, suffering, and death to be a necessary part of God's creation prior to Adam's sin. The atheistic evolutionist, Stephen J. Gould, from Harvard, commented on this problem of God's design over these many millions of years when he said, "The price of perfect design is messy relentless slaughter."{6} There are also major discrepancies with the order of events in earth history and the order given in Genesis. For instance if the days of Genesis are millions of years long, then when flowers were created on day three, it would be millions of years before pollinators, such as bees, were created on days five and six.

Answer 10

Part wrong and part right. The earth is more like about 15,000 years but the rest is accurate pretty much.