how delusional (or completely uneducated) do you have to be to believe that planet Earth is only 6500 yrs old?

Answer 1

Dear Friend,

If you were not there, how do you know that it is not?

God Bless

Answer 2

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. However, the truth is not subject to a popular vote.

You'd have to be either very blinkered or have no knowledge of the way the universe actually works to believe the young earth theory.

And to those who have and will inevitably say "science doesn't prove the way the universe works," you're half right. It actually disproves the hypotheses that are untenable and supports the theories that work. However, science has already disproved the notion of a young earth - but everyone ran around shouting LA LA LA with their fingers in their ears in case their children overheard the dangerous ideas of men with 180-and-up IQ's.

Answer 3

I like Princess Yum-Yum's answer. A biblical day means period of time - very convenient. So how many 'days' did it take your God to create the earth.

There is a fantastic amount of scientific evidence (just look at the pyramids) that the earth is a lot more than 6000 years old, and anyone who takes the bible literally is blinkered.

This reminds me of a scene in Red Dwarf where AJ Rimmer's parents were revealed to be 7th Day Hopists because of a misprint in their Bible that mentioned 'Faith, Hop and Charity and the greatest of these is Hop'. For some, simply reading the words in their holy book means it must be true, others can see the world for what it is. Billions of years old.

Answer 4

Bishop Joseph Usher was given the unenviable task of calculating how old the Earth was and all he had to go on was the chronology of mankind from Adam as given in the Bible. He worked it out at about 6,000 years.

However, the Hebrew word for day is 'yom' and can be interpreted as 1,000 or a million years. Here is the clue. The term 'day' as used in Genesis is NOT LITERAL. It can mean millions of years. Therefore, looking at the Bible account (which was originally written some 4,500 years ago) it becomes obvious that 'day' simply means a period of time. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

As far as I know...the church doesn't say the planet is only 6500 years old. Maybe some do, but for most denominations, the story of Adam and Eve is not thought to be a literal account of the creation.

It was written so we could understand that God is the creator, that we were given free-will and that we chose to sin against him.

I'm Catholic and the church says that creation is not at odds with evolution.

Answer 6

How delusional (or completely uneducated) do you have to be to believe that evolution is the cause of life? You have a monkey, and you have a human being. That is it. Nothing Else. No fossils evidence. No specie before the monkey, nothing after the monkey. Yet in 4.5 billion years you would think there would be trillions of fossils. The sun is supposedly 4.5 billion years old too, however if that was the case, then the early stages of life the monkey must have been frozen, or in a crock pot, depending on if you believe the sun is decreasing or increasing in size.

Answer 7

Actually its more like 6229 if you add up the times in the Bible. No one really knows how old the earth is-no one. Evolutionist believe it is about 4.5 by based on the assumed times assigned to the geologic column. But that is all conjecture, not fact. The basic foundation for this belief is several assumptions. Now, what does it make out of you and me when we ASSuME?

Answer 8

How delusional do you have to be to believe that a piece of paper makes you smart? Haven't you ever heard what the Wizard of Oz told the Straw Man? He said, "I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma."

Answer 9

It is only abou that old.You actually have to be a Christian and have Godly knowledge to know that.MOST scientists out there dont even know what they are talking about anyway.(not all).And dinosaurs WERE around with humans.Job in the Bible describes dinosaurs.So how can a person describe dinosaurs if they didnt exist?They obviously didnt have fossils put together of them.


And tangerine was somewhat right.There was a whole other world before humans.But THIS world is only about 6 to 10 thousand yrs old.God had to re-create because of Satan.

Answer 10

We can be educated beyond what has been force fed in the atheist factories designed by John Dewey and other education reformers of the twentieth century.
Your education may be the stumbling block that blinds you to the truth.
How you interpret the evidence is determined by your worldview.

May the Truth set you free.

Answer 11

Are you kidding? I'm Christian, and I tell you this: you have to be ultra delusional, ultra-uneducated, and ultra Biblically illiterate to say such a thing. The Bible says this earth is eons and eons old, in fact that there was an entire earth age before this one we live in now.

Some folks are just plain ignorant. Thats not a bash, it just means they do not know any better. I'm sure they mean well, but they aren't doing intellegent Christians any favors by openinig their mouths; I wish they would just be quiet.