how could the earth possibly be over 1 million years old?

Answer 1

The Earth is about 4.5 Billion years old. The universe is about 13.7 Billion years old. The Genesis creation "days" can also be interpreted as long periods of time which spanned over billions of years. The Hebrew word yom translated as "day" can also mean an indefinite period of time as in Genesis 2:4. Also, the Hebrew word for "morning" can also mean "beginning" and the Hebrew word for "evening" can also mean "completion"(In Daniel 8:27, the "mornings and evenings" clearly span over many years.) This is not to say that darwinism is true however, because darwinism is not supported by either modern science or the Bible. Modern science affirms biblical creation. www.reasons.org

Answer 2

Because it isn't impossible.

At least no one has ever provided any evidence that suggests otherwise. The closest was Lord Kelvin when he said the maximum age for the Earth could only be somewhere between 20 million and 400 million years based on cooling times, but he failed to take into account heat from radioactive decay. Even if they could provide such evidence, then they would be left with trying to fit whatever evidence they had with other evidence we already have, and explaining why the fundemental things we know about the speed of light, radioactivity, plate tectonics, sedimentary deposition, biology, and physics in general are all wrong.

That's all it would take. You had better get busy if you want to turn several hundred years of solid science on it's ear.

Answer 3

Well cabon-14 dating of fossils prove that the oldest known fossils, in fact, are cyanobacteria from Archaean rocks of western Australia, dated 3.5 billion years old. This may be somewhat surprising, since the oldest rocks are only a little older: 3.8 billion years old! Cyanobacteria are among the easiest microfossils to recognize. Morphologies in the group have remained much the same for billions of years, and they may leave chemical fossils behind as well, in the form of breakdown products from pigments. Small fossilized cyanobacteria have been extracted from Precambrian rock, and studied through the use of SEM and TEM (scanning and transmission electron microscopy).

The margin of error on the dating gets larger the older we date. So when in the 3 to 5 billions of years range your looking at around 100 to 300 million years of unceartianty.

Answer 4

Depends on if you believe in science or creationism. According to scientific data, the earth is 4.5 billion years old! If you believe in creationism, then the earth is no older than 6 thousand years old.

Carbon dating and other methods have dated fossils and rocks to millions of years old!

Answer 5

Anything is possible. When I was 6, and our teacher asked what kind of invention we would like to see, I remembered I mentioned that I wish to have a device that we can bring along anywhere with function of a phone, can play music and also to play game. The entire class laughed at me.

It takes a few decade to keep coming out new invention. If our earth is not as old as a million year, how can we possible to have so many invention till date?

Answer 6

Just like the tide rolls in and the tide rolls out, our planet is as a tiny molecule set in constant motion eons ago. And size is infinite in both directions larger and smaller than Earth. Look at an ocean wave and imagine a zillion zillion zillion molecules constantly moving and colliding randomly. Then imagine yourself riding obliviously on just one of those molecules for one second and you've probably lived a thousand years there. Now ask a better question.

Answer 7

Why don't you try over 4 Billion years old on latest research?

Answer 8

Why not? It's space. You could go billions of years without running into something like a black hole. And as it turns out, we have.

Answer 9

It is about 4.5 billion years old.

Answer 10

it's been around for a long time, that's how.