reasons?
2007-02-17 04:18:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Joel V: You know nothing about Carbon dating, which NO one says is accurate for more than a few thousand years. The evidence for a 4.5 billion year old earth is geologic. It has nothing to do with Carbon dating.
2007-02-17 05:19:59 · update #1
I believe the earth is 130 years old. Everything we think is our history was just planted here. Like dinosaurs. Has anyone SEEN the earth 131 years ago?
2007-02-17 04:22:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. The evidence is there. The earth is obviously not 6000 years old.
For a start; fossils. Okay, people say they are the remains of things deposited after the great flood. Explain carbon dating.
People also say ‘what about sea life found on top of mountains’. Continental drift. Continents collide and create mountains (which is also one of the causes for earthquakes). Also of sea life being found in the middle of deserts. Climate change. What was once vast oceans dried up to become desert.
There's just a lot of evidence for me to conclude that the earth is a lot older thank 6000 years.
2007-02-17 04:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by Skippy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tend toward The 4.5 billion.
I also believe older than that.
We have the pieces of rock from the moon. They measure 4.5 billion years old---carbon life test--argon life test.
We know that the moon was created on the 4th. day.
Gen 1:16 And God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
Gen 1:17 And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
Gen 1:18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
There were 3 days prior to that.
We measure time by the sun and the moon, they were created on the 4th. day.
God's day and our day are not the same thing.
We are men, He is God.
Our concept of God is very limited.
I think probably 15 billion years old, maybe more.
2007-02-17 04:31:46 · answer #3 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is several billions of years old. The bible does not say when God created the heavens and the earth and I know they are very old but the universe is still growing. Genesis 1:1 just makes a statement as to who created the heavens and the earth but does not say when. Genesis 1:2 Begins to tell us how God prepared the earth for life.
2007-02-17 04:24:01 · answer #4 · answered by Pinkribbon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole idea of the earth being billions of years old is based on carbon dating. The fact is, no one know for sure that "this specific fossil was around a billion years ago" so there's no standard for comparison for carbon dating, it's all based on theory. I wonder how people criticize religion to be based on faith when carbon dating, along with a lot of other science, is based on theory, which in itself is a type of faith.
2007-02-17 04:27:13 · answer #5 · answered by Joel V 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Earth itself was formed in whole or part since the beginning of the our Solar System. However, the materials that make up the Earth come from past stars, and the materials that made up those stars came from the first stars to appear in the Universe after the big bang. Who knows before that.
2007-02-17 04:22:37 · answer #6 · answered by Pint 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is approximately 4.5 billion years old. IT IS A FACT supported, by among other things, the fossil record, the decay of radioactive isotopes, and the speed and distance of the stars in the heavens.
2007-02-17 04:30:35 · answer #7 · answered by Arthur P. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say 4.5 billion ( at the least) because all the time everything would take 2 evolve and every ameoba and the atmosphere. But i dont think humans were on the earth that far back.
2007-02-17 04:23:54 · answer #8 · answered by Faith 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't content with knowing that my self, because I feel better knowing that the fact is that time is relative, perhaps just in this case?, although more than few billions and it has been refurbish at least more than, few times, perhaps 90, Oh, in this Universe God own Three earth's, different times, and different space's of Course, in what we call parallel universes, although one of then the third, isn't yet in its own Universe, but the future Humanity of that earth, its in this Second hearth....,and part of such portion of Humanity, is in the Country of Tibet, at this time.
2007-02-17 04:31:32 · answer #9 · answered by paradiseemperatorbluepinguin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4.5 billion. Think about this. There's a city in lebanon called byblos that has been continously inhabited since 5,000 bce. That makes it 7,000 yrs old.
If u don't believe me take the time and look it up
2007-02-17 04:26:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋