Do you believe the earth is 6000 years old? Why?

Answer 1

Maybe we should take a rocket and go into space to see if we can find a best sold by date or something that might give us an aswer to this question. We could cut it like a tree and count the rings. Sounds good to me.

Answer 2

Given the fact that, according to the Bible, Adam was created on the sixth day of our planet’s existence, we can determine a Biblically-based, approximate age for the earth by looking at the chronological details of the human race. This of course assumes that the Genesis account is accurate, that the six days of creation described in Genesis were literal 24-hour periods, and that there were no ambiguous chronological gaps.
The genealogies listed in Genesis chapters five and eleven provide the age at which Adam and his descendants each begot the next generation in a successive ancestral line from Adam to Abraham. By determining where Abraham fits into history chronologically and by adding up the ages provided in Genesis chapters five and eleven, it becomes apparent that the Bible teaches the earth to be about 6,000 years old, give or take a few hundred years.

Answer 3

4.5 billion. Because when we date any rock found just about anywhere in the entire solar system using various types of radiological methods the answer is always 4.2 to 5 billion years old. The solar system and the Earth came together sometime in that time frame.

Edit: You gotta love rumors like the turtle one above me. No one uses Carbon 14 to date anything older than 50,000 years because the half life is too short and the concentrations get too low at that time. There is no way a C14 test even could return a million year old answer.

Answer 4

Personally, no. i do know, however, quite a few ppl who do. there line of reasoning is that they take the Torah (5 books of Moses/Bible/Old Testament) literally. And according to those calulations, the world is 5767 years old (or 5967 if you add the missing 190 years under debate).

I hear where they're coming, however i dont agree for the following reason: the torah wasn't written as a history book. which is also the reason why the talmud says that "there is no order in the Torah." Personally, i understand the 7 days of creation not as 7 actual periods of 24 hours each, but rather as 7 periods. after all, the Torah calls each day a day, but the sun and moon werent even created until the 4th day! so who's counting and by what means r they counting by?
and the 5767, this is from the time that the first man, adam, was created. after all, before man, there was no real concept of time.

hope i helped!

Answer 5

Well, based upon popular science it isn't, is it? By the way,
didn't carbon dating once put a living tortiose' shell fragments at about a million or so years old? So much for that.

Answer 6

THE TIME IN THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS IS IN THE BIBLE AND NO OTHER TIME

TIME INVOLVED IN THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS [ No age of earth given in bible].
0000 ][ Gen.1:1,2; All exist, is it billions? Gen.1:3-25; Preparation of existing earth.
0000 ][ John 17:3,5,24; Col.1:15-17; Rev.3:12,14; Jesus was with God first.
0000 ][ Jesus first creation created in image of God. Gen.1:26; Adam in their image.
0000 ][ Gen.5:3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 25, 28 is 1056 Noah age 600 Gen.7:6; is
1656 ][ 130, 105, 90, 70, 65, 162, 65, 187, 182 is 1056 Noah Son #10, age 600 flood.
0000 ][ Gen.11:10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 is 222 Gen.11:32 is 205 to 427
0427 ][ 2, 35, 30, 34, 30, 32, 30, 29 is 222 + 205 Gen.11:32; 427 after flood.
0000 ][ Abrahan son #20 Matt.1:1-17; Has Promised Land Covenant 427th year.
0000 ][ Gen.21:5; 25:26; 47:9,28; 50:26; Job 42:16; Exo.7:7; Moses age 80.
0000 ][ 25 Isaac age 60, 147 Jacob, Joseph 53, Job 65, Moses at 80 is 430 years.
0430 ][ Exodus 12:40,41 [430 ]Gal.3:16-18; heirs & law 857 to 897 after Flood.
0040 ][ Aaron & Moses die 40th year Num.33:38,39; Deut.34:7; Arnon Heirs.
0000 ][ Josh,5:6,10,12; 14th day New Year 898, Judges 11:26; 300 is 1198th.
0000 ][ Acts 13:20; 450 & 857 is 1307 Samuel age 80, David age 4. 1103 BC
0000 ][ Samuel 1103 to 1083 BC, all want a king, at Saul 1117 to 1077 BC
0000 ][ David 1303-1327-1333-1373 after Flood, 1107-1083-1077-1037 BC
0000 ][ Ruth 4:18-22; 1Chr.3:1-17 [ David's family, Mary from Nathan line ];
0480 ][ 1Ki.6:1; 480 & 897 at heirs is 1377 after flood, Solomon 4th. 1033 BC
0036 ][ 1Ki.2:10,11; David #34. 1Ki.11:42; Solomon 36 [ of 40 ], dies at 997 BC
0391 ][ 17, 3, 41, 23, 8, 1, 6, 40, 29, 52, 16, 16, 29, 55, 2, 31, 11, 11 kings end.
~~~~~~ Jehoiachin son #48 captive 2Ki.25:27-30. Eze.1:2; Jer.52:31-34;
3460 kings end, 606 BC bible years end, 2007 years ago at 6073 after Adam.

THERE WILL BE NO KING UNTIL JESUS AT HIS SECOND COMING = PROPHECY.

Answer 7

That was created by someone who was trying to figure out how long the earth was.But with God,how long is a day to an immortal being?People are always trying to bottle God to their understanding.

Answer 8

no ... and even a slight glancing look at the story of creation in genesis1 would not contest that the earth is much older than the 6 day creation ..."in the beggining" could have been millions of years before "let there be light" on earth ....

Answer 9

yes I absolutley believe that the earth is between 6 and 7 thousand years old. timeline of the events in the bible.

Answer 10

No, I believe it is much older. Check out the Old Testament and all the generations even before the great flood.