2007-02-21 21:27:16 · 17 answers · asked by mick 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Four billion Years
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The Earth was formed around 4.57 billion years ago and its natural satellite, the Moon, was orbiting it shortly thereafter, around 4.53 billion years ago. The outer surface is divided into several tectonic plates that gradually migrate across the surface over geologic time spans. The interior of the planet remains active, with a thick layer of convecting yet solid mantle and an iron core that generates a magnetic field.
2007-02-21 21:29:40 · answer #1 · answered by Foster Clark 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that the Earth formed at the same time as the rest of our solar system, 4.6 billion years. This age came form raiometric dating of an asteroid in our solar system.
I'm not a planetary geologist or astrologist so I can' tell you why all planets, the sun and nonplanet bodies are considered the same age. It makes sense though that the processes that created the Earth were widespread in our solar system.
Perhaps, if scientists view other nebulas, they can view various stages of solar system growth.
2007-02-23 14:52:25 · answer #2 · answered by justin_at_shr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientifically : The old of the earth is 4.5 billion years
Bible : The age f the earth is about 8000 years
As for me ... Nothing that happened in the past could be verified ....The earth could have been created yesterday , we all got our memories implanted in our brain
2007-02-22 06:34:24 · answer #3 · answered by jimy86Leb 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Modern geologists consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.567 billion years.
2007-02-22 05:31:56 · answer #4 · answered by GURU 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The Earth is accepted by scientists to be around 4.5 billion years old"
Biblically some believe it is only 6000 some years
2007-02-22 05:35:43 · answer #5 · answered by Ron J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
man makes mistakes so there is only a 50% chance any answer you get would be right. man is 7130 but any thing beforee that there are no records. the earth was much different befor man and things aged different so with out knowing the climate and how the world was how can you get a right answer
2007-02-22 06:02:14 · answer #6 · answered by unitedfaith 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
4/5 billion years.
2007-02-22 05:40:53 · answer #7 · answered by Pretty Girl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
about 6,000 years...the Bible says so therefore its a fact...we must trust the extensive data sets in the Bible represented by so many pie charts, tables and figures...the Bible, it is a wonderful scientific product...it must be true...Evolution is just a theory...the Bible was here before Darwin...excuse me now while I go put my head back in the sand
2007-02-22 13:39:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
4,600,000,000 years (approximately). Because the figure is determined by radioactive decay, a very small error one way or the other is probable.
2007-02-22 07:13:43 · answer #9 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
old enough to know better
actually it depends which side of the fence you are on.
fundamentalists will tell you 5-6 thousand years
science will say millions of years
carl sagan would say billyyuns and billyyuns
2007-02-22 05:30:59 · answer #10 · answered by molly 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋