Do people really believe the earth is 6,000 yr old??? HOW??

Question

I know there are some brainwashed weirdo Christians in the world, but do they REALLY believe this part? Or are they just saying it to get a rise out of the political Left?

Answer 1

Sure.History and geology are on the side of Creationists.Carbon dating methods are not infallible.And the geologic columns are an invention of man.Noone believed in the millions or billions of years ago fairy tale until 150 years ago or less.

Answer 2

They have been told by people they respect and who are right about other things that the earth is 6000 years old. Often they figure out that the authorities they are believing are wrong about one thing and it goes downhill from there- that's why the nastiest antichristians are exchristian.

Never been any kind of Christian myself, but people in the hands of charismatic leaders believing silly things happens all the time.

Answer 3

Yes. Also many scientist believe this. If you add up the dates given in the Bible you come up with about 6200 years. The oldest known artifact that does not have a disputed date is about 5500 years old. All the old stuff (rocks, dino bones, ect.) are dated by speculation. They are dated by their position in the geologic layers and the index fossil in that layer. This method was developed around 1830, long before even the c-14 method. Newer radio-metric dating methods have been developed that go far beyond c-14, but they have to agree with the geologic column, or they will be discarded as faulty date. If the geologic column falls, then so does evolution. All radio-metric methods must be calibrated to the geologic column. It is the standard-Even though the dates assigned to these layers was assumed long, long ago.

Answer 4

You're right, it's complete balderdash! The truth is obvious: since God was born on January 19, 1809 will die on October 7, 1849, the entire universe only exists during those 40 years. The rest is just a dream, being dreamed within that 40 year period.

Answer 5

I think some Christians believe THIS earth age is 6000, but who knows the total years? And who knows how long a year was back when people first started documenting history?

Answer 6

It is only believable with a complete rejection of rationality and fact...

You can believe there is a pink unicorn sitting on my head if you want; but, much like the 6,000 year old Earth concept, it's not really true...

Answer 7

I'm Christian and none of my Christian friends believe that. Of course we know the earth is billion of years old. One day in The Bible could mean millions of years. Much of what is in the Old Testament is symbollic anyways.

Answer 8

Sheer unchallenged ignorance, that's how.

People actually believe it. It may require a hardy denial of reality, but it's possible if belief is strong enough... not to mention christians tend to feel inner conflict and dissonance as reality does not match up with their biblical beliefs, so they go to christian apologist sources and believe the weak (but persuasive) fallacious arguments they see there and are reassured.

Answer 9

Half the people in the US have an IQ under 100.

49% of the people in the US believe the Earth was created in the last 10,000 years.

Coincidence? I think not.

Answer 10

The earth as we know it is as the scvientists say...some billions of years old.
We have dinosaur bones to prove that. also the fact that geologists can prove massive erosion.
It is MAN himself that has a short history, not the earth.
MAN has only been on the earth for about 8,000 years.
The Bible account of the age of the Jewish Patriarchs..[Genesis ch. 5] and the geneology of Jesus [ Matthew ch. 1 and Luke ch. 3] show this time span.