How is this possible? Wasn't our good Lord God created earth only 6000 years back? Or as some embarrassed Bible thumpers would say, the mankind is only 6000 years old (not the earth), for a better feeling?
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2007-02-23 08:16:09 · 17 answers · asked by enlight100 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mike K, are you an illiterate or what? Can't you read the responses from your co-Bible thumpers?
2007-02-23 08:24:02 · update #1
My sister is a bible thumper and said the same thing about the earth only being 6000 years old, and she told me that anything that is here to suggest that the earth is older was planted by the devil to confuse us and turn us away from God.
I personally believe in Dinosaurs and things like that, so according to her I'm going to hell. Well at least I'll be warm.
2007-02-23 08:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by photogrl262000 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You cannot get the age of the earth thru carbon dating.
You cannot get the age of the earth thru carbon dating.
You cannot get the age of the earth thru carbon dating.
You cannot get the age of the earth thru carbon dating.
You cannot get the age of the earth thru carbon dating.
Ok, lets get that straight. Geology uses other methods to come up with an approximate age of the earth. Uranium testing of very old granite can give much more reliable numbers. They use other methods as well. Take a geology class and you will learn a lot. Carbon testing is only good if the test sample is a few thousand years old (somewhere between 58,000 and 62,000 years is the limit).
In samples less than the the maximum age, carbon testing works fine.
It is true that the 6000 year old earth belongs to the fundamentalists. They use the bible to back that up. By taking the ages of the various people listed in the book and adding them up until you get to a point where history can take over, they add up the age of the earth to be 6000 years.
Not all christians believe in this. In fact, I would say that not even most christians believe this.
2007-02-23 08:35:48 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where'd you get that number??? 6000 years could have been the time God took to create the earth and all the stuff in it, then He rested for 1000 years, then we moved forward and had the next 5 or 6000 years til Christ, then 2 more after that. Time has been measured differently throughout history, and to God, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day. How do we know which he meant when He created the earth in 6 days?? WE don't.
2007-02-23 08:22:43 · answer #3 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I take the term Bible thumper as a complement. Thank you. I don't know all the answers, but I know God made the Earth, the moon, the stars, etc and that's good enough for me.
2007-02-23 08:34:02 · answer #4 · answered by the pink baker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nowhere in the Bible does it say how long people have been on Earth.Anyone who says that is guessing and guessing wrongly.Although I must say the scientists have blown it with carbon dating many times.All I know is you can go back 6,000 years or 6,000,000,000 years and Jesus will be there to say "Whaz up?".Genesis 1 :1 says "In the begining,God created the Heavens and the Earth."...That's all it says.It could have been a Trillion years ago.
2007-02-23 08:28:28 · answer #5 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You obviously believe the info provided by science is correct then use that info to bash believers. I am willing to guess that you are not a scientist or historian but someone that chose to believe this info on faith. [Funny that] Galileo said that science was proof that God was real.
2007-02-23 08:30:42 · answer #6 · answered by Cannon Nivram 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Forget first Americans.
The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Humans as we would recognize them are about 3 million years old.
2007-02-23 08:20:44 · answer #7 · answered by Nick W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a problem with that. I wonder if you've heard of the Gap Theory of Genesis 1:1 - 1:2?
Well, I guess you have now! lol
2007-02-23 08:20:12 · answer #8 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey bonehead. That number was created by fundamentalists. Most Christians don't believe that. You atheists are soooo original, using the same things over and over. All you people do is spout the same rhetoric. You give great atheists like Ayn Rand a bad name. Do you think Darwin says "Bravo" when he hears a moron like you spouting assumptions?
2007-02-23 08:21:17 · answer #9 · answered by Mike K 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We don't have to say anything.
Bible has proved that is a book fully fictional.
Anything that has been written in it has nothing to do with truth.
So why bother?
2007-02-23 08:24:26 · answer #10 · answered by chris the greek 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋