why do some people still belive that the earth is only 6000 years old?

Answer 1

Back in the Middle Ages, some Catholic bishop calculated back, making his own assumptions, and figured out that the world began in 4004 BC. For some weird reason, Protestants picked THAT particular thing to bring out of catholicism.

Go figure.

Answer 2

The earth is billions of years old and they are not saying the globe is that old. The animals who knows how long they have been here. Thousands and thousands of years.
what they are saying by going back through time Adam died at such and such an age. He was the son of and he lived that then using history to record these historical people mentioned like Babylon's desctruction of Jersaleum. Called pivotal dates they are saying that humans have been on the earth 6000 years.

Answer 3

The Bible does not say how old the earth is, i figure it's older than 6000 years

Answer 4

simple .. thats just what they were taught .... give it a rest ... it really makes no difference to absolutely anything anyway ... any person that reads genesis for themselves with understanding can deduce that it in no way implies the earth was created at the time of the present ecosystem on earth ...

Answer 5

Who says the earth is only 6,000 years old? The Bible gives no age of the earth. The only one who truly knows how old the earth is , is God Himself, the Creator of everything

Answer 6

Same reason why some people still believe the earth is flat, they're uneducated.

Answer 7

The individual Faerie whings is mistaken- it has to matter what creationists believe in by virtue of the fact that they are pro-actively promoting their ideology as scientific fact. You just can't concede that to them and allow them to go unchallenged or kids will grow up believing creationist fantasies are real science.

Answer 8

Because some fool in the middle ages decided to count all the metaphorical dates in the bible and came up with some number around ~5800 years. I think they were gave a day and month, which is pretty funny when you realize how vague the bible is.

Answer 9

I actually know someone who went to college and thinks that dinosaurs never existed and there is some conspiracy theory of people going into the desert and planting the fossils. and they think Islam is nuts.

Answer 10

Misled... they believe a MISINTERPRETATION of Scripture.

Scripture was never intended to be shuffled like playing cards FOR ANY PURPOSE. One of the main "rules" of exegesis, the SCIENCE of Biblical interpretation, is CONTEXT.

Ussher, who arrived at the 4004 B.C. creation through "adding up" the ages included in the genealogies, LIFTED hundreds of passages OUT OF CONTEXT and pieced them together where HE thought they "lined up" to arrive at HIS date.