Do you believe it is possible that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old?

Question

Please explain your answer....cite references, etc.

Answer 1

Not only do I believe its possible, I believe that it IS actually 10,000 years or less old.

My references are various biblical scriptural events that occurred that point to the earth being somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 years old.

While scientists claim that evolution occurred over "millions of years", there's not really any evidence to back that up either. There's a lot of theories about how to date certain materials, but those ages and timelines only hold true if the theories on how to tell how old they are...are true as well.

I'm not going to try to "prove" that I'm right. I'm merely going to suggest that I believe it on faith. If you can *prove* to me that the earth is millions of years old, I'll believe you. But I don't think you're going to be able to do that. So you believe what you'd like, and I'll believe what I'd like.

Reading the answers above mine, my question is, HOW do the fossils prove that?

Answer 2

There's ice core samples taken from Antarctica that are older then that. Some archaeologists say the Sphinx could be over 12,000 years old...and the deluge that destroyed Atlantis supposedly happened between 12- and 13,000 years ago. There's pictoforms etched in places that only an advanced primate could have done in regions that people inhabited over 10,000 years ago

It's possible that modern day human-kind is less than 10,000 years old.....but fossilized proof, the discovery of stone tools and many objects carbon 14 dated would dictate that even humans and our ancestors are far older.

Scientists have even found vague proof of evidence that a humanoid (possibly highly intelligent) might have walked the Earth over a million years ago. I don't know if I buy that theory...but the evidence is there.

Answer 3

Some people believe that, because they believe the Bible, and the Bible says that it all happened pretty quickly.

These people don't look at the problem this gives them, that the Creator must have constructed the various observable features from which scientists believe they can deduce that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. So, is the Creator deceitful? Or are his natural laws inconstant? The short-term Creationists do not want to look at this problem, dismissing it as being only a problem for non-believers.

It all depends on what kind of God you want to believe in. I would see the God of these Creationists as a more capricious and demanding one than mine.

Answer 4

I believe that the Earth is considerably younger than 1 million years old, and I can prove this by using the salinity of the ocean.

Ocean water is salty because salt is too heavy to evaporate. Salt gets into the ocean through surface runoff into the ocean. This is when water runs over the ground and into a water source. Since the water runs over rocks and dirt, minerals get mixed in with the water, and end up in the ocean. These minerals are the salts in the ocean. Oceans have high residency times, and no outlets, so salt accumulates there.

The hydrologic cycle has been studied enough for us to know how much salt is put into the ocean every year. In addition, we have a pretty good idea of how much salt is removed form the ocean every year. In the end, then , we can actually "add up" the amount of salt is going into the ocean and "add up" how much salt is being removed. As you might expect, this inventory leads us to the conclusion that more salt is going into the oceans than than what is being removed. In the end, then, the oceans are getting saltier and saltier. Suppose we assume that the oceans originally had absolutely no salt in them, and that all of the salt in them today came from the hydrologic cycle. Well, based in the inventory that scientists have done, you can actually determine how long it would take for freshwater oceans to become as salty as they are now. The most careful estimates indicate that it would take just over 1 million years to go from freshwater oceans to oceans with the salinity that we see today.

What does this tell us about the age of the earth? Well, first of all, it makes it awfully hard to believe that th earth is billions of years old. After all, if it really were billions of years old, then why aren't the ocean a lot saltier than they are now?

Secondly, the times that one calculates this are, in fact, only upper limits to the real age of the earth. If you believe in creation, then you know that God certainly created the oceans with salt in them, since organisms in the ocean are designed to live with salt (to make shells, etc...). Thus, the assumption that the oceans were completely freshwater is pretty silly. Also, careful analysis of the hydrologic cycle tells us that the rate of salt being dumped into the ocean most likely decreases as time goes on. As a result, the rate at which we measure now is probably lower than what it was a few thousand years ago. Thus the salinity of the oceans really tells us that the earth is significantly younger than 1 million years old.

It would be nice if the other people that answered this question would give their evidence or proof for their point of view instead of just saying "this is how it is."

Have a great day!

~iluvmycat

Answer 5

No

proof

The universe.

How could everything in the universe be within 10,000 light years? Even if you dont believe distances that those crazy "scientists who must be pushing an agenda" people then think of this, how could you possibly cram millions of stars and thousands of galaxies and all the things we can directly observe into a space that is only thousands of light years across. Crazy stuff would happen, its not possible.

Answer 6

No based on radioactive dating and the geology of the earth. It's about 4.5 billion years old and if the bible says differently, why would a god go through all the trouble to create evidence that it's 4.5 B years old when it's supposedly only a few thousand. That would be a cruel practical joke.

Answer 7

no it is not. 10,000 years is basically the beginning of recorded history. what about the dinosaurs? how long ago was that? were we running around 10,000 yrs ago in the backs of dinosaurs like the flintstones. when will you fundamental religous people get over that creationist B.S. it makes no sence......science can prove evolution, all creationist can say is you have to beleive.....grow up and face reality. just because the world and everyone in it was not created in 6 days doesn't mean god don't exist.....get over it

Answer 8

It's older than 10,000 years. Fossils can prove that through carbon dating. Don't include faith in this subject matter. It will be an endless debate and the original question will be buried by posts regarding faith....creation..etc...etc...

If you want to stand by your faith of God creating everything in 6 days, go to the...SOCIETY AND CULTURE > RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY section of this site and fire away 'til your heart's content...

Answer 9

It's highly unlikely. One method of disproving that claim might be to extrapolate rates of constant change in geological formations? Rocks are old, dude.

Answer 10

Anything is possible with God.

(now watch the thumbs down roll in!)