I believe the earth is about 6,000 years old. There is scientific evidence to back this up.
If you are a Christian, how old do you think the world is?
Did you know that scientists use carbon dating for rocks? Carbon dating is unreliable. I found this out from a creationist website. It was a very reliable and good site and even though I don't have the link, there is scientific evidence that supports Christianity and the fact that all human genomes go back to only 4,000 B.C.
It is possible that in the six days it was created really meant one thousand years, but even then it still supports a young earth.
Dinosaurs lived with humans. Fossils of footprints have been found in Texas. Scientists have hidden this information because they have an agenda.
So, if you're a Christian, how old is the earth?
2007-03-10 14:23:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well! Lets say The Earth is younger than you are!!That's why Jesus Christ Said I new your name before the fondation of the Earth!
2007-03-10 16:06:01 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian and the world is 5 billion years old. Carbon dating is pretty reliable and your creationist website is simply partisan. Go look for other sources. How do you explain that human embryos have a tail at the early stages- is a vestigial feature! Or that our DNA with monkeys is 96% similiar and human sperm and monkey sperm pretty much look the same. Dinosaurs didn't live with humans, have you been watching the Flinstones as if was a documentary? There is no evidence backing this up, humans didn't coexist with dinosaurs. Just because you believe in evolution doesn't make you any less of Christian, God gave us a brain to think and not conform to what people preach. Look at the evolutionary process as God's work. Realize his full potential and how he made it all happen.
2007-03-10 22:36:42 · answer #2 · answered by cynical 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are misinformed. Carbon-14 dating is very reliable if used on an organic specimen between 6 000 and 40 000 years old.
C-14 dating is not the only dating technique used by scientists. Potassium-argon dating is used to date older specimens. Potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.3 billion years, as opposed to the half-life of C-14 which is 5 730 years.
I won't even bother rebutting the other "facts" you have mentioned here, because they are utter garbage.
If there truly was any proof that the world was only 6000 years old, do you really think we would be having this discussion?
2007-03-10 23:21:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Scientists use at least a dozen different methods for dating of rocks, and all the methods used corroborate the fact that the earth is about 4.5 to 4.6 billion years old. There is absolutely no scientific evidence to suggest otherwise. If there was, don't you suppose scientists might have noticed??
Dinosaurs were extinct for millions of years before humans appeared. This is known and incontrovertible fact. The silly Texas incident was exposed as a hoax years ago. The only agenda scientists have is discovering the truth. It is sad that so many who call themselves Christians have to deny the obvious truth in order to support their personal interpretations of the Bible, interpretations which they apparently consider infallible, even though they conflict with the Biblical interpretations of many other Christian churches. Jesus said the truth would set us free. Why do so many insist on remaining in bondage to their unauthoritative, unsubstantiated guesses about the meaning of God's Word? And yes, I am a Christian, orthodox and devout. But also educated.
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2007-03-10 22:37:18 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know the exact number, but I do know that it is several billion years old. My guess would be in the four to six billion year range.!!!!! There is no scientific evidence that supports the 6000 year hypothesis...sorry!!!!! I do, however, believe that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. I can't prove it, of course, but I believe it, because I believe that humans have been around way longer than most people think.!!!!!
2007-03-10 22:40:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hmm. I'm in Texas and I really, really don't believe the dinos roaming the West Texas plains with humans part of your "question". And, no there isn't any "scientific evidence" to support your claim that the earth is 6,000 years old.
How old is the earth? It's as old as it is.
2007-03-10 22:31:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, you are wrong. Scientific evidence (Radiometric dating) shows that the earth to be around 4 billion years old.
If the earth is old, then radioactive isotopes with short half-lives should have all decayed already. That is what we find. Isotopes with half-lives longer than eighty million years are found on earth; isotopes with shorter half-lives are not, the only exceptions being those that are generated by current natural processes.
2007-03-10 22:27:02 · answer #7 · answered by gruz 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
carbon dating isn't unreliable, it simply has too short a half life to be used in all cases, there are plenty of other radio isotopes that can be used for longer timespans
2007-03-10 22:28:42 · answer #8 · answered by Nick F 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ages.
2007-03-10 22:33:10 · answer #9 · answered by chucky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been 2007 years since Christ died, but I don't know how many B.C. years there has been.
2007-03-10 22:28:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋