do christians really believe Earth is only 12,000 years old?

Question

and that God buried dinosaur remains to test our faith?

unimportant stuff? id say the history of our planet is fairly important.

6,000, sorry how silly of me

Answer 1

Yes Magoo, they're even more blind than you are!

Answer 2

Some Christians might tell you that the fossil record is proof of the great flood spoken of in Genesis. They might even tell you that if you construct a scientific model of the earth from the description given in Genesis you'll find that it explains the large insects and reptiles better than modern science can (they are just now adjusting there models to account for this). Finally, if Jesus really fed 5000 men with 3 loaves of bread and 2 fish then they ate fish and bread that had never been prepared but appeared to have a history. If God could do that, why couldn't He create an earth that was ready for habitation. Just a little food for thought.

Answer 3

The bible doesn't say the earth is 6,000 years old. It says man has been on earth for 6,000 years. Read the first and second verse of Genesis, chapter 1. There could have been a gazillion years between those verses, who knows and does it really matter? The important thing is believe in a Living God.

Answer 4

There are billions of Christians, I can only speak for myself. I believe that the earth is billions of years old, in fact is an old planet beginning to get a little past its best. I see no contradiction between the teachings of our leader and saviour Jesus Christ, the accounts of Creation in the Bible ( Adam and Eve for example are an allegory, the story has a purpose, it is not literal ) and the theory of evolution. I can accept that we have a common ancestor with the apes, that does not stop us from developing into images of God. Sorry if this isn't the answer you were expecting .

Answer 5

Some beleive that the earth is only 12k old, they are ultra fundamentalists. Its not a bad beleif it it could be possible. As for the whole dinosaur thing , i dont see how that would be possible. Infact there is fossil and biblical references that suggest that humans and Dinosaurs co-existed. In Texas they found human footprints beneith the footprints of Dinosaurs. this would suggest that there was a time when humans did co-exists . In the bible Job and Abraham describe creatures that sound identical to Dinosaurs. Ive never heard of the beleif that God buried them as a test of faith.

Answer 6

Take a look at Genesis 1:24-31. Here is a basic form of logic called a syllogism: T. Rex is a land animal. Land animals were made on day 6. Therefore, T. Rex was made on day 6. So, according to the Bible, dinosaurs lived beside man. Dinosaurs were made on day six of the creation week the same as man; they were beasts of the earth.

And yes, these were literal 24 hour days. “And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day” (Genesis 1:31). Exodus 20:11 also makes it clear, “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.” That’s where the seven day week came from. Besides that, there wasn’t death, disease, and suffering before Adam’s sin in chapter 3, when God cursed the earth. But, we find fossilized dinosaurs with cancer, tumors, diseases, defects, and we also find them along with fossilized thorns and thistles.

You are going to have a hard time trying to fit millions of years into the creation week with the gap or day-age theory, and still be consistent with Scripture. Given the genealogies of the Bible, it’s safe to assume that the world (along with Adam and Eve and the dinosaurs) was created less than 10,000 years ago.

Now, all those computerized documentaries on dinosaurs makes it look like we know quite a bit about them. The truth is, we usually just dig up bone fragments and they don’t come with a label and a Polaroid picture telling us when and how they lived and what they looked like. Most of it is guesswork. As Michael Lemonick has said, “Paleontology is much like politics: passions run high, and it’s easy to draw very different conclusions from the same set of facts.” That is why they sometimes put the wrong head on the wrong dinosaur (like with the Brontosaurus). That is why they argue if the T. rex was a predator or a scavenger. And why debate has raged about whether dinosaurs were warm or cold-blooded. It’s even difficult to tell whether a dinosaur is male or female from its bones.

So, what about radiometric dating methods; don’t they prove millions of years? Well, these are far from infallible—they are indirect methods based on quite a few assumptions, and evolutionary geologists themselves will often not accept a radiometric date unless they think it’s correct (i.e. it matches what they already believe). There are plenty of scientists who question their accuracy. For instance, the “RATE” project has discovered several striking examples of contradictions in these dating methods. If you want, you can get their book or movie called "Thousands...Not Billions" and learn about some of their remarkable results. If you do a bit of research, you will find that there is a lot of proof of radiometric dating not being accurate.

Science Daily website said (March 25, 2005): “Dr. Mary Schweitzer . . . has succeeded in isolating soft tissue from the femur of a 68-million-year-old dinosaur. Not only is the tissue largely intact, it’s still transparent and pliable, and microscopic interior structures resembling blood vessels and even cells are still present.” As Dr. David Menton said, “It certainly taxes one’s imagination to believe that soft tissue and cells could remain so relatively fresh in appearance for the tens of millions of years of supposed evolutionary history.” Wouldn’t that be a hit for the meat industry if we could figure out how to preserve meat for so long?

I believe the evidence fits much better with Noah’s flood 4-5 thousand years ago, and a recent extinction of dinosaurs.

Answer 7

I'm a Christian and also believe that God made the Heaven and Earth in 7 days....

But you have to read the Bible more deeply to understand this. The text says that one breath of God is a 1000 man years and therefore we should not confuse God's days/years with Earth days/years. Time is relative, and as scientifically proven a clock out in space will run slower than a clock on Earth.

Answer 8

Someone sat down once (I think it was a monk or priest, but I don't remember now who it was), and went through the genealogy of the Bible - from Christ back through the begats to Adam and Eve and came up with that calculation. It is not a widely accepted or supported theory - especially given our modern scientific knowledge. Some people did believe it centuries ago, before we had the understandings that we do today. I never heard the dinosaur part...

Answer 9

Mr. Ben, your statement about clocks is only correct if one of the clocks is nearing the speed of light relative to the other. Clocks normally move at exactly the same speed in space, which is how (a) astronauts can tell the time and (b) astronauts do not return home some 1,000 years after takeoff.

Now, my answer: Apparently they do, but that's hardly the most ridiculous thing they believe (i.e. that a hyper-intelligent omnipotent being both exists and is interested in their lives.)

Answer 10

I guess some do. It just doesn't make sense to believe that since the evidence clearly shows that the earth is much older. Obviously, the concept of the world being created in 6 days was clearly a device used more as imagery than anything else.

Answer 11

It's truly amazing that Mr Blank Name Top Contributor above is willing to distort his own bible in order to provide his very bizarre chronology.

For instance, he claims that Genesis 5:11 says that Kenan was born in the year Enosh died aged 905. In fact that verse clearly says Kenan was born when Enosh was aged 90. And so on for all the rest of the chronology. That's why Blank Name gives 13,000 years of history when the rest of his fundamentalist brethren give just 6,000.

If Christians can't even be trusted to quote their own bible accurately, how can we believe anything they say?