Scientists were able on proving the Earth is only 10,000 years old or less?
This is a hypothetical question
2007-04-07 15:59:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's pretty much like asking if religious people would be happy if someone proved that all their supernatural beings were just advanced space aliens.
2007-04-07 16:08:15 · answer #1 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I understand your question... I would neither be happy nor sad if scientists proved that the Earth is 10,000 years old or less. I would be very anxious to begin understanding how this new "proof" stands up against all the other evidence. There would be an enormous amount of new learning that needs to happen in order for this to be a new "proof". Bring it on. New information is a good thing.
2007-04-07 23:08:34 · answer #2 · answered by HarryTikos 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To do so would fly in the face of hundreds of pieces of evidence and well established theories to the contrary, but if it could be verified with evidence and shown to be the superior, more accurate age then I would have to accept it as such.
I honestly don't how such a thing would be possible, but since you phrased it as a hypothetical, then yes. I would accept it. I would wonder what it meant for the fields of geology, chemistry, evolutionary biology and physics. Because such a discovery would literally make much of what we understand in these fields inaccurate.
I doubt very much that such a theory would be accepted at first, but if the science were sound and the data could not be refuted, then ultimately the scientific community would have no choice but to accept the findings.
2007-04-07 23:10:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I'd be delighted if conclusive proof could be found to everyone's satisfaction.
Of course, then we'd need to rethink a lot of theories and explain the previous evidence that makes the Earth much older, but then, that's what science is all about isn't it? Explanation of the facts to the best of our ability. It'd be a fascinating challenge!
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2007-04-08 07:07:36 · answer #4 · answered by Nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientific breakthrough is always interesting, and I suppose a cause for happiness -- delight might be pushing it.
Proof of a young earth would not prove the bible, though.
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2007-04-07 23:18:19 · answer #5 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That wouldn't make any sense. That would take us only into the last ice age.
I'm always happy whenever they make a new discovery. But it has to be a real discovery...not something contrived to appease Creation "Scientists".
2007-04-07 23:05:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would be happy with the Truth no matter what it was.
The evidence says that it's Billions of years old, I'm happy with that.
2007-04-07 23:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by Atheistic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come on, man. Hypotheticals have to at least be plausible.
2007-04-07 23:15:29 · answer #8 · answered by Desiree J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pointless - we already know its 4.75 billion or so years old
Thats like asking - what if we descovered that Jesus Christ actually lived in down town New York
2007-04-07 23:14:13 · answer #9 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If this is the truth, why not?
Anyway the explanation will be very difficult.
2007-04-07 23:16:32 · answer #10 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋