With a belief in a creation date less than ten thousand years ago is it impossible to get geological time?

Question

Like, er, dinosaur fossils all test up objectively as sixty or more million years old, and few-celled plangkton have left perfect statues of themselves in rocks half the age of the Earth itself, cuppla biwwion yeeeers, mate, their "tissue" exchanged, molecule by molecule into rock, in the fossilization process that takes millions of years in itself , sometimes.

And then there's apes to humans ....... when, over a million years ago some local band of primates behaved, in some small ways, differently ...... one thing led to another and, next thing, over hundreds of thousands of years of gradual gradual change we get humans (not sure how many species thereof)

Anyway, it all takes quite a while. So, if people already believe in a Genesis scale timespan, do the provable figures bamboozle them?

Answer 1

I guess the challenge here is to find anywhere in the Bible where it says that "Creation" was less than 10,000 years ago.

The 10,000 year date is from the 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from an interpretative reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh. "The chronology is sometimes, and often mockingly, associated with Young Earth Creationism, that holds that the universe was created only a few millenia." ago.

Answer 2

Well, first of all, carbon dating is not an exact science. It assumes that the rate of radioactive decay is consistant, but the problem is that it has already been shown to be thrown off by such things as, for instance, the material being tested being in a fire, or the levels of radioactive materials found in the vicinity.

Secondly, creations belief of a 6000 year old planet is a myth made up by evolutionists to steer people away from their lack of proof. If you go by the ages of the people as stated in the bible, they were several centuries old in some cases before they had their first child. If we assume that God created man, can we not then accept that he allowed man to live up to a thousand years (in the case of Methuselah)? In that case, people were on the earth for tens of thousands of years. Guess what, most scientists say that humans have been on this planet for only tens of thousands of years.

As for apes evolving into humans, there is no proof, and Darwin refused to make that leap in logic, and it's his theory. Yes, apes and humans share a large number of DNA. But did you know that we also share more with mice. Does that mean we come from a mouse/ape hybrid? Of course not. We are mammals, and mammals share several traits, like a four chamber heart, hair, live birth, and warm blood. Evolution explains why some primates have a prehensile tail, but it has never, in all of recorded history, lead to a creature just showing up on earth out of the blue.

Answer 3

The bible does not define a day in the creator Gods life. Therefore, it is impossible to state how long in human years that it took God to create the earth and its inhabitants. Six days to God maybe many millions of earth years. Religions older than Judaism make this point clear (see hinduism). It would be unwise to take dates given in the Torah literally. The 10,000 years date relates to the fact that modern religious practice started to be recorded about 8 to 10 thousand years BC when semetic writtings and hyroglyphs aloud for written transmission of events. Jews didn't exist as a separate tribe then. We know that the Judaens didn't make written record of their books till the fall of Isreal in 720 BCE. As recorded history back then was so inaccurate anyway, it is likly that Jewish record of history is somewhat confused in regard to timescale. For most of its early history, Jews lived under the Zoroastrian Persian Empire. Some scholars believe Judaism started off as a western branch of the state religion of the Persian empire, as evidenced by the fact that Cyrus the Great, the first king of the Persian empire, and subsequent Iranian kings funded the construction of the second temple.
Human like beings have been around for 200,000 years and early hominids perhaps as far back as 1 million years. The only way that Jewish dates can fit modern evidence is if they were recording time scale in God years and not earth solar years. This practice may have been passed down through the religions, from Hinduism, to Zoroasterism and finally to Judaism.

Answer 4

You know, its frankly disappointing to see people force such time-lines onto the Bible when it isn't warranted. Such behavior overturns the faith of many!

Please see this page and feel free to criticize if valid constructive criticism is warranted:
Subject page name: Creation Addresses the Bible's creation account
Link: http://bythebible.page.tl/Creation.htm

If you do not like to read more Biblical stuff than necessary, on page one cover just the index subjects having orange links.

On page two be sure to cover the, subjects even though a little Bible reading is presented:

* The Sun and the Light
* An Offbeat Speculation -- this link speculates on how long a creative day could be if counting from when the Sun began to shine.

Please email me with feedback if desired!

Answer 5

I don't believe in a strict 24 hour day as in Genesis. The Bible says a day is as 1000 years, and 1000 years as a day. So a day could be 1 million years.
But I don't believe man came from whatever, but was created by God.

Answer 6

Of course it is. There are probably a thousand ways to date things that come up older than 10,000 years. Heck they have tree ring maps that back further than that in several areas.

Answer 7

I don't think that the Earth is anywhere around ten thousand years old.

Do you think that all Christians believe that young earth theory.

Answer 8

The bible states a timeline? That's impossible. If what you say is true, I'm glad I'm not that religion. I prefer common sense and rationale.

Answer 9

Yours is yours to believe and mine is mine to beleive. Go to the apes and explain why they did not turn to humans like you so that you have a companion from the world of the apes.
jtm

Answer 10

Spot on, Matey! I'm wiv yoo!