How can Christians believe man is only thousands of years old when we have proof from millions of years ago?

Question

Is this why science and religion don't mix? Because science proves the bible wrong?

Answer 1

Here is just a small sampling of the many physical evidences that contradict the "Billions of years"

Of the methods that have been used to estimate the age of the earth, 90 percent point to an age far less than the billions of years asserted by evolutionists. A few of them follow.

Evidence for a rapid formation of geological strata, as in the biblical flood. Some of the evidence are: lack of erosion between rock layers supposedly separated in age by many millions of years; lack of disturbance of rock strata by biological activity (worms, roots, etc.); lack of soil layers; polystrate fossils (which traverse several rock layers vertically—these could not have stood vertically for eons of time while they slowly got buried); thick layers of ‘rock’ bent without fracturing, indicating that the rock was all soft when bent; and more. For more, see books by geologists Morris26 and Austin.27

Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some (unfossilized!) dinosaur bone. But these could not last more than a few thousand years—certainly not the 65 Ma since the last dinosaurs lived, according to evolutionists.28

The earth’s magnetic field has been decaying so fast that it looks like it is less than 10,000 years old. Rapid reversals during the Flood year and fluctuations shortly after would have caused the field energy to drop even faster.29, 30

Radioactive decay releases helium into the atmosphere, but not much is escaping. The total amount in the atmosphere is 1/2000th of that expected if the universe is really billions of years old. This helium originally escaped from rocks. This happens quite fast, yet so much helium is still in some rocks that it has not had time to escape—certainly not billions of years.30

A supernova is an explosion of a massive star—the explosion is so bright that it briefly outshines the rest of the galaxy. The supernova remnants (SNRs) should keep expanding for hundreds of thousands of years, according to physical equations. Yet there are no very old, widely expanded (Stage 3) SNRs, and few moderately old (Stage 1) ones in our galaxy, the Milky Way, or in its satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. This is just what we would expect for ‘young’ galaxies that have not existed long enough for wide expansion.31

The moon is slowly receding from the earth at about 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year, and this rate would have been greater in the past. But even if the moon had started receding from being in contact with the earth, it would have taken only 1.37 billion years to reach its present distance from the earth. This gives a maximum age of the moon, not the actual age. This is far too young for evolutionists who claim the moon is 4.6 billion years old. It is also much younger than the radiometric ‘dates’ assigned to moon rocks.32

Salt is entering the sea much faster than it is escaping. The sea is not nearly salty enough for this to have been happening for billions of years. Even granting generous assumptions to evolutionists, the sea could not be more than 62 Ma years old—far younger than the billions of years believed by the evolutionists. Again, this indicates a maximum age, not the actual age.

Answer 2

The Biblle tells you about a man, and a woman that God made. Their children married somebody, probably the animals that he used as models to make the only people he ever made by hand. Later on, he made a man, a different way. Both the couple in the garden, and the man in Jerusalem had earth shaking effects on the people you mention. All but one small family of those you mention died about 4,000 years ago. The family, in a boat, lived to be our common ancestor. His name was Noah. Some think he was Enoch as well. I would like to see you write a book about what happened to the rest of the world, when your sitting on a mountain top, and everyone else is dead. Try to be objective. Don't let personal feelings, or grief cloud your scientific mind. And for God sake, don't get drunk!

Answer 3

Well you do not have proof that it is "millions" or even "billions" of years, oh don't try to explain it, I have been thoroughly steeped in the evolutionary hoax that men have perpetrated even Darwin who not altogether started the problem doubted his own intellect when coming up with his "origin of species" hogwash, and the only reason he believed in it, was the alternative was faith in God which he renounced so he believed a lie more than the truth.

Oh your so called science which is "knowledge" based on trial and error, experience and testing - tell me how can you test " the evolutionary process" in a laboratory? Think about it, use that brain that is supposed to be between your ears for something other than swallowing lies by supposedly good and honest men, you are believing someone's word for what happened, - hmmmm sounds familiar - i think that is called faith that they are telling you the truth. Faith in that that they wouldn't lie would they? They would not tell you that the facts that they have are just theoretical fancies and fantasy because to believe the alternative is what - faith in God.

Answer 4

you base your time frame knowledge on one item, carbon dating. carbon dating is not fact nor will it be fact. 2+2=4 is fact, not 5, 7, 3. carbon dating NEVER, let me repeat that, NEVER gives the same answer twice. that fact alone shows it is not a science of fact, but a science of guess.

and explain how a living snail in front of you can date to be around 14,000 yrs old. please explain how wonderful science is. see, I walked for 30 yrs in science, its hog wash. its lies based on lies based on guesses.

research how they measure the distance to a star using geometry and a triangle. well if you understand geometry you realize this cannot work. another false claim.

see, its real easy to put something in a book or to have someone say it on TV as few, if not none will actually look it up, verify it, etc. they just accept it as fact.

so that means I can get on TV and say there are pink flying elephants and that means its the truth.

Answer 5

Some nut throws elephant dung at a painting of a woman and people call it "art".

God makes some rocks that look like bones and people call it "evolution".

There is no direct evidence of evolution. There is circumstantial evidence.

There is direct evidence of God.

Where direct evidence contradicts the circumstantial evidence the direct evidence wins.

I suggest learning the basic rules of evidence.

Try education, it works.

Answer 6

I agree with your assessment, but to be fair, not all Christians take a literal interpretation of the Bible in all its parts. To say that God created man on the sixth day would suggest that man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. This is obviously absurd; however, who's to say how long a day is in God's time-frame. In any case, I believe that all religions are equally uncontaminated by evidence. As Christopher Hitchins said, "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

As for Christians who believe that the earth is only 10,000 years old, they are delusional and lack intellectual honesty and curiosity. They are more concerned with dogma than the evidence presented by the world around them. It's a shame.

Answer 7

It depends on if you take the "6 days" as a literal 6-24 hour periods or not.

Answer 8

Hasn't proved anything yet. What is your "proof"? Did someone tell you man is millions of years old? You say "proof", prove it.

Answer 9

God created all of those things as they are for us to find them. The dinosaur fossils were put there for us to find and wonder about. It is all designed to confuse us and get more money for the church since they have all the answers. Oh, I forgot. The church does not have any answers. They don't even like you asking questions.

Answer 10

The interpretation in the bible of how long things lasted is open for discussion. I'm Christian and I don't believe that a day in the bible is a man's day, nor is a year necessarily a year as we know it........