the universe is 13.7 billion years old. what took god so long?

Question

for an all-powerful being, he sure took his sweet time.

Answer 1

The world evolved over that time period.

Answer 2

Hi benjaminmpharm. Actually the Bible tells us the earth is a little more than 13,000 years old. Defiantly not billions of years old.

We need to remember that that written history only goes back to about 5,200 years ago. There is no proof of anything older than that.

Some people try to rely on carbon 14 dating, the problem is, if you are using carbon 14 dating, you have to assume that the carbon reservoir remained constant all the way back through history. This cannot be proven. Their conclusion will be a guess at best.

Carbon 14 dating is very accurate up to about 13,000 years. After that it varies, and it varies wildly.

I was at a museum a while back and there was a display of dinosaur bones. The sign said the bones were between 60,000 and 100,000 years old. That's a margin of 40,000 years for mistake. That is not science.

For those who say that days or nights were thousands of hours long, that would be impossible. In Genesis 1:11-13 God tells us He created plants and fruits on the third day:

"Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so...13 So the evening and the morning were the third day."

On the forth day He created day and night. In Genesis 1:14-19 God tells us:

"Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and year...16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

Now, if the days were thousands of hours long all of the vegetation on the earth would have burned up because of all the sunlight. If the nights were thousands of hours long all of the vegetation on the earth would have died because vegetation needs light to grow, but too much sun or too much darkness will kill the vegetation. God created 4 seasons and He created 24 hour days, just like it is now.

Answer 3

Says who.... know anyone who has lived that long? Carbon dating is proven questionable. God lives in a realm of timelessness, so He does not care about days or years. The Bible tells us that to God a thousand years is as a day to God. That concept is given so we try to grasp the idea that God does not need time. Man does. We live on a world that rotates around the sun, with seasons and hours and minutes. But God lives in a spiritual realm, not a physical one alone.

Answer 4

That's how old the universe is, not how long it took God to create it.

Answer 5

According to Scientists its that old, and God can do anything in a blink of an eye. If he wants he can take his sweet time.

Answer 6

Even though I don't believe in god, I would suggest that this is the way it wanted the universe to be.

Why would god be in a hurry?

Answer 7

For one you have to believe in mans ability to come up with that time line. But if it did take Him that long I guess all i can do is thank him and praise him for thinking of me that long...

Answer 8

God does not operate within the limitations of time, so it wasn't as long as we might believe for now.

Answer 9

That's nothing compared to eternity. Your question should be why did God work so fast!

Answer 10

He was too busy tring to prove his supremacy over the other gods.