Do you believe that that the earth is...?

Question

...6 billion (or whatever number) years old, or 6000 years old as interpreted in the Bible? Please explain your answer?

Addendum:
If you believe what the Bible says, please explain your rationale for either Old earth or Young earth.

Sorry, missed a 0. But even at 60,000 or 600,000, please explain that over 6 billion.

Answer 1

nope....there are too many faults in carbon 14 and radiometric dating....If you guys only saw how much estimation there is in these "calculations" it would astonish you........the BIBLE NEVER SAYS THE EARTH IS 6000 YEARS OLD! There is an unknown amount of time between the first and second verse.....The Earth that was created in the first verse had life on it, had things like today (dinosaurs) but then something happened (lucifer cast to earth) that completely destroyed this earth...turned it into verse two...Without form and void....we have no clue how old it is.



EDIT: RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES

It has been proven many, many times that radioactive isotopes' half life can be affected a great deal by EXTREME HEAT AND EXTREME COLD....these isotopes decay very slowly if certain parts of the material is melted, cuz it changes the density and viscosity of the molecules......do some research on both sides before you try and make a point.





EDIT:

ACID_ZEBRA
Whats your point...yea....chinese history dates back 5,000 years...so what....the 6,000 year mark is wrong, we know this, BUT, God never said that the only people he created was adam and eve....they were the first 2, and gave lineage to the jews...thats why they are in the Bible...and they were placed in the garden of eden..no others were...

wow...acid_zebra....I guess ya got me....except...I already said that the 6000 year mark is wrong...I am simply saying that its in no way 4.5 BILLION y.o....I can tell that you are one of those evolutionist buffs....and to each his own....
But wait....so you would have liked God to include ABSOLUTELY everything that has happened since the creation? come on....your argument doesnt hold water..much less a chance in a battle of logic. Take a look at the Egyptians....thousands upon thousands of years as well.....There is not a time table given...but the evolutionist time table, from which you get your estimated age of earth, is obviously flawed and wrong.


EDIT:
SUZI B
Thats a very interesting view point...never thought of it that way..

Answer 2

Many Christians thinks this earth is only 6000 yrs old, As a Christian for 37 yrs. I believe that this planet is millions & maybe even billions yrs. old. & it is all in the bible, IF PEOPLE WILL TAKE THE TIME TO READ & UNDERSTAND instead of Reading, Gen 1:28 God told Adam to Replinish the earth or to fill it up again, the samething he told Noah in Gen. 9:1, & when Adam & Eve was created, God had already put some evil angels into outer darkness to be judged at the Great white throne Judgement, so where did those angels fell, In the Beginning of the Prehistoric time frame.

Answer 3

There is substantial evidence that the Earth and the other bodies of the Solar System are 4.5-4.6 billion years old, and that the Milky Way Galaxy and the Universe are older still. The principal evidence for the antiquity of Earth and its cosmic surroundings is:

1. The oldest rocks on Earth, found in western Greenland, have been dated by four independent radiometric dating methods at 3.7-3.8 billion years. Rocks 3.4-3.6 billion years in age have been found in southern Africa, western Australia, and the Great Lakes region of North America. These oldest rocks are metamorphic rocks but they originated as lava flows and sedimentary rocks. The debris from which the sedimentary rocks formed must have come from even older crustal rocks. The oldest dated minerals (4.0-4.2 billion years) are tiny zircon crystals found in sedimentary rocks in western Australia.


2. The oldest Moon rocks are from the lunar highlands and were formed when the early lunar crust was partially or entirely molten. These rocks, of which only a few were returned by the Apollo missions, have been dated by two methods at between 4.4-4.5 billion years in age.

3. The majority of the 70 well-dated meteorites have ages of 4.4-4.6 billion years. These meteorites, which are fragments of asteroids and represent some of the most primitive material in the solar system, have been dated by 5 independent radiometric dating methods.

4. The "best" age for the Earth is based on the time required for the lead isotopes in four very old lead ores (galena) to have evolved from the composition of lead at the time the
Solar System formed, as recorded in the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite. This "model lead age" is 4.54 billion years.

5. The evidence for the antiquity of the Earth and Solar System is consistent with evidence for an even greater age for the Universe and Milky Way Galaxy. A) The age of the Universe can be estimated from the velocity and distance of galaxies as the universe expands. The estimates range from 7 to 20 billion years, depending on whether the expansion is constant or is slowing due to gravitational attraction. B) The age of the Galaxy is estimated to be 14- 18 billion years from the rate of evolution of stars in globular clusters, which are thought to be the oldest stars in the Galaxy. The age of the elements in the Galaxy, based on the production ratios of osmium isotopes in supernovae and the change in that ratio over time due to radioactive decay, is 8.6-15.7 billion years. Theoretical considerations indicate that the Galaxy formed within a billion years of the beginning of the Universe. C) Combining the data from A) and B), the "best, i.e., most consistent, age of the universe is estimated to be 14-17 billion years.

Answer 4

The earth is about 4.5 billion years old; we know this from the decay rates of very long-lasting radioactive isotopes found in various mineral deposits around the world. Scientists use numerous different types of tests, and all point to the same general timeframe.

For these tests to be wrong, either virtually everything we know about chemistry and physics has to be wrong; or you have to postulate completely ad hoc (that's "pulled out of your @ss, for those of you in Rio Linda) that your god deliberately made the world with the appearance of age...but if you're going to pre-suppose that, you might just as well say that we're all brains in a vat....

Answer 5

The Bible does not say that the earth is 6,000 years old.
The existence of God's creation of man is about 6,000 years old.
God created the earth, and everything else, long, long ago. When God was "drawling up the blue prints" so to speak, for man, satan was paying close attention. He decided, before his fall, he could create man and animal just like God could.
After his fall, when God cast him to the earth, satan gave his hand at creation. Hence, the dinasours and the first form of "human."
God left it go for a long time. Then, when God said: "ok, it's my turn" he destroyed what satan created and then created his own form of animal and human. Hence, the Adam and Eve thing. That is where the Bible comes in in reporting history.
That does not mean that the world is only 6,000 years old.

Answer 6

4.5 billion years.

This age represents a compromise between the interpretations of oldest-known terrestrial minerals – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – and astronomers' and planetologists' determinations of the age of the solar system based in part on radiometric age dating of meteorite material and lunar samples.

Interpretation of radiometric age dating of zircons suggests that the Earth is at least 4.404 billion years old. Comparing the mass and luminosity of the Sun to the multitudes of other stars, it appears that the solar system cannot be much older than those rocks. Ca-Al-rich inclusions (inclusions rich in calcium and aluminium) – the oldest known solid constituents within meteorites which are formed within the solar system – are 4.567 billion years old, giving an age for the solar system and an upper limit for the age of the Earth.

Answer 7

The Earth IS BILLIONS of years old. Genesis 1:1. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. --period--No time table is given

Answer 8

I'm going with 6 billion

Answer 9

At least 6 Billion years old .
No explanation needed just fact.

Answer 10

The earth is 6000 years old...then continue on...it is several billion years in the making...so it is much older than 6000....