Christians, please explain to me...?

Question

According to the Bible (tracing the genealogy back to Adam and Eve) humans have been on earth for around 6,000 years.

Lets be nice and say 10,000 years in case Moses forgot a few people ;)

How do you explain the HUMAN remains (bones, mummies, and fossils) that are 7,000 - 100,000 years old found all over the world?

(P.S. Also keep in mind death had not entered this world until AFTER Adam and Eve sinned.)

Answer 1

Faulty calendars?

Addendum:

"Maybe you miscalculated in your carbon dating."

"I don't believe in carbon dating."

I just love it when science-challenged creationists "don't believe" in the techniques about which they are clueless. Yes, C-14 dating has an accurate upper limit of about 50K years. Don't you think the daters know that? They have an arsenal of other tools to use:

argon-argon (Ar-Ar)
fission track dating
helium (He-He)
iodine-xenon (I-Xe)
lanthanum-barium (La-Ba)
lead-lead (Pb-Pb)
lutetium-hafnium (Lu-Hf)
neon-neon (Ne-Ne)
optically stimulated luminescence dating
potassium-argon (K-Ar)
radiocarbon dating
rhenium-osmium (Re-Os)
rubidium-strontium (Rb-Sr)
samarium-neodymium (Sm-Nd)
uranium-lead (U-Pb)
uranium-lead-helium (U-Pb-He)
uranium-thorium (U-Th)
uranium-uranium (U-U)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating)

Sorry, but your ignorance and disbelief are meaningless.

Answer 2

I have always thought that evolution and Adam and Eve are easily resolved but I warn you both sides will hate me.

We know from the Bible that the Garden did not take up the whole planet. Otherwise how could Adam and Eve be sent out of the Garden and a gate put there to keep them from getting back in? So what was going on on the rest of the earth then?

We also do not know how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden. We know it was long enough for they and God to develop the habit of walking there in the afternoon. Could have been a week could have been a year could have been ten thousand years

Adam and Eve were exiled from the Garden so was the Snake. There is no mention that God kicked out any other animals so the animals we have on the planet could have easily been evolving outside the garden. Same for Dinosaurs.

Okay everybody on both sides start hating on me now

Answer 3

First off a bone is not a fossil, bones can be accurately dated because they are comprised of decaying organic matter, fossils on the other hand are comprised of rock (limestone primarily) from the materials surrounding the porous layers created by bones which can only be dated according to where they are found.

As a result, fossils are dated based on the theoretical speculation of geologic observations based on standard rates of weathering factors such as erosion. This creates a problem because it assumes the fossil was created when the observed geologic layer was the surface of the soil, which does not support the reality that organisms migrate deeper into the ground before fossilization because they must be in areas of low water and air to become fossilized which always occurs usually in or on the bedrock, or rarely in the C horizon of soil if it is comprised primarily of sand or particulates.

On top of all this there is the assumption that geologic influences from natural disasters, especially catastrophic events do not affect the surface conditions dramatically.

Answer 4

Previous calendar systems have been wrong (even with the Gregorian we have to add or subtract leap seconds every few years to match the solar year). We need to know which calendar was in use for each of those calculations (the length of a Gregorian year isn't the same as the length of a Jewish year, etc).

Also, in the genealogies in the Bible only mention ages in whole years (and Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos). We are losing partial years with every generation.

Answer 5

There were many mistakes made in trying to create the Adama. There have been many species of human on this planet. To say otherwise is hiding your head in a hole in the ground. Only the uneducated would say man did not exist before 6000 years ago. With the resources we have available to us today there is no excuse for ignorance. Peace and love>

Answer 6

I believe in the Gap theory of Genesis 1:1- 2. The Earth can be older than you or I know. And then there is the "Canopy Theory". Where things aged more rapidly because the atmosphere changed after the flood. The book of Genesis says that God created Adam, and there could have been any number of other people here on Earth.

Answer 7

Please add the details of exactly how these 'HUMAN remains (bones, mummies, and fossils) that are 7,000 - 100,000 years old found all over the earth' have been dated to that age. (Not trying to be a smarty pants, just want to know so I can answer this to the best of my knowledge.) I'll check back later =)

Answer 8

I don't think that finding some bones proves they are older than adam and eve!! Oh and by the way they found a mummy and thought it was 500,000 years old, well when they looked closer they found out it was only 2 or 3,000 years old. I rest my case!!!

Answer 9

The easy explanation is that we humans have not found an accurate dating system for fossils and such.

I can make this claim because of many proofs, but one sticks in my mind.
A poor whale fossil buried nose up, tail down. By our own human dating sytems the poor guy is millions of years older at his tail than his head.

Until we can come up with more accurate ways of dating things, we should be very careful to say with any certainty how old anything is that predates written records.

Answer 10

Which book , chapter and verse in the bible says the earth is only 6,000 years old?

Answer 11

I can explain it. I don't know why that is so. All I know is that God has reasons for everything. Why don't you pray and ask God this question. Only He can give you the answer that you want to hear. In fact I'm willing to bet my life that almost no one will give you the answer you want to hear. And by the way this is not an excuse for not knowing the answer, it's fact.