How can the Earth be 4.5 Billion years old when there is so much evidence for a young Earth?

Question

Wouldn't a young Earth line up with a Creator?

Is that really why we have to try and make it billions of years old?

What about all of the scientific evidence for a young earth?

Can you disprove any of it?

Look at the evidence:
http://www.earthage.org/youngearthev/evidence_for_a_young_earth.htm

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c012.html

http://www.freewebs.com/bibletruth/theyoungearththeory.htm

Not enough Stone Age skeletons.
Evolutionary anthropologists now say that Homo sapiens existed for at least 185,000 years before agriculture began,28 during which time the world population of humans was roughly constant, between one and ten million. All that time they were burying their dead, often with artifacts. By that scenario, they would have buried at least eight billion bodies.29 If the evolutionary time scale is correct, buried bones should be able to last for much longer than 200,000 years, so many of the supposed eight billion stone age skeletons should still be around (and certainly the buried artifacts). Yet only a few thousand have been found. This implies that the Stone Age was much shorter than evolutionists think, perhaps only a few hundred years in many areas.

Too much carbon 14 in deep geologic strata.

With their short 5,700-year half-life, no carbon 14 atoms should exist in any carbon older than 250,000 years. Yet it has proven impossible to find any natural source of carbon below Pleistocene (Ice Age) strata that does not contain significant amounts of carbon 14, even though such strata are supposed to be millions or billions of years old. Conventional carbon 14 laboratories have been aware of this anomaly since the early 1980s, have striven to eliminate it, and are unable to account for it. Lately the world's best such laboratory which has learned during two decades of low-C14 measurements how not to contaminate specimens externally, under contract to creationists, confirmed such observations for coal samples and even for a dozen diamonds, which cannot be contaminated in situ with recent carbon. These constitute very strong evidence that the earth is only thousands, not billions, of years old.

*Sigh* The usual answers. Very predictable. Evolutionists won't allow Christians the same rules as them when it comes to science.

What you can't argue is that followers of the religion of evolution study the evidence with their preconcieved opinions yet they criticize the creationist for doing the same.

Double-standard.

Answer 1

So called experts make it all up that the earth is billions of years old. There was a time when they `dated` the earth as a million years old, it keeps changing, depends what scientist wants to show his "stuff"
The scientist upstart has to prove the last scientist wrong and so on in a line, so that is why the date keeps changing.

Answer 2

Your "references" are hilarious. L. Ron Hubbard couldn't have produced better data.

The first argument on page one is that evolution scientists are wrong because they haven't agreed to do a televised debate on the topic. While we're at it, why don't we have Superman debate gravity with Isaac Newton. Which network gets the pleasure of airing this thrilling debate?

Your site alleges that Noah's flood caused the earth's oil deposits.You allege dinosaurs (or "dragons" ha ha!) were alive only 9,800 years ago citing "various laboratories in the United States and Europe" and some sort of "discussion" involving Paul LeBlond, Professor of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia.

Your second page cites facts from reputable science, and then you cleverly shoot down evolutionary theory over and over again, using the world accepted book series "Conf. on Creationism," written by Mickey Mou- I mean the Creation Science Fellowship.

Your third page lists no citations and seems to argue that creationism must exist because... what are the chances of Earth being so perfect for human life? There are countless other planets without human life. Perhaps this is one in a trillion.

Go to a real college, stop reading all this Christian propaganda, and start REALLY learning about the world around you. I know Jesus makes you comfortable because you know where you go when you die, but once you truly start to embrace facts, wisdom and true knowledge, you may be a lot happier.

Answer 3

whether you have faith that the earth is Billions of years previous or no longer would be a concern of discussion until eventually we get the possibility to ask God in heaven. on an identical time as many biblical commentaries agree in a youthful Earth the Hebrew translation of the observe day "yo?m" could be interpreted the two actually or figuratively. Figuratively the greek observe "yo?m" can propose a protracted volume of time. subsequently the which potential is figurative which potential a protracted volume of time. as a result that's possible that the earth could desire to be billions of years previous, besides the indisputable fact that in spite of the Earths age and God's equivalent the observe "day" there continues to be the reality that God created the earth and that's on it alongside with uniquely becoming each and each human beings and evolution isn't area of the equation.

Answer 4

OK, first all you sources are a faith base.
second, real science don't twist the evidence / truth like the young earth religion.
third, do some real research.

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To Bultimus, funny, I'll give you a thumbs up.

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( To keep it simple ) most of CREATIONISTS or YOUNG EARTH groups don't agree with the findings of Radiocabon Dating (carbon 14), because it can only date organic material to 40,000 years +/- 50 years; that is their case for argument; but Potassium-Argon is another form of dating which you don't hear much about from them because, it can do inorganic (like rocks or organic material that turned into fossils) up to 1.3 billion years, there is also Thermoluminescence Dating (mostly for dating volcanco).
There are other forms of Dating as well, but we won't go into that right now, even though evidence is before them, even though the five books of Moses (Gensis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) are in two other religions, the TORAH and the HEBREW BIBLE, and in some parts of the Quran, even though there are other creations stories before gensis was even thought up. Zoroastrianisn religion started in 1700-1000 BC, Hinduism religion started in 2600-1500 BC and Egyptian religion started in 4000 - 3000 BC (in general timeline not exact) The only thing the CREATIONIST and YOUNG EARTH care about is themselves and believing in old stories, which is nothing more than a fairy tale for children.

No, the world is not 10000 years old, because one of the proofs they have is a 4500 year old tree, and yes there is a very few trees in the world, at that age, but what about petrified trees or petrified forest, dated about 15 million year, young earth doesn't account natural forest fire, earth quakes, floods and droughts that could make or break a tree or forest, but petrified trees keep a record which proves young earth is wrong. How about DNA: god made man (Adam) and woman (Eve) as we are today, human beings with no common ancestor. Why is a man's DNA (Adam) 80,000 years younger than a woman's DNA (Eve), who was Eve's husband first husband, an animal/beast; or maybe it is evolution that tells the truth, and they don't want to believe it.

Source(s):
Petrified trees
http://www.waymarking.com/wm/details.aspx?f=1&guid=f519d94d-c5e4-4e86-ae86-d309d60f5390
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7396
Male and Female (Adam and Eve) DNA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/999030.stm

To Christ is the Answer…

Truth in faith is not the real truth in nature, and true science helps humans understand nature, for understanding the past, present, and for the future of mankind.

Answer 5

Just because something is on a website doesn't make it a legitimate scientific resource. The Ku Klux Klan has a website too, as does Al Queda, and Satanists - are we supposed to believe what they are saying because its on a website?

Look at it this way - the Earth is in the universe, and the universe is billions of years old. But somehow, the Earth just magically popped into existence 6,000 years ago. This does NOT make sense. Also, the 50,000 year old Aboriginal culture in Australia automatically puts it as a false statement... and the 30,000 year old cave paintings in Europe. And the fossils that are millions of years old, etc.

Your "science evidence" is religious propaganda and any serious scientist will show you why it isn't true. Sorry, try again.

Answer 6

To be honest guys, what are we doing here? Throwing theories at each other. Of course this is how all scientific (or otherwise, I guess) progress is made, there's no need to get all bitter and bent out of shape about it. Disprove each other, yeah, but I fear nobody posting questions or answers here knows for themselves, it's all parroting quotes, science books and websites at each other. That achieves nothing. Try and understand the other persons point of view before trashing it - if nothing else it adds strength to your own argument.

Answer 7

4 1/2 billion years ago, matter combined in space- forming the universe. 4 billion years ago, the first terrestrial rock was formed, weighing 1.1 grams/cubic centimeter(the moon); the first sedimentary evidence for oceans and earliest isotopic evidence for life came about 4-3.5 billion years ago, fossils and hard shelled organisms formed between 3.5 and 1 billion years, DINOSAURS existed 65 million years ago and lived for up to 160 million years before becoming extinct, and we as humans began to evolve 4 million years ago. Scientists have gone to east Africa and discovered the skeleton of a presumed female hominid: a primate belonging to our family. Pseudoscience is not good. Please do real research.

Answer 8

P. I. T. asks, "How can the Earth be 4.5 Billion years old when there is so much evidence for a young Earth?"

Gee, P.I.T., what you present as evidence isn't 'evidence' at all, it is Fundy ignorance. That this tactic is commonplace amongst the Fundies makes every reasonable R&S participant stop and wonder. Golly, you guys do make it easy for unbelievers to respond to the Fundy lies hurled constantly at us. Thanks!

Answer 9

so many people get stuck on the fact that the bible says the earth was created in 6 "days" and that the bible is only 6,000 years old... but i don't think the bible says that at all... the word "Day" in Hebrew is yo hm and it translates into a period of time, seasons. So this can mean it could be a 24 hour period or a thousand year period. So to me the six creative days are really six creative periods... and that explains why the earth older than 6000 years

Answer 10

You ARE kidding right?

Can you provide one link to a site from a reputable source ( such as a geology department at a university or a scientifically reviewed journal ) and not a lying creationist one.

I thought not? Anyone can make up an internet site and fill it with lies.

Answer 11

There is no scientific evidence that supports a young earth. Any "evidence" that it does is based upon faulty science developed by those that seek to make history and geology match up to their fairy tales - not the other way around.

Honestly, do you think the age of the earth is a conspiracy to disprove your God? Dont you think that, if the idea was to discredit your God, we'd give the credit to someone else's God??