What is the right age of ' The Earth' ?

Answer 1

older then the bible says it is.. other then that.. does it matter?

Answer 2

It's certainly not six-thousand years old. The current estimates for the age of the Earth are around four and a half billion years. Of course, since the Earth (like the rest of the solar system) formed from a bunch of gas and dust collapsing under its own gravity, there is no definite beginning point. Did it start being the Earth after it was 90% the size it is today? 95% Who's to say?

Answer 3

The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about 4.55 billion years (plus or minus about 1%). This value is derived from several different lines of evidence.

Unfortunately, the age cannot be computed directly from material that is solely from the Earth. There is evidence that energy from the Earth's accumulation caused the surface to be molten. Further, the processes of erosion and crustal recycling have apparently destroyed all of the earliest surface.

The oldest rocks which have been found so far (on the Earth) date to about 3.8 to 3.9 billion years ago (by several radiometric dating methods). Some of these rocks are sedimentary, and include minerals which are themselves as old as 4.1 to 4.2 billion years. Rocks of this age are relatively rare, however rocks that are at least 3.5 billion years in age have been found on North America, Greenland, Australia, Africa, and Asia.

While these values do not compute an age for the Earth, they do establish a lower limit (the Earth must be at least as old as any formation on it). This lower limit is at least concordant with the independently derived figure of 4.55 billion years for the Earth's actual age.

Answer 4

About 4.6 billion years.

I thought Dawkins' take on creationism was well put:

“6,000 years is not just a little bit different from 4.6 billion years. It is so different that, dear Young Earth Creationist, it is as though you were to claim that the distance from New York to San Francisco is not 3,400 miles but 7.8 yards. Of course, I respect your right to disagree with scientists, but perhaps it wouldn’t hurt and offend you too much to be told—as a matter of deductive and indisputable arithmetic—the actual magnitude of the disagreement you’ve taken on.”

Answer 5

In order to properly answer your question, you should say what point or event do you consider to be the birth of the earth.

Answer 6

based on the moon rocks collected by nasa, and various measurements on terrestrial rocks as well the earth is about 4.6 billion years old

Answer 7

4.55 billion years old - based on the radiometric dating of meteorites.

Answer 8

4000