2007-07-15 14:12:51 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
ALL the evidence points to its being about 4.5 billion years old. This is not really up for debate or an opinion poll.
A small number of fundamentalist Christians, especially in the US, adhere to a belief in "young earth creation" and believe, against all the evidence, that the earth is about 6000 years old. The vast majority of Christians worldwide do not hold this bizarre notion.
2007-07-15 14:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by Sandy G 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It is widely accepted by both geologists and astronomers that the Earth is roughly 4.6 billion years old. This age has been obtained from the isotopic analysis of many meteorites as well as of soil and rock samples from the Moon by such dating methods as rubidium–strontium and uranium–lead. It is taken to be the time when these bodies formed and, by inference, the time at which a significant part of the solar system developed.
2007-07-15 15:37:28 · answer #2 · answered by Melinda 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Earth formed around 4.57 billion years ago out of the solar nebula, a disk-shaped mass of dust and gas left over from the formation of the Sun. Its only known natural satellite, the Moon, began orbiting it around 4.53 billion years ago. The age of the universe is estimated to be around 13.7 billion years old
2007-07-15 14:41:05 · answer #3 · answered by Angelina 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The earth is about 4.5 billion years old. This is well understood and supported by incontrovertible evidence.
2007-07-15 15:32:16 · answer #4 · answered by aviophage 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
About 4.5 billion years old, give or take a couple hundred million.
I was born in the late 1950s, so I wasn't around to see it happen.
2007-07-15 14:43:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
4.5 Billion Years Old
2007-07-15 14:15:58 · answer #6 · answered by A.R 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Over 4 billion years old.
The Bible says nothing about the age of Earth.
Some Englishman tried to work out the fact that the sum of the ages for a genealogy listed in one book did come close to the number of years elapsed since creation according to the Jewish chronology.
2007 (in our calendar) is the year 5767 Anno Mundi according to the Jewish Calendar presently in use.
The latest date (in our modern calendar) that has been proposed for this first day of the Jewish chronology -- because it has changed on a few occasions -- is in October 3761 BC.
However, Bede (the 7th century monk in what is now the county of Durham, in England) decided that the creation took place on 18 March 3952 BC.
The earliest date I found for a Judeo-Christian creation, is in September 5509 BC (the start of the Aetos Kosmou calendar, a Chrisitian-Byzantine chronology system).
Of course, the humans who lived a few thousand years before then and left us a record of their presence (paintings and scarce "writings" on cave walls), did not think of leaving us hints on how they counted the years before creation.
2007-07-15 15:20:29 · answer #7 · answered by Raymond 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Somewhere around 4.5 billion years old.
2007-07-16 06:43:25 · answer #8 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
around 4 billions years old.
2007-07-15 15:58:48 · answer #9 · answered by Dr. Eddie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
its 4.5 billion years old. If your a Christian its 6000 years old,only cause its in THE BOOK though, and for no real reason.
2007-07-15 14:19:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋